A while back, I posted some great vintage postcards that my Grandpa sent to my Grandma before they were married. These were written during his trek through Colorado with his brother Virgil during the Summer of 1937. Below are some photos taken during the trip. Most interesting are shots taken at the grave of “Buffalo Bill” Cody – proving once and for all that I am not the first family member fascinated by ‘famous graves’ and having my picture taken in front of historical monuments.
Grandpa and the grave of Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill’s Monument
Atop Pike’s Peak
Virgil and an interesting landscape
Grandpa and the Pike’s Peak Railway, early morning Wednesday, August 18, 1937
Grandpa poses with a bear, presumably – and hopefully – stuffed
Virgil and the same bear
During their trip to Colorado Springs and Pike’s Peak, Grandpa and Virgil visited the Garden of the Gods and snapped the photo below of Grandpa with Balanced Rock.
Nearly fifty years later – in the Spring of 1986 – his grandchildren Denise and I visited the Garden of the Gods as well. Although I didn’t have the good sense to actually get in a photo of Balanced Rock, Denise and my Mom did. Although taken from a slightly different angle, as one obsessed with ‘then-and-now’ images, I find it interesting to compare the photos of the same tourist attraction taken fifty years apart.
If you look in the group of slides from Colorado in 1959, you’ll see a picture of me at the Balanced Rock.
Dad
May 12th, 2007
The great inter-generational Balanced Rock gap has finally been bridged with this shot of my Dad and Bill from ’59…followed by an additional – and sharper – image of my Grandpa from ’37.
Brad
May 13th, 2007