Archive for Ephemera
Royal Gorge Brochure 1950s
Royal Gorge brochure from the 1950s. I like the drawing of the two girls taking a picture of the sharp looking Ranger. Someone named Chief Foggy Bird and his wife Corn Blossom are part of the entertainment. Pure-blood Pueblo Indians, they do dances for the tourists. Entrance is 90 cents for adults, 48 cents for kids over 7.
Pike’s Peak Region and Colorado Springs Business Brochure 1970s?
This is a cool tri-fold brochure for the Pikes Peak area from sometime in the 1970s I’m guessing. You could get a hamburger from Ivy’s for 15 cents. They had dog racing in Colorado Springs, I wonder if they still do. I’ve been there several times and never heard of it. I think I have brochures from Ghost Town and Santa’s Workshop that might get posted later. If anyone has any memories or connections to any of these businesses, I’d love to hear about it in the comments.
Colorado Petrified Forest Dinosaur Brochure
Petrified Forest brochure. I’ve got another that looks exactly the same, but the entrance location lists a different highway.
Pall Mall Cigarette Atlas
Pall Mall Cigarettes/Rand McNally road atlas for the United States and southern Canada. This is some kind of advertising for gas stations I guess suggesting that they use outdoor cigarette machines. Outdoor machines are not used now because kids can buy from them with no ID check, but they used to be everywhere. No date on the atlas, but the info on the “new” interstate system is interesting. The system was proposed in 1956, but not much was built for several years after.
Greensburg, KS and the World’s Largest Hand-Dug Well 1950s
If you’ve driven through Kansas you’ve seen the signs for the World’s Largest Hand-Dug Well. And it’s huge. And it’s dug by hand, not drilled or machine dug. We are hardy folk in Kansas and we like our water. While there, you get to see the Pallasite Meteorite, which conveniently rhymes.
Cave of The Winds 1950s Brochures
Cave of the Winds, Manitou Springs, Colorado. This is a tri-fold brochure so feel free to print it out on double sided paper kids! I’m guessing 1950s or 1960s. I like this little bit in the corner:
