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Mon, 05 Apr 2010 04:02:19 +0000

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The Big Something» Then & Now: Portraits of Urban Renewal — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:24:48 +0000

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By: Amber Cote

Amber Cote — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:23:21 +0000

Heart-breaking, truly. I’m glad Myron captured these stunning images so we can know what we’ve lost.

By: KRCC: The Big Something

KRCC: The Big Something — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:01:56 +0000

[...] of the Historic City Auditorium website was installed in in 1976 after having been saved from the Burns Theatre before it was leveled. The lunettes in its foyer also house two exquisite WPA-era murals by local Broadmoor Academy [...]

By: Jim H.

Jim H. — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:01:33 +0000

The Chief was an architectural wonder. But what about the destruction of the Antlers, Giuseppe’s at the Rex, the Ute, and the Out West? Where are these pathetic, short-sided morons now that took our history? Downtown deserves the bars and panhandlers!!!!!!

By: KRCC: The Big Something

KRCC: The Big Something — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:04:54 +0000

[...] all the response we got to our slideshow of Myron Wood photographs depicting the demolition of the Burns Theatre last week (thank you Pikes Peak Library District!), synchronicity synchronized (as it is wont to) [...]

By: Ginger Morgan

Ginger Morgan — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:08:17 +0000

What a loss. Our sense of what is valuable can be so short sighted and — too often — driven by greed. I am sad for us all.

By: suesun

suesun — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:31:13 +0000

I can’t stop the tears from coming… to be moved so by photos of a place I never knew.

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:24:07 +0000

I’ll never forget waiting in a line that wrapped around the corner and down Cascade avenue with my older sisters to see A HARD DAYS NIGHT in the 1960s. I loved the Cheif Theater. I always sat in the balcony and I would watch the always empty VIP boxes by the stage, believing that the Phantom of the Opera lived there. Later, when I learned that the Burns Theater was the was one ot the first venues where Lon Chaney Sr. performed, I knew I was right about the Phantom. I left Colo Springs in 1971. Had I been there when they began demolition, I would have sat at the front entrance to stop them. It is a tragedy that we lost such a wonderful piece of our local history. These excellent photos are all we have left.

By: Gina Dellinger

Gina Dellinger — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:20:11 +0000

It brought tears to my eyes to see these photographs again. I remember going to the Chief Theatre as a child. My parents would drop off my siblings and I to see the matinee while they went shopping downtown. What flights of fancy we imagined while being inside such a glorious place!

I have never parked in what replaced the Burns Opera House out of principle. Such narrow-minded vision is abundant in the downtown area … remember the Ute Theatre?

I have high hopes for the restoration of the Mining Exchange building … we must be ever vigilant.