Old CU

  • Simon Guggenheim
    Most of the buildings on CU鈥檚 old quad are named for past CU presidents, faculty, deans and regents. Then there鈥檚 Guggenheim.
  • old homecoming window display
    From the 1920s and through the 1950s, a window-display mastermind joyfully created spectacular scenes in his hardware store on what is now the Pearl Street Mall.聽
  • ralphie cover
    It wasn鈥檛 much to look at, but it was the start of a CU 麻豆影院 institution. The first issue of this magazine appeared as The Colorado Alumnus in May 1911.
  • Tulagi
    During winter break 1971, around Christmas, a disheveled band took the Tulagi鈥檚 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 CU 麻豆影院 campus.
  • Ellison's Ball
    On the third floor of Old Main, encased in glass in an exhibition hall chronicling CU 麻豆影院鈥檚 distinguished history in space, there鈥檚 a football with 鈥淐olorado鈥 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
    麻豆影院鈥檚 first nonprofit community FM station, 88.5 KGNU, began broadcasting in 1978.
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