#cripple creek co

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Finishing old pieces I couldn't give up on, thinking about that special moment when lime green aspen leaves change over to gold. The car felt like my old old paintings. "67 Aspens" 20" x 16" Acrylic on canvas January 2024

[krispyweiss]

An “Intellectualized Rock ‘n’ Roll Artist:” Robbie Robertson Dead at 80

Robbie Robertson is dead.

The Band co-founder, guitarist and primary songwriter died Aug. 9, his management said in a statement.

“Robbie was surrounded by his family at the time of his death,” the statement said.

Robertson was 80; no cause was given.

“May Robbie Robertson rest in peace and love,” Todd Rundgren’s Spirit of Harmony Foundation said.

His death leaves Garth Hudson, 85, as the sole surviving Band member.

Robertson was an “intellectualized rock ‘n’ roll artist,” Michael Des Barres said.

“Robbie Robertson is so important in the history of rock ‘n’ roll music, bringing Americana and country music together … he will be remembered,” Des Barres said.

Given Robertson wrote “The Night They Drive Old Dixie Down,” “The Weight,” “The Shape I’m In,” “Stage Fright,” “Up on Cripple Creek” and scads of others, that is an understatement.

“Robbie Robertson’s words wove the fabric of the songs we all wear,” Joe Newberry said. “Rest in peace.”

“The loss of Robbie Robertson is heartbreaking,” Kiefer Sutherland said. “Canada has lost an icon, and music has lost a poet and a scholar.”

Robertson started - as his Band mates Hudson, Levon Helm, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel did - with Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks. They then became Bob Dylan’s band; then simply the Band.

“One of the all-time greats,” Tinsley Ellis said of Robertson.

When the Band split, Robertson’s output slowed considerably and he made just six LPs released between 1987 and 2019. But that didn’t faze Al Di Meola’s fandom.

“I absolutely adored Robbie Robertson,” the guitarist said. “His (self-titled) solo debut … is to this day my all time favorite pop album. … Robbie, rest in peace.”

8/9/23

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Taken from the cemetery in Cripple Creek, west of Colorado Springs, CO. Mt. Pisgah is on the right. Photo: Michael Olson (2022)  :: [Scott Horton]

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“The birds have vanished into deep skies. A last cloud drifts away, all idleness. Inexhaustible, this mountain and I gaze at each other, it alone remaining.” — Li Bai, from Reverence-Pavilion Mountain, Sitting Alone; Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China (tr. by David Hinton)

[hometown-horizons-photography]

Here is the wonderful shop called the Mercantile, found on the street of Bennett Ave this little shop has everything you'll need. Friendly staff, good food, delicious sweets, sweaters, hats, stuff for dogs, stuffed animals, and so much more. If you are to ever visit cripple creek this must be a stop for you, and the whole family.

329 E Bennett Ave, Cripple Creek, CO 80813

Special thanks to the worker James for letting me take these pictures.

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A picture of downtown Cripple Creek and of the Colorado Trading and Transfer Co located inside the oldest commercial building still standing in Cripple Creek (dating back to 1895).

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Haunted States of America: Colorado

Apparition Manor: True Ghost Stories of the Hotel Colorado (1995) by Kathy Rippy Fleming

The Hotel Colorado was built in 1891 in Glenwood Springs, CO, as a place of luxury for its guests. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Taft were quite fond of the hotel, which was nicknamed "the little White House of the West" for their presence. Numerous ghosts are said to haunt the Hotel Colorado, including a young girl in Victorian dress and the spirit of a murdered maid. Other encounters include absent smells of perfume and cigar smoke.

If you'd like to read more about haunted places in Colorado, check out some of our other books:

Ghost Tales of Cripple Creek (1983) by Chas S. Clifton

Ghost Stories of the Estes Valley (1998) by Celeste Lasky

Something in the Wind: Spirits, Spooks & Sprites of San Juan (2001) by Maryjoy Martin

Ghosts of Trinidad and Las Animas County (2002) by F. Dean Sneed

The Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL), founded in 1969, is the most comprehensive archive of its kind in the United States.  Our focus and mission is to acquire and preserve research materials on American Popular Culture (post 1876) for curricular and research use. Visit our website at https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl.html.

[scarfacemarston]

RDR Robbery but weird museum.....  Sorry for the atrocious angles, the museum was weird in how it displayed some of their exhibits. This incident is likely one of the robberies that influenced the developers of RDR.  Notes: It took me a while to find the original newspaper. The exhibit developers didn’t want to include the whole thing, but it is partially inaccurate. A screen shot of the accurate original newspaper is below. I could try to transcript the original newspaper, but that would be difficult. Dutch WAS comitting these type of robberies in 1902 after the gang fell apart, but it’s more likely the developers were thinking of an earlier time. Museum version: The Castle Rock Journal: Castle Rock, Colorado, Friday, February 28, 1902. ASSAY OFFICE EXPLOSIONS:  Cripple Creek, Co (Special to the Denver Republican - ) The violence of dynamite was used against a chamber of assay offices bearing the local designation of high grade shops,” at an early this morning. Eight of these establishments, five in __, two in Goldfield and one in this city, were more engaged by the explosions.

Not one of the lending assay offices in the district were m*lested. The destruction of these “high grade” establishments, miles apart but all between the hours of 3 and 3:30 o’clock a.m., would indicate that the explosions were prearranged.

Several theories all leading to the perpetration of the crimes. Bust some it is thought that the explosions were caused by ore thieves who, after placing their liberty in jeopardy, think they have been in turn robbed. By others it is surmised that a self constituted vigilance committee of miners, who have lost by the operations of ore thieves investigated the plot. Still another theory, timidly advanced, is that the detectives or others in the employ of the Mine Owners’ Association were at the bottom of it. In any case, it is certain that a number of men were

Engaged in the handling of the explosions. The authorities who have been working on the case all day, to-night refuse to express an opinion. They also refuse to make a statement as regards the reputation of the offices destroyed. Original newspaper:

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cripple creek, co.

a well needed getaway.

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Dinosaurs, Cripple Creek, CO, artist unknown

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Gold Camp Road to Cripple Creek CO 1898

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Bear Creek Plumbing & Hydronics

Address: Woodland Park, CO

Owner name: Scott Swistock

Phone: 719-271-9617

Business email: scott@bearcreekplumbing.net

Website: https://bearcreekplumbing.net/

Description: Bear Creek Plumbing is a full service provider and proudly offers affordable and reliable services to Teller County, Co and El Paso County, Co. Our services include all plumbing repairs, water heater and boiler installation, kitchen and bathroom repairs, fixture installations & more. We have a broad service area that includes: Cripple Creek, Florissant, Divide, Victor, Pueblo, Canon City, and all of Colorado Springs, Co. No job is too small or too big, and we provide fast, friendly, and experienced services. We are owner-operated and offer military and senior discounts. Emergency Plumbing Services are available and always FREE estimates.

Hours: 24/7 Service

[iowafed]

Labor History

Labor Quote: Kerry Skiff“We need a sustainable workforce for the sustainability movement.”Skiff is one of the organizers of the Defenders United union. Today’s Labor HistoryThis week’s Labor History Today podcast: Reconciling a Slaveholding Past. Last week’s show: A meatpacker’s American dream. Union miners in Cripple Creek, CO begin what is to become a five-month strike that started when…

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A Brief Introduction of Sodalite

The main identification features of sodalite: dark blue, polycrystalline structure, low RI1.48, low SG2.28 floating in a heavy liquid of 2.65, turning red under the Charles color filter, magnifying and observing the distribution of visible white matter in it. The color is closer to that of lapis lazuli. The main distinguishing point is that lapis lazuli is a variety of mineral combinations, with pyrite particles and calcite distributed in star dots or lumps. Sodalite is a kind of feldspar minerals. It is a chloride-containing sodium aluminosilicate. Sodalite is similar in color to lapis lazuli, and it is also called “Canadian lapis lazuli”or “bluestone”commercially.

Introduction of sodalite

Sodalite is a kind of feldspar minerals. It is a chloride-containing sodium aluminosilicate. Sodalite includes hydroxyl sodalite, tetrazite, bluesite, etc. Different types of sodalite have different colors. The shadow of tetrazite is often seen in volcanic eruptions. Its colors are gray, brown, and blue. In addition to blue, blue ashlar also has white, gray, green, etc. It is a common gem and is produced in France, Brazil, Greenland, Russia, Myanmar, Romania and North America.

Appearance characteristics of sodalite

Sodalite is usually blue, a few are white, green, red, purple or gray. Crystals are quite rare, and are mostly produced in the form of lumps, grains or nodules in nature. Generally glassy luster, on the cleavage surface, it is greasy luster. Sodalite is a silicate mineral containing sodium, aluminum and chlorine. When nitric acid is added and silver nitrate is added, white silver chloride will be precipitated. If chlorine in the composition is replaced by sulfur, sodalite (Hackmanite) is formed. Sodalite is rare in nature, and its appearance is quite similar to that of lapis lazuli (Lazurite). Therefore, it is often used as a substitute for lapis lazuli in the gem market, but sodalite rarely contains the characteristic pyrite inclusions of lapis lazuli.

Physical Properties of Sodalite

Crystal system: equiaxed crystal system

Crystals: rhombic dodecahedron, cubic dodecahedron, octahedron

Aggregates: granular, massive, nodule

Hardness: 5.5~6

Decomposition/Fracture:{110} Decomposition: Poor to Clear; Jagged to Shell Fracture

Gloss: Glass Gloss

Color: blue, gray, white, green or red

Streaks: white or very light blue

Specific gravity: 2.14~2.30g/cm3

Others:(1) Under ultraviolet radiation, orange or orange-red fluorescence is often produced

(2) with brittleness

(3) Translucent to opaque

(4) When heated and melted, it will foam and become colorless glass

Field production of sodalite

Sodalite is relatively rare in nature. It is mainly produced in alkaline rocks rich in sodium and poor in silicon, such as nepheline syenite, trachyte and xanyan and other igneous rocks or contact metamorphic silicite, often with nepheline, leucite, feldspar, zircon and other minerals symbiosis.

Maine in the United States and Ontario in Canada produce high-quality blue sodalite. In addition, the Ural Mountains in Russia, the Vesuvius Mountains in Italy, Norway, Germany and Bolivia all produce sodalite. A bright blue almost transparent sodalite was found in Southwest Africa.

Important Origin of Sodalite

(1) Litchfield and West Gardiner in Maine in the United States, Red Hill in New Hampshire, Salem in Massachusetts, Magnet Cove in Arkansas, Cripple Creek in Colorado and other places

(2) Mt. St.-Hilaire in Quebec in Canada, Davis quarry in Ontario and quarry in eastern and Princess Bancroft, and Ice River complex in Columbia in British

(3) Greenland Kangerdluarssuk, Tunugdliarfik fjords

(4) Norway’s Langesundfjord area

(5) Scarrupata and Mte. Somma in Campania, Italy, Val di Noto in Sicily

(6) Laacher See area of Eifel, Germany

(7) Miask, Kola Penin of Ilmen Mts, Russia.

(8) Kishengar of Indian Rajputana

(9) North Korea Ham Gyong North Prov. Gil Ju Co.

(10) Tiahuanaco in Bolivia

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A Wandering, rtp online Novel Read

Otis has come up with a very interesting idea to wander some time away while reading about our favorite pass-time. No I mean poker! you degenerates. It seems Otis has taken his long dormant poker novel introduction and has posted it in pieces on a tour of many of his favorite rtp online blogs. He started on Up for Poker (September 19, 2006) and has broken the intriguing introduction into ten pieces on ten different poker blogs [check the comment sections on whatever blog you get linked to]. The last line made me wish for more; here's hoping Otis at least keeps the story alive in cyberspace long enough to make it to our own young and fresh blog site for a short installment.

Let us return now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, The Lone Blogger Writes Again.

Tomorrow Is the Big Day!

While PokerBlog might not be headed to Aruba, we are holding our first ever online tourney tomorrow (7 pm eastern) where the prize is a cruise. Where said cruise is going, I couldn't tell you -- as that will likely depend on who wins. Regardless, here is the announcement with pertinent info:

From: dan michalski

Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 6:23 AM

Subject: you're invited ... PokerBlog cruise tourney!

Hi friends,

Remember that silly cruise promotion during the WSOP? Well our gracious benefactors at PartyPoker asked me to choose whom it should go to. OK, easy enough … I chose me. This raised  rtp online  many eyebrows. My second choice was Jen B. I think they suspected something fishy going on.

Anyhow, we’ve come up with a better alternative to giving it away. We’re gonna play for it. So mark your calendars:

The PokerBlog.com WSOP Invitational

Thursday, September 21

7 pm eastern

Buy-in: $0

Prize pool: a cruise package (for two)

Eighteen people have been invited to compete for this prize. Either you were part of PokerBlog’s WSOP crew or you made some semblance of intelligent contributions to the site during that time. Coonie actually posted most of her disgruntled dealer stuff after the WSOP, but we’ll cut her some slack since she was busy doing “research” until the end.

This should be fun. I hope you all can make it. And by the way, a sincere thanks for all your help with PokerBlog. I look forward to kicking your various asses on the tables.

Best,

Dan Michalski

If this is the first you are hearing of the tournament, then, well, it means you're not invited to play. However, assuming we all play nicely, there will be more tournament shenanigans in the future. We'll tell you how it all turns out.

up on cripple creek

CRIPPLE CREEK, CO-- Last week I was in Cripple Creek where I played in all 3 of their poker rooms. Cripple Creek is an old gambling town located about 45 miles west of Colorado Springs. It is almost 10k feet, so I had a lot of trouble breathing and if I got into a hot hand then I really had trouble breathing.

In CC, the buy-in for tournaments occurs at a very specific time (in all of the card rooms) and generally closes 30 minutes before a tournament starts. So my first attempt to play failed because I arrived 20 minutes early - which was really 10 minutes late.