Beautiful landmark Art Deco Glen Huntington Bandshell in Central Park, Boulder, Co from 1938

Often casually overlooked, this is a stunning compound arch design, which Huntington modeled after the Hollywood Bowl

Huntington worked in a variety of styles, building many houses in Boulder and Denver, including two great Denver Prarie-Style homes, along with the Art Deco Boulder Courthouse

Many musical acts have played here, including Tommy Bolin, Colorado’s equivalant of Jimi Hendrix

30s era Art Moderne design, combining horizontal lines of Streamline Modern, with the vertical Art Deco tower

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A day out at Bandimere Speedway dragstrip in Morrison, Colorado, a stones throw from Red Rocks Ampitheater. This year is Bandimere’s 50th anniversary!

I came by to check out a car show, the Hot Rod Happening.

These first pics in this post are rat rods, and likely very expensive ones at that!

The rustication and untreated metal look is, of course, quite intentional!

I came out fairly early, so this picture is of a time trial, that is why there is no one in the stands yet. Most everyone was in the pit checking out hot rods!

And it is always a treat to watch flathead inlines!

Bandimere Speedway, Morrison, Colorado

On this day they were doing Quick 16s, Fast 16s, Flathead Inlines, and a Hot Rod Happening

Bandimere Speedway is one of the highest altitude dragstrips in the country

Lucky for us here in the Denver area, we have a mountain dragstrip right near by!

Bandimere Speedway is located on the other side of Dakota Ridge from Red Rocks Ampitheater, just outside the town of Morrison.

The track is 50 years old this year. They keep threatening to relocate it, but I am glad it has managed to stay exactly where it is (10 minutes from my house!)

I popped over to Bandimere to catch the 50th anniversary Hot Rod Happening this last Sunday.

I was hoping to start posting pictures on Sunday night, but I took a lot more photos than I thought, and it took me this long to wade through them all.

For this first page I am concentrating on the 50s & 60s cars, then I will move on to the 30s & 40s and some really wild rat rods!

» First off, an incredible panoramic photo of the Big Apple. Where did they set the tripod?

» Construction photos of the Structural Expressionist masterpiece of the Victorian era, the Eiffel Tower, and more photos here

» And for the Beijing Olympics, a beautiful HDR construction photo of the landmark CCTV Tower Building

» Videos of the planned Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid of Tokyo, which will apparently build itself with robots!

» An oddity, the Namba Parks Shopping Center in Osaka, Japan

» The stunning Malaysian Sky Bridge

» I am 6 foot, 4 inches tall, so I hate flying as it is so uncomfortable, but maybe if I was flying on A380 Airliner of Signapore Airlines I wouldn’t have any complaints

» Buildings of the future may just merely be Printed on inkjet-type printers. Guess they will have someone standing by feeding it cartridges

» And to finish this off, some fun videos of the amazing DB Fletcher Capstan Ilona Expanding Table and here

» One last fun video of an interesting design, the Walking Table

Outstanding 1970 design by Boulder architect Charles Haertling

Haertling did very few buildings in Denver, yet did 20 or 30 in Boulder

Many Boulder-ites attribute his Boulder buildings to Frank Lloyd Wright, but there are no Wright buildings in the state. None. Trust me. Anyone that tells you otherwise is mistaken.

I was in the nieghborhood last weekend and was alarmed to see that the new owner was constructing a fence on the property, obstructing the views seen in the photos above.

But. . . the severity of the fence fits perfectly with the “brutalist” style of the original design, so kudos to the new owner, job well done!

Art Deco design by Richard Crowther

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Lakeside Amusement Park celebrates it’s 100 year anniversary this year! It is one of the oldest still-standing amusement parks in the country. It just opened for the season this last Memorial Day weekend.

Lakeside was built in 1908 as White City in the Beaux-Arts style of the World’s Exposition Fair of 1893. It resides in it’s own city of Lakeside, CO, just outside of Denver.

The Tower of Jewels is decorated with 16,000 light bulbs. It is sometimes referred to as The Casino Tower, as Lakeside once housed a casino.

You can still see traces of the Casino Theatre signage on the front east side of the main building.

The Casino Theatre once had a prison theme, where patrons would be served drinks in tin cups, and a mock prison band would play music behind bars!

This wonderful historic park is still family owned and run by the Krasner family. Benjamin Krasner bought the park in the 1930s and gave it a wild Art Deco makeover, with the aid of renowned architect Richard Crowther.

One of Richard Crowther’s beautiful Art Deco Moderne ticket booths.

Lakeside Amusement Park is very inexpensive to visit. A nominal $2.50 entry fee gets you into the park! And to me, that is quite a bargain to enjoy all this history!

The Streamline Moderne style of the Auto Skooter bumper cars.

One of the joys of Lakeside is that they take pride in their history and retain as much of the parks historic past as possible.

The Skoota bumper boats

Richard Crowther’s designs are famous for their imaginative use of neon lighting. I’ll post night time shots of Lakeside as soon as the weather cooperates!

Richard Crowther also designed the cylindrical Cooper Cinerama Theatre on Colorado Avenue, which is now repurposed as an electronics store, I believe.

Lakeside’s Merry Go Round is one of the parks most interesting features.

It is made up of four rows of salvaged animals from many different carousels, making it one of the most unique Merry-Go-Rounds you will ever see. . .

goats, pigs, bears, pink rabbits. . .

green rabbits, dogs, mules, black pigs. . .

and finally a Knight’s Templar horse

Art Deco design by Richard Crowther

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