Coloradans may think themselves at the spiritual center of the West, but sometimes, we have a hard time figuring out where we’re going. Where is this marker, and why is it there? Tell us what you know about the spot and how you knew it in a note to coloradosunday@denverpost.com, and include a digital photo of yourself. We’ll pick at least one tale to share next week. The best wins a $50 gas card.
How’d you know?
Last week: Doc John Holliday’s Tavern, Glenwood Springs
THE WINNER: Lenny Ortiz, Wheat Ridge
On March 13, 1992, I married my second wife, and we spent our honeymoon in Glenwood Springs. While we were enjoying a nice meal at Doc Holliday’s, someone helped themselves to the front tires on the truck I had purchased just a week before. With the help of a great officer from the Police Department, we were able to have an enjoyable weekend. My wife and I were married on Friday the 13th and the tires were stolen on the same day. (The marriage did not last, and the truck is now in the junkyard.)
I saw the Find the Place while riding the train home from Glenwood last weekend. My son and I enjoyed dinner at Doc’s place and took many pictures. It is just fate! The picture is of my son Zane with a wooden cowboy inside the tavern.
TOO GOOD TO MISS:
Diana and Rod Starling, Grand Junction
The collection of antique items in the bar is the best, from the back bar to the Doc Holliday items and pictures on the walls. Owner Marty Yoder always decorated for Halloween, and everyone came to the bar in their costumes. The Christmas decorating was great and Marty had a lavish buffet for all the patrons. The jukebox was the best; there was music for everyone. We always had a great time at Doc’s. Once when celebrating Doc Holliday Days, two men, one playing Doc Holliday and one playing Wyatt Earp, rode through the front door on a horse much to the amazement of us, the owner and the patrons. If you look closely, a hoof print still remains on the old wooden floor by the bar. Marty never met a stranger. Sadly she passed away two years ago this July.
GOOD TO KNOW:
Dennis Pretti, Grand Junction
The neon pistol is a familiar landmark on the main drag of Glenwood Springs. In the early 1980s the sign was seemingly relegated to the scrap heap by a revised sign code. The owners of Doc’s cleverly saved the then-two-sided sign by rotating it 90 degrees to its present configuration.
