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2021 Hidden History of Glenwood Springs Scavenger Hunt

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  1. This building on 7th Street once housed Glenwood Springs’ Durand Opera House, later named “The Odeon.” John Phillip Sousa (composer of “The Stars and Stripes Forever”) performed here in 1901. It is now KC’s Wing House. Find the plaque on the building. When was it built?
  2. The Silver Club Bldg. Home of high-stakes gambling and very likely a brothel, it now houses a restaurant in the basement and a thrift store. Find the plaque on the building. Name the Garage Shop that once occupied the building.
  3. Find the empty lot on Grand Avenue. The building that once stood there was the Mirror Saloon, where Doc Holliday reportedly dealt cards. Name the take-out place that currently occupies this lot.
  4. Doc Holliday died in this hotel on November 7, 1887. The hotel burned to the ground in December 1945. There is a plaque on the building on Grand Avenue that replaced the hotel. What was the hotel?
  5. John Blake was a Glenwood pioneer. His common-law wife, Gussie Blake, was Glenwood’s first madam. The building he built in 1886 contains wooden bunk beds in the basement, believed to be an opium den. Name the store on Cooper where the plaque is in the window.
  6. This building sits on a corner of Cooper and 8th Street. It is “The Everett” building, once a Glenwood grocery store. A business that is now housed in the building is an art gallery. What is its name?
  7. One of Glenwood Spring’s first banks is on Grand Avenue. Called the First National Bank building, it was built in 1887. Its plaque is on the side of the building. Who was the doctor who leased the third floor for a hospital?
  8. The Glenwood Springs Library building located on 8th St between Grand Avenue and Cooper St has plaques on its edifice. What was the name of Katie Bender’s restaurant which is now Juicy Lucy’s?
  9. Diamond Jack Alteri, a Chicago mobster, frequently visited Glenwood. He mistakenly fired shots through a door in this hotel thinking it was the room of someone with whom he had an altercation. He seriously wounded two salesmen and was banished from Colorado. See the plaque of this building on 7th Street and name the hotel.