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All Black and White Photos Courtesy of the Pikes Peak Library District. Photos may be viewed on the Library Web Site at: http://www.ppld.org.. Click on special collections, enter City Auditorium, in box asking what you want to look at. When photos are displayed, you will be able to click on each one to enlarge the picture for more detail. If you don't have a library card, get one. This is a wonderful resource for Colorado Springs.
Colorado Springs City Auditorium circa 1920s,
Photo Gift of Gordon Sweet Estate
Colorado Springs City Auditorium 1960
Stewarts Commercial Photographers
Entrance to City Auditorium circa 1923, Photographer: Standley, Harry L.
Gift of Gordon Sweet Estate
Lobby 1923, Photographer: Standley, Harry L.
Gift of Gordon Sweet Estate
Hand Painted mural (from City Govt. site) Two New Deal Era projects are being updated with the use of grant funds. The El Pomar Foundation and the Gay and Lesbian Fund for Colorado are funding the conservation of two wall murals painted in the City Auditorium. The murals were a project of the Works Progress Administration and were painted by two locally known artists – Archie Musick and Tabor Utley. Located in the lobby of the Auditorium, the murals have been exposed to years of dust, smoke and exhaust. The conservation treatment involves cleaning the murals, stabilizing cracking paint and repainting chipped areas. The conservation treatment will ensure the protection of these classic works of art for decades to come.
Committee meeting room, now the Cafe
Photographer: Standley, Harry L., Gift of Gordon Sweet Estate
View of auditorium from the stage, with the floor
set up for a concert, with portable seats.
Note: Front rail of orchestra pit, at the edge of the stage, and
windows, in back, above the balcony. The large squares in the
ceiling, are skylights.The ceiling is made of braided horsehair,
which was an early form of acoustic control.
The door, on the left center of the loges, is
where the elephants and other performing animals, at the Shrine
Circus, came in to the auditorium. There are still special steel
braces, in the ceiling, where the trapeze artists connected their
equipment.
Photographer: Standley, Harry L., Gift of Gordon Sweet Estate
1925 Autumn Exposition - Building was 2 years old.
Farm, grain and feed show, with live chickens, in cages. Rabbits
were also displayed.
The Auditorium has had many uses in addition to Performing Arts.
Photographer: Standley, Harry L.
Gift of Gordon Sweet Estate
National JC Convention 1949
Photographer: Stewarts Commercial Photographers
Christmas &
Holiday Banquet December 8th, 1953
Note Garlands along balcony and evergreen trees in foreground.
Photographer: Stewarts Commercial Photographers
The following three pictures are of Cars that were on display at City Auditorium. Various models are shown, from time to time. In 2006, there was an antique automobile show, with 50 cars, dating from a 1901 Oldsmobile, Curved Dash automobile, to cars in the '50s and '60s. This was through the efforts of the members of the Veterans Antique Car Collectors Club of America, as a fundraiser for the Friends of the Historic Colorado Springs City Auditorium Inc. They raised over $ 4, 200 and it may become an annual event.
1956 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty Special, originally built for J.
Edgar Hoover, now owned by Thomas M.O'Boyle
1948 Chevrolet
1941 Buick 4 door Convertable, owned by Bob Wade
Console of the1927 Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Pipe Organ installed
in the City Auditorium, in 1976, rescued from the Chief (Burns)
Theatre before it was demolished. A VHS Tape, "The Chief
Theatre Wurlitzer" may be taken home for viewing from the
library.
Gulbransen piano used for programs, donated to the City
Auditorium by New Hope Baptist Church
Recent Sacklunch Serenade - Part of the Audience. In right foreground, Jeanne Long, the Voice of the event lady on AM 1530 KCMN. At end of table, Grace Taylor.The rest of the folks are all friends of each other and City Auditorium.July 2007.
http://www.historiconline.org/photos.html Updated October 5, 2007