Ken McKenna I’ve been told that you were on The Hill during the infamous riot. What do you remember about the riot? It was more of a drunken brawl than a political protest. It was more of a conflict between the cops and the street people. It was propagated because they closed the bars down […]
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Oral History of Boulder, Colorado in the 1960s — Interview with Howard Higman (Founder of The World Affairs Conference) in 1985
Howard Higman Howard Higman (25 April 1915 – 22 November 1995) was an American sociologist[1] notable as the founder of The World Affairs Conference in 1948 To begin with, at the beginning of the ‘60s Quigg Newton was the President of C.U. He had been a former mayor of Denver, and after he had campaigned for […]
Oral History of Boulder in the ’60s: Interview with City Councilwoman Gwen Dooley in 1985
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 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 ’60s interview with Walter Orr Roberts in 1986
Walter Orr Roberts Mr. Roberts, what changes occurred in the ‘60s that brought about the funding and support for the creation of NCAR? And what was there about Boulder that led to NCAR choosing to locate here? The story of science here in Boulder, and in Colorado in general, goes back, way back, to when […]
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 […]
An Oral History of Boulder interview with Kathy Snow in 1985
Kathy Snow I met Kathy Snow at New Horizons, a preschool that was started after Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated and set up as a cooperative venture. The school was created to teach non-violence and non-racism. Three of my own children attended New Horizons, where many of the ideals of the ‘60s were being […]
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