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Colorado Springs-area events calendar: Wednesday, June 20
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Here’s a look at what’s going on Wednesday in the Colorado Springs area: FESTIVALS Through Aug. 12: Colorado Shakespeare Festival — The nation’s second-oldest Shakespeare festival, Boulder; denver.org. MUSIC Kaleo — With Anderson…
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The Broadmoor hotel: A timeline
June 29, 1918: On a site that was once a corn and wheat farm, then a dairy farm and later a casino, Philadelphia entrepreneur Spencer Penrose, who made his fortune in gold and copper mining, formally opens The Broadmoor hotel at the foot of Cheyenne Mountain. Cost: About $2 million. 1925: Penrose purchases and modernizes…
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A pair of ice queens transformed the Broadmoor into a winter sports mecca
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A brief history of sports – skating, hockey, golf, tennis and the Hill Climb – at The Broadmoor. Ice skating In 1937, Spencer Penrose watched Sonja Henie skate, and the moment altered the future of…
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The History. The People. The Stories. The Broadmoor at 100 years
“In the future,” Andy Warhol opined once, “everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes.” Colorado knows a secret: That future has already arrived at The Broadmoor, where everyone who visits for 15 minutes or stays 15 days is treated like a world-famous celebrity. “This is like a city, a magic island,” said Jack Forrest,…
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Anybody who’s anybody: The Broadmoor’s celebrity guests
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Presidents, movie stars, athletes, comedians. Anybody who’s anybody has rested their head upon a Broadmoor pillow. And the Wall of Fame near the bowling alley Play in The Broadmoor West building boasts many of their…
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The hog days, silverware in the swill, and a buried tusk in the fairway
Some time ago, during the early years of The Broadmoor, Spencer Penrose decided the hotel produced too much waste and his costs were much higher than acceptable. An impatient man, he decided to take the bull – or more precisely the hog – by the horns and started a pig farm. It was located in…
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The History. The People. The Stories. The Broadmoor at 100 years
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save “In the future,” Andy Warhol opined once, “everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes.” Colorado knows a secret: That future has already arrived at The Broadmoor, where everyone who visits for 15 minutes or…
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Colorado Springs a tale of two towns: Palmer vs. Penrose
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It’s probably safe to say Spencer Penrose was a man accustomed to getting what he wanted, and on that fateful, apocryphal, night in 1890-something Colorado Springs, what “Speck” Penrose wanted was a drink. He’d come…
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Colorado Springs-area events calendar: Wednesday, June 20
Here’s a look at what’s going on Wednesday in the Colorado Springs area: FESTIVALS Through Aug. 12: Colorado Shakespeare Festival — The nation’s second-oldest Shakespeare festival, Boulder; denver.org. MUSIC Kaleo — With Anderson East, 7 p.m., Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, $39.50-$65; AX.Chicago and REO Speedwagon — 7:30 p.m., Pepsi Center, Denver, $20-$199.50; AT. Springs Contemporary…
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Colorado parents of epileptic kids wary of 1st USDA pot-derived medicine
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save COLORADO SPRINGS — A British pharmaceutical company is getting closer to a decision on whether the U.S government will approve the first prescription drug derived from the marijuana plant, but parents who for years have used cannabis to treat severe forms of epilepsy in their…