Interview with Gwen Dooley Gwen Dooley was on the Boulder City Council and was a people’s candidate in the finest sense. She represented the people in their fight to keep Boulder from being altered in a negative way by developers and a new transient, but well-to-do class of people who were buying up older homes […]
Oral History of Boulder in the ’60s interview with Steve Miles in 1985
Steve Miles I was born in Boulder on November 7, 1948. I went through Sacred Heart School in 1963 and graduated in 1966. In 1967 I sort of went to college and started in with the hip scene and then dropped out. I was busted in Boulder in 1967. It was one of the […]
Brandon Gill: Dems Will Impulsively Side with Illegal Aliens over Law Enforcement
By Jeff Poor September 21, 2026 In part: “What do you make of what’s happening right now in Austin?” Fox News host Will Cain asked. Gill replied, “Well, I mean, it it’s what you expect from the party that as a matter of policy brought millions of illegal aliens into our country, who just […]
Oral History of Boulder in the ’60s interview with Clancy Sheehy (owner of Clancy’s Bookstore on University Hill)
Brillig Bookworks Clancy Sheehy owned the Brillig Bookworks on the Hill. The Hill was the site of the infamous riot and open drug dealing. But being just across Broadway from the campus, it was also the center of a lot of student activity. Clancy’s bookstore was focal point for a lot of the intellectual discussion […]
Oral History of Boulder in the ’60s – Interview with Paul Howes per Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1985
Paul Howes The juiciest bit I can contribute is the three years I belonged to SDS. The Students for a Democratic Society. Yes. And that is really what it stood for. It was really a fascinating organization. Contrary to what you may have seen in the media, it was primarily, first and foremost, a social […]
Oral History of Boulder in the 1960’s – interview with J. B. Schooland in 1985
J. B. Schooland J.B. Schooland was an emeritus professor at CU, Boulder, as well as the author of several books on the history of Boulder. Among his civic accomplishments, he was instrumental in getting the train put in Central Park on Broadway and Canyon Blvd in Boulder. In 1986 he sold his home and […]
Oral History of Boulder in the 1960’s interview with former County Commissioner and City Councilman Paul Danish in 1986
Paul Danish This interview is with Paul Danish, former City Councilman and author of the Danish growth-limitation ordinance, AKA the Danish Plan. Contrary to the revisionist history of the local newspapers, it was not the City Council that implemented growth-limitation. Paul Danish was forced to put the issue on the ballot to get the growth-limitation […]
Oral History of Boulder in the Sixties interview with Karen in 1985
Two Classes of Hippies Emerge Social change of the kind that occurred in the ‘60s, in particular the hippie phenomena, began in the middle and upper-middle classes. The working class, at least in the mid-sixties, still dressed and acted the way adolescents did in the ‘50s. For the working class, greased-back hair on boys and […]
Oral History of Boulder in the ’60s inteview with Mayor Ruth Correl in 1986
Mayor Ruth Correll Ruth Correl was mayor of Boulder in the first half o the decade of the ‘80s and had been outspoken on behalf of peace and anti-nuclear issues. After I interviewed Ms. Correl she flew to the Soviet Union as a delegate to the World Congress of Women, which was held in Moscow. […]
Oral History of Boulder interview with Dr. McFarland in 1986
Dr. McFarland People my age and older were raised to be economical because we were all affected by 1929 and ’39, and then there came along a group of people who believed there was going to be ever-expanding prosperity. They are roughly the age of what are called the Baby Boomers, born between 1940 and […]
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