Old CU

  • old train
    In the early 1900s, a person could ride a train directly to and from the CU Boulder campus.
  • Ellison's Ball
    On the third floor of Old Main, encased in glass in an exhibition hall chronicling CU Boulder’s distinguished history in space, there’s a football with “Colorado” pressed into the pigskin.
  • scene of MLK assissination
    A motel in Memphis. A hotel in Los Angeles. The streets of Baltimore, Chicago and Washington. Combat zones across Vietnam. The year 1968 shook with violence.
  • KGNU radio
    Boulder’s first nonprofit community FM station, 88.5 KGNU, began broadcasting in 1978.
  • Earl Morris
    If Earl Morris wasn’t the inspiration for Indiana Jones, you could be forgiven for thinking so: He looked the part.
  • Hill Riot
    It was the worst Hill riot ever.
  • scan of architecture
    From its earliest days, CU Boulder educated men and women both. But it wasn’t until 1934 that the first largescale women’s dormitory opened.
  • Glenn Miller
    The first-ever gold record went to Big Band leader Glenn Miller.
  • World War I
    A collection of World War I photographs.
  • old photo from yearbook
    The 1967 Summer of Love may not have amounted to much at CU, but the ’67 fall semester was another matter.
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