Colorado things of the past ... Across the state

Stratton's Independence, Governor "Billy" Adams poses on a Harley,

Main street of Creede, Duffy's Bar, Denver, The North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).

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W.S. Stratton's Independence
Date: ca. 1902
Photographer: unknown
Man wearing striped shirt, work pants with suspenders and cap leaning against steam-powered hoist equipment inside the Independence Mine. Title and "642" written on bottom of print.
Location: Victor (Colo.)
Carl Mathews Collection, Pikes Peak Library District

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Governor "Billy" Adams poses on a Harley Davidson motorcycle in front of the state Capitol. When he was 17, Adams moved to Alamosa, Colorado. As a Democrat, He was later elected to City Treasurer, then Mayor of Alamosa, and later as Conejos County commissioner. In 1886, he was elected to the Colorado General Assembly as a member of the Colorado House of Representatives. In 1888, he was elected to the Colorado Senate where he served until 1926, when he was elected as Governor of Colorado. He served from January 11, 1927 – January 10, 1933. In 1921, during his term as Colorado Senate Senator, Adams received approval on a bill that formed Alamosa State Normal School in Alamosa, Colorado. The college’s name was later changed to Adams State Teachers College in honor of its founder and finally to its present name Adams State University. Adams died on February 4, 1954, in Alamosa, Colorado, at the age of ninety-two, where he is buried.

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Production. Lead. Main street of Creede, Colorado. Creede, for many years a "ghost town," has resumed the activities that made it an important lead-producing center years ago, and is now producing much metal vitally needed for the war effort
Contributor Names
Feininger, Andreas, 1906-1999, photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
Created / Published
1942 Dec.
Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-And-White Negatives

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Duffy's Bar, Denver
Credit: Denver Public Library Special Collections
Creator: Whitacre, Roger
Date:[1980-1990?]
Donor: Roger Whitacre
A Renaissance Revival style building at 1635 Court Place (built 1910) in downtown Denver, Colorado; features include ornamental brick and a cornice, corbels, blind oculus ornamentation and brackets. Neon sign reads: "Duffy's Restaurant Bar." A truck and station wagon are parked. The St. Patrick’s tradition was reportedly revived in 1962, when Denver Post columnist Red Fenwick and his “Evil Companions Club” staged a march.
“Witnesses claim it was a short march: the paraders walked out of Duffy’s Shamrock Restaurant, went around the block, and back to the bar,” according to the Post.
By 1974, the revived Denver March 17 celebration was claiming it was the second largest parade in the U.S.

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The North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) was established and activated at the Ent Air Force Base on September 12, 1957. This command is a bi-national organization, of Canadian and United States Air Defense Command units, in accordance with NORAD Agreements first made on May 12, 1958. In the late 1950s, a plan was developed to construct a command and control center in a hardened facility as a Cold War defensive strategy against long-range Soviet bombers,ballistic missiles, and a nuclear attack.
In 1957, the Strategic Air Command began construction in New England inside Bare Mountain for a hardened bunker to contain the command post for the 8th Air Force, which was located at nearby Westover Air Force Base, Chicopee, Massachusetts. This underground facility was nicknamed "The Notch" (or formally as the 8th AF "Post-Attack Command and Control System Facility, Hadley") and was hardened to protect it from the effects of a nearby nuclear blast and designed so that the senior military staff could facilitate further military operations. Four years later, construction at Cheyenne Mountain was started to create a similar protection for the NORAD command post. Cheyenne Mountain was excavated under the supervision of the Army Corps of Engineers for the construction of the NORAD Combat Operations Center beginning on May 18, 1961, by Utah Construction & Mining Company.
The Space Defense Center and the Combat Operations Center achieved full operational capability on February 6, 1967. The total cost was $142.4 million. Its systems included a command and control system developed by Burroughs Corporation. The electronics and communications system centralized and automated the instantaneous (one-millionth of a second) evaluation of aerospace surveillance data.[The Space Defense Center moved from Ent AFB to the complex in 1965.The NORAD Combat Operations Center was fully operational April 20, 1966. The Space Defense Command's 1st Aerospace Control Squadron moved to Cheyenne Mountain then. The following systems or commands became operational between May and October, 1966: The NORAD Attack Warning System, Combat Operations Command,and Delta I computer system, which recorded and monitored every detected space system.