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 […]
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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 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 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 […]
Oral History of Boulder in the 1960s interview with Mark Weiss in 1985 (Carnival Cafe)
The Carnival Café I (S.Byron Gassaway) worked at the Carnival Café in the early ‘70s as a dish washer and food prep person. It was located at the former site of The Little Kitchen, a restaurant that had served sandwiches to businessmen from the banks and stores downtown. The Little Kitchen was from an era […]
Oral History of Boulder interview with Phil Dubitsky in 1985
Phil Dubitsky Boulder had a variety of reputations which attracted my friends and I in the summer of 1970. There was the allure of the Rocky Mountains, lenient street life and a secretive government-affiliated university and the radical student movement which flourished because of this affiliation. My college friend, Bob, and I hitchhiked here after […]
An Oral History of Boulder in the ’60s and ’70s interview with Bob Miller
This interview is one of many that I recorded as part of my never published book which took place in 1985. I donated the cassette tapes of the interviews to the Boulder Carnegie Library in 1986. — S. Byron Gassaway Bob Miller A couple of things in the ‘60s were very stunning to me. The […]
An Oral History of Boulder, Colorado interview with Fred Shelton in 1985
This is part of a series of interviews I did with various movers and shakers in Boulder in 1985 — S. Byron Gassaway (webmaster) Fred Shelton I would like to begin by assuming that the reader has never heard of Fred’s Restaurant on Pearl Street in Boulder. To help elucidate this part of the oral […]
An Oral History of Boulder, Colorado — Interview with Curt Butler in 1985
Copyright 2026 S. Byron Gassaway Interviews with various Boulder residents took place in 1985 Introduction Boulder in the early ‘60s was both an urbane, cosmopolitan university town and a parochial small Western community. There was still an authentic “Old West” flavor to Boulder left over from the mining days. The air was clean all the […]
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