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Photo postcard of Borgmann’s Brown Cabin Café and Wee Nook Art and Novelty Shop, Evergreen, CO, ca. 1920’s.

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Post published:November 21, 2021
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The Brown Cabin Café was owned and operated by Herman and Elizabeth (Williams) Borgmann, both natives of Missouri. Herman and “Betsy,” as she was called, were married in Kansas City,…

Photo of Postal Telegraph manager Lily Gibbs with crew and truck in front of the Hotel Graham, Third St., Sterling, CO, ca. 1930’s.

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Post published:November 18, 2021
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The Postal Telegraph Company had its beginnings in the Commercial Cable Company. The latter was founded in 1884 by mining tycoon John William Mackay and newspaper publisher James Gordon Bennett,…

Photo postcard view of Palisade, CO, with Mt. Lincoln in the background, ca. 1912.

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Post published:November 18, 2021
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The word “palisades” refers to a line of cliffs, and one look at the striking vertical backdrop in the photo explains the name given to the town of Palisade. (When…

Photo of horse-drawn school buses, Fruitvale, CO, ca. 1910- 1917. (Photo by Starks & Hayden, Grand Junction)

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Post published:October 24, 2021
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Fruitvale is an unincorporated community located close to Grand Junction and now part of the Grand Junction Metropolitan Statistical area. Its name, and those of neighboring towns in the Grand…

Welcome to my blog of old Colorado photos. I’ve always loved old photos, and given my interest in history, it was probably inevitable that I would be drawn to the idea of collecting old images of the Colorado town where I grew up, i.e., Fort Lupton. Fort Lupton sits on the South Platte River, about halfway between Denver and Greeley, at the western edge of the Great Plains.

I grew up feeling more connected to the eastern half of the state than to the western half. Maybe that was because I knew the plains were just out the back door of Fort Lupton, so to speak, or simply because I was more familiar with the names of towns to the east. So, a few years ago, when I decided to expand my collecting beyond Fort Lupton, I leaned east. Since then, though, I’ve gotten the bug for expanding my collection to the entire state. You'll find that, in its current state, my blog is weighted toward images of Fort Lupton, eastern and northern Colorado, but that will shift as I steadily add images from the Colorado Rockies and western slope.

I hope you enjoy my blog as much as I enjoy building and tending to it. Please feel free to leave comments!

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Jack’s Old Photos of Colorado

Blog

PEOPLE AND PLACES

Jack’s Old Photos of Colorado

Blog

PEOPLE AND PLACES

Calhan, CO

Jack’s Old Photos
of Colorado

Jack’s Old Photos
of Colorado