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Photos

All Black and White Photos Courtesy of the Pikes Peak Library District. Photos may be viewed on the Library Web Site at: http://www.ppld.org. Click on special collections, enter City Auditorium, in box asking what you want to look at. When photos are displayed, you will be able to click on each one to enlarge the picture for more detail. If you don't have a library card, get one. This is a wonderful resource for Colorado Springs.

Colorado Springs City Auditorium circa 1920s,
   
Colorado Springs City Auditorium circa 1920s,
Photo Gift of Gordon Sweet Estate		 Colorado Springs City Auditorium 1960
Stewarts Commercial Photographers

Entrance to City Auditorium circa 1923
Photographer: Standley, Harry L., Gift of Gordon Sweet Estate

Lobby 1923,
Photographer: Standley, Harry L., Gift of Gordon Sweet Estate

Committee meeting room, now the Cafe
Photographer: Standley, Harry L., Gift of Gordon Sweet Estate

 

  

View of auditorium from the stage, with the floor set up for a concert, with portable seats.
Photographer: Standley, Harry L., Gift of Gordon Sweet Estate


Note: Front rail of orchestra pit, at the edge of the stage, and windows, in back, above the balcony. The large squares in the ceiling, are skylights.The ceiling is made of braided horsehair, which was an early form of acoustic control.

The door, on the left center of the loges, is where the elephants and other performing animals, at the Shrine Circus, came in to the auditorium. There are still special steel braces, in the ceiling, where the trapeze artists connected their equipment.
   

1925 Autumn Exposition - Building was 2 years old. Farm, grain and feed show, with live chickens, in cages. Rabbits were also displayed.

Photographer: Standley, Harry L. Gift of Gordon Sweet Estate

National JC Convention 1949

Photographer: Stewarts Commercial Photographers
   
Banquet 1953

Christmas & Holiday Banquet December 8th, 1953
Note Garlands along balcony and evergreen trees in foreground.

Photographer: Stewarts Commercial Photographers

The Hand Painted mural in the lobby: (from City Govt. site) Two New Deal Era projects are being updated with the use of grant funds. The El Pomar Foundation and the Gay and Lesbian Fund for Colorado are funding the conservation of two wall murals painted in the City Auditorium. The murals were a project of the Works Progress Administration and were painted by two locally known artists – Archie Musick and Tabor Utley. Located in the lobby of the Auditorium, the murals have been exposed to years of dust, smoke and exhaust. The conservation treatment involves cleaning the murals, stabilizing cracking paint and repainting chipped areas. The conservation treatment will ensure the protection of these classic works of art for decades to come.