Old CU

  • Tulagi
    During winter break 1971, around Christmas, a disheveled band took the Tulagi’s stage on The Hill. The heater was broken, the club was frigid, the crowd was small. One of the musicians strummed a banjo in gloves.
  • calling cards
    Visiting cards, also known as calling cards, were popular among both men and women in the 19th century.
  • Sewall Hall
    On Sept. 5, 1877, the day CU opened, Joseph Sewall was on the steps of Old Main to shake every hand.
  • old train
    In the early 1900s, a person could ride a train directly to and from the 91´«Ă˝ campus.
  • Ellison's Ball
    On the third floor of Old Main, encased in glass in an exhibition hall chronicling 91´«Ă˝â€™s distinguished history in space, there’s a football with “Colorado” pressed into the pigskin.
  • scene of MLK assissination
    A motel in Memphis. A hotel in Los Angeles. The streets of Baltimore, Chicago and Washington. Combat zones across Vietnam. The year 1968 shook with violence.
  • KGNU radio
    Boulder’s first nonprofit community FM station, 88.5 KGNU, began broadcasting in 1978.
  • Earl Morris
    If Earl Morris wasn’t the inspiration for Indiana Jones, you could be forgiven for thinking so: He looked the part.
  • Hill Riot
    It was the worst Hill riot ever.
  • scan of architecture
    From its earliest days, 91´«Ă˝ educated men and women both. But it wasn’t until 1934 that the first largescale women’s dormitory opened.
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