I always wonder when I see old news footage on YT if people recognize themselves or people they know . No one was expecting to ever see this footage again . Its been 57 years.
Wow - Steve, thank you for this. A lovely reminder of my youth. Loved the creaky wooden floors in many of the old shops... Valentine Hardware was my favorite!
Humans eventually destroy everything, including the great city of Boulder. Perhaps in 50 years some will reflect back on 2021 and say these were the "good old days". Who knows.
I was thinking something similar. I grew up in north Denver and Boulder was a very different place back in the day. In '71 a friend and I went to a small music venue in Boulder and saw ZZ Top when they released their first album, and that night was one I'll always remember. I was sitting maybe 15' directly in front of Billy Gibbons' Marshal amps and I my ears were ringing for three days afterward. The last time I was there was a good 20 years ago and I didn't like what it had become even then so I never went back.
Thanks for posting this Steve, BHS '65 here, first came to Boulder in the real early '50s, but we settled there in '57...great seeing Pearl Street panning east from Broadway again, the Dart Store at 0:50 was a Kress store when I roamed that downtown area as a child. Used to sit in the corner window of Woolworths and read the comic books...Bought my first real tool at Valentine's Hardware, seen in the background of the opening shot, a 10 inch Crescent wrench...Boulder was a magical place to be a kid back in the '50s and '60s.
Hi there! This is so neat to see! I am working on a Documentary of the The Sink through the years and would love to connect and see if I could use a few clips and give you credits on it?
This had to have been the Fifties not 1967. I was a Denverite in 1967 and went to CU in 1970 and Boulder was not like this by then. CU was at the height of hippiedom in the late 60s.
The man demonstrating and selling scarf clips in the first scene is my dad. What an amazing surprise to find here!
You related to Ann Beck by any chance?
@@BoulderMamacita She's my mom.
It's really a small world. Glad I posted this.
That is so cool! I would love to find random unseen clips of my father back in the day.
I always wonder when I see old news footage on YT if people recognize themselves or people they know . No one was expecting to ever see this footage again . Its been 57 years.
Wow - Steve, thank you for this. A lovely reminder of my youth. Loved the creaky wooden floors in many of the old shops... Valentine Hardware was my favorite!
Back when downtown Boulder was an actual town, with actual stores that sold items people both wanted and needed. Back before it sold it's soul.
Humans eventually destroy everything, including the great city of Boulder. Perhaps in 50 years some will reflect back on 2021 and say these were the "good old days". Who knows.
I was thinking something similar. I grew up in north Denver and Boulder was a very different place back in the day. In '71 a friend and I went to a small music venue in Boulder and saw ZZ Top when they released their first album, and that night was one I'll always remember. I was sitting maybe 15' directly in front of Billy Gibbons' Marshal amps and I my ears were ringing for three days afterward. The last time I was there was a good 20 years ago and I didn't like what it had become even then so I never went back.
I remember many of those stores....especially the signs.
Thanks for sharing this, I always wondered what it looked like before it was a walking mall.
Thanks for posting this Steve, BHS '65 here, first came to Boulder in the real early '50s, but we settled there in '57...great seeing Pearl Street panning east from Broadway again, the Dart Store at 0:50 was a Kress store when I roamed that downtown area as a child. Used to sit in the corner window of Woolworths and read the comic books...Bought my first real tool at Valentine's Hardware, seen in the background of the opening shot, a 10 inch Crescent wrench...Boulder was a magical place to be a kid back in the '50s and '60s.
BHS '63, and we moved to Boulder in 1958, so I saw and loved the same things that you did.
"National State Bank" - nice way to hedge your bets! Thanks for the video.
When Boulder was normal. Lived there from 68-08. No regrets leaving. Never want to return, unless it becomes like it was.
People dressed better in 1967 then they do today
Hi! I would like to get in contact with the owner of the channel about using some footage from this clip in a mini doc
My email: o4uxbpo9s@mozmail.com
about 10 more years and the GOAT Joey Diaz Arrives and makes Boulder great again
Hi @Scarter727, would you be open to using a clip of this incredible footage for a documentary?
BTW. My grandmother is in this too
Hi there! This is so neat to see! I am working on a Documentary of the The Sink through the years and would love to connect and see if I could use a few clips and give you credits on it?
GR8 Vides!!
That is all the Pearl Street mall now, right?
Where is the STP family?
I can smell the leaded gasoline of that main drag .
This had to have been the Fifties not 1967. I was a Denverite in 1967 and went to CU in 1970 and Boulder was not like this by then. CU was at the height of hippiedom in the late 60s.
Nope. I took it my senior year at CU in 1967.
This isn’t Boulder!
Yes it is way before pearl St walkway mall
I agree. I was there in 1967. For one thing it was not that congested with cars and people. Even in the 70s, downtown was pretty mellow.