Pueblo: A thriving city with a lasting prosperity

"Pueblo: A thriving city with a lasting prosperity," says the card, and I don't doubt it one bit. The building is the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company's YMCA building. The CF&I had an interesting, some would say checkered, history that both reflected and sometimes shaped America during the 20th century. The Wikipedia has a short introduction to the CF&I here.

Vacations for all

Going through these old photographs, I'm often struck by what a time of transition the turn of the twentieth century seemed to be for homesteaders. A person may be slopping the pigs in the morning and on vacation in the afternoon. Granted, there was much more hog tending than pleasure trips, but the evidence in these and other pictures seems to point to the fact that 20th century concepts like tourism and consumerism (for the masses), came very rapidly - even to the Southern Great Plains.

Photo: Seven Falls, Colorado 1913