Organizations
Collection for organization entities.
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- Cinderella City (Englewood, Colorado)
- Cinderella City opened for business March 7, 1968. At the time it was the "largest shopping center under one roof in the world" according to the developer, Gerri Von Frellick. When it opened Cinderella City contained approximately 250 stores, shops and restaurants within its three levels, plus a 600-seat theater. The five malls were climate controlled. Anchor stores in 1968 were Joslins, J. C. Pennys, Denver Dry Goods Co., Neusteters, Gano Downs and Woolworths. In the center of the Blue Mall was a spectacular fountain with a 35-foot high spray. The large area surrounding the fountain was furnished with blue sofas and chairs. The room was to become the location for community events, sales promotions and numerous displays.
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- Circle Bar ranching outfit, Moffat County, Colorado
- Ranching outfit based in the Axial Basin.
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- Citizens Finance Company (Grand Junction, Colorado)
- According to longtime employee Frank Simonetti, the financing and insurance company was established in 1925. It was located first at 557 Main Street, in the old Mesa County Courthouse building (now Main Street Bagels). Melvin “Pappy” Due was a significant figure in the organization’s history. He was one of its founding members and a longtime director with influence over the board of directors. Other founding members included Judge Sherrington and Judge Derryberry. When the number of staff reached 25, they enlarged the office space. The company benefited greatly from the 1948 Colorado Financial Responsibility Law which required motorists to have liability insurance. They moved from leasing office space on Main Street to building their own location on 4th Street and Rood Avenue in 1958. The company also published tourism brochures to promote Grand Junction and the Colorado National Monument. Additionally, they financed and commissioned a new map of Grand Junction. They computerized in 1964 but then sold out to Avco for $1,000,000 in 1965. Although some members of the company’s board did not want to sell, the company had been, according to Simonetti, relatively rudderless since the death of Due, and the sale eventually won the support of the directors. The company continued to operate as Citizens Finance for some years after the purchase.
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- Citizens National Bank (Glenwood Springs, Colorado
- A bank established in 1903. It closed in 1932, during the Great Depression. Mesa County Oral History Project interviewee Luella Frances (Muth) Morgan worked for her uncle there beginning in 1916, when she was fifteen years old. At that time, Citizens Bank had a brand new building located at 801 Grand Avenue, directly across the street from its only competition in town, the First National Bank. The building still stands, and is known as the Citizens National Bank Building.
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- Citizens' Alliance
- Anti-union organization active in opposing organized labor in Colorado and throughout the United States in the early 20th century.
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- City Market (United States)
- According to an oral history interview with Clarence Prinster, the first City Market grocery store was established by Adam Booker. The book The History of City Market gives the date of this establishment as 1922. The store operated at 400 Main Street. Paul Prinster, the oldest Prinster brother, had been working at a Piggly Wiggly store, and purchased a share in City Market’s ownership from Booker in 1924. He persuaded his brothers Frank, Leo, and Clarence to move to Grand Junction from La Junta, and together they purchased the whole enterprise and operated the store. By the early 1940s, the family decided to expand to wholesale groceries, requiring at least two more locations. This requirement was met by adding another Grand Junction location and a Montrose one. Eventually, the business became a chain operating in multiple states. Early City Market locations included: 4th and Main Street (1922), 4th and Rood Avenue (1939), 9th and North (1950), Montrose (1944), Delta (1945), Glenwood Springs (1948), Durango [1951], Rifle [1952], Cortez (1955), 4th and Grand Avenue (1956). Over the years, the sons and sons-in-law of the Prinster brothers took over the business. In 1969, surviving brothers Leo, Frank, and Clarence accepted an offer for the business from Dillon and Company of the Dillons supermarket company. Dillons acquired City Market, but the City Market stores maintained the name, and the Printers continued to work for the company. The Prinsters also maintained ownership of most of the City Market buildings, which they rented to Dillons. Dillons and City Market are now owned by Kroger. While Paul Prinster founded City Market, Clarence Prinster says that it was Leo who had the vision and ambition to grow the business into what it became. *Some information in this history came from The History of City Market by Anthony Prinster.
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- City of Salida Planning Commission
- The powers and responsibilities of the Planning Commission are set out in Chapter 2 of the Municipal Code.
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- City of Steamboat Springs, Colorado
- Source: The City of Steamboat Springs (https://steamboatsprings.net) Founded in 1900, Steamboat Springs is a thriving, authentic city with its roots deeply planted in the American West. At 6,700’ in the Rocky Mountains, this northwest Colorado community is home to year-round recreation, a historic downtown, vibrant businesses, active arts and culture, unique events, celebrated mineral springs, outstanding educational opportunities, and an 80-year Olympian tradition. All with the free-flowing Yampa River running right through the heart of it all. Steamboat Springs, as a community, acknowledges that this land is part of the homelands of the Indigenous Ute Tribes. Steamboat further acknowledges the continual fortitude of indigenous culture of Native Americans today. We will work to uplift Native Americans and strive for equality in our communities and beyond. The City of Steamboat Springs welcomes you with warm hearts, generations of history and heritage, along with a genuine tradition that honors the past while focusing on its future.