Twenty thousand souls. Growing nicely, according to Wikipedia, due to its recreation opportunties. Not the same as factory jobs, but I can't speak for the locals. The John WAyne version of True Grit was filmed in and arond here.

Don’t be fooled:

They’re not all original letters. Brewery is new. Well, newer.

Still, a good omen! Something old, with old signs, but in current use. Let’s see if that’s the case for the rest of the town.

Hmm: I don’t have a picture of the building to which this is affixed, for some reason.

But I’ll bet it was THE Coors or someone in his line. It is Colorado, after all.

Well, that’s an utter mess of a building.

And I don’t think it was better before the second floor was hit with the siding stick.

Handsome and stolid, with some muscular columns. Very Masonic.

The lower floor got a 50s / 60s overhaul - probably 60s, if I had to go by the stone. Not a wise move.

As I always say: I’d prefer a downtown with lots of signs and few trees. Beautiful polychrome upper area, but who can see if from the main street?

As I said before, a hand in front of the paparazzi's lens.

It’s like some alien board game

Nice enough. The colors work. The silly little cornice vases survived, too!

Is that a 50s-style thin irregular brick renovation around the doo on the right? If so, why?

Thank you Mr. Tree for helping the International Order of Odd Fellows’ HQ location secret

fter trimming, or in the winter.

The World’s Fair / Rexall colors!

Jeebus Crow

The glass bricks are okay. The angle, the irregular stone: nice. The back-to-nature Euell Gibbons wood: awful

OUMB, which really stretches out.

On the right: looks like those pre-poured stone-brick things that say “on the cheap.”

Basketball players hotel on the right. The ground floors are equal, as is the space between first and second; wonder if the building on the right came later and they wanted to outdo the neighbor.

Good LORD that’s a lot of gummint

Looks like you could lead a ceremonial parade up the steps for the purpose of human sacrifice.

That’s just sad.

The upper floor looks like it’s peering at you with distrust.

The other side. It’s a substantial property with a storied history, no doubt - I want to know about that driveway and bay, for example. Really not crazy about the upper floor windows. Too crabbed.

There are men eligible for Medicare who remember going downtown with Mom and seeing this sign.

Snort

Three theaters! Cinematreasures:

The Fox Theater opened on October 31, 1929 (just days after the Wall Street stock market collapse). It was a single screen theatre with 789 seats. It was designed in a splendid Moorish/Eastern style by architects Dick Dickson and Montana S. Fallis of Denver, CO. Externally, it has an ‘onion’ dome and a minaret, both of which survive today despite modifications to the lower part of the facade. Internally, the original decoration would not have been out of place in a mosque.

The two flanking theaters used to be retail.

From an old movie magazine, which called it “a very pure adaptation of Moslem architecture.”

Yeeeeah, I don’t know about that.

Wonder if I can upscale them.