125 Years ~ The Boulder Daily Camera from 1891 to 2016 by Prairie Mountain Media

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arking this milestone brings great pride to us at the Camera and all of those who came before us. But this isn’t our celebration alone, or one solely of a newspaper, a business reaching its 125th year. Hardly. Rather, this is a celebration of our community, of all of you who have allowed us into your houses, your offices and businesses — your lives — these past 12K decades. And for allowing us to tell your stories. For that we say thank you. One by one, each of those stories make up the history of our home, Boulder County. We’re thrilled to have been the scribes of that record — the tellers of your tales — and we look forward to continuing that proud work. Thank you. And thanks for reading.

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Thank you, Boulder, for decades of support and readership

n today’s high-speed world of rapidly changing technology and consumer habits, the Camera celebrating 125 years in business is truly a time to stop the merry-go-round, take a deep breath, reflect on the past and give thanks to all our supporters and partners.

In this commemorative section, you will enjoy local historian, writer, columnist and former Camera staffer Clay Evans’ work as he took on the task of looking back at the past 125 years of the Camera’s and Boulder’s history. “Today, I look You’ll find historically forward to important front pages, the future columns about with the the work we do, stories same about our evoenthusiasm I lution through the decades, a had when I of old started in the plethora Camera phobusiness. It tos, and you might even has been a learn to make long (125a press workhat out of year) journey, er’s newsprint. with trunks of I have worked in the memories media busistill to come.” ness for the past 34 years Al Manzi and the past 10 years as the publisher of your Daily Camera. Your Camera is more than just a local business. Newspapers/local media companies are truly owned by the readers and advertisers who

support them. Newspapers grow with communities and, in the case of the Camera, that is certainly true over the past 125 years. None of the editors or publishers who led the Camera through the decades could have predicted how the Internet and the growth of technology would impact our industry, how we cover the news or how competition for your time would explode. For most of the first 110 years of the Camera’s life, reading the print newspaper was the only way to get local news and information. That has all changed so rapidly over the past 15 years. Today, more people than ever view the Camera’s news and information. Think about it — many still love reading the print edition, while others use our digital platforms, visiting them many times throughout the day and night. Others rely on social media sites, spending their time on Twitter, Facebook and others to connect to the Camera’s news and information in a completely different way. Of course, we cannot forget all the readers who use search engines to find specifically what they are interested in. A local story or photo is no

INDEX Daily Camera legacy .................................... 4T A history of the Daily Camera........................ 5T Impact of Internet.......................................... 8T Evolution of a reporter ................................ 12T Historic front pages .................. 15T, 29T, 43T Publishers through the years ......................17T Evolution of photography ........................... 18T Camera building through the years ............ 22T

longer just local. A single story or photo can instantly pique national or even worldwide interest if it is shared often enough. I am sure many of you have heard that the newspaper industry is a very challenging business today. That certainly is correct. Nevertheless, it is also an incredibly exciting time for the Camera and the industry as a whole. I could not be more thankful for the support you, our readers, bring to the Camera. You also will see, as you read this brief history of the Camera, ads of support from many of our longterm business partners. Take a good look — these are the businesses and organizations that are leaders in this community. In many ways, they are the heartbeat of Boulder County. The employees of the Camera have made this newspaper and media company one of the finest mid-sized news companies in the nation. It took literally thousands of hands and minds to bring you the news for the past 125 years. I salute them all, past and present. This commemorative section is a sort of small scrapbook of their hard work and dedication.

Evolution of production .............................. 39T Presses through the years ......................... 40T Daily Camera and Stephen King................. 45T Pressman’s hat .......................................... 46T Daily Camera Bloopers............................... 48T Donation of Camera collection................... 50T Pacesetter Awards ..................................... 52T Last Extra ................................................... 55T

Whether you’re a parent, parent an employee of a Boulder business or nonprofit, or an active volunteer, we want you to know that Boulder Valley School District is making some changes. We launched a strategic plan to see where we could improve – a plan that is called “The Success Effect.” Visit bvsdsuccesseffect.org to learn about the key components of a plan that’s already transforming our schools.

At BVSD, our educators help enhance the learning process by recognizing the natural individual passions, strengths and wonderment of students at all stages of their academic journeys.

Al Manzi Publisher and CEO

I hope you enjoy it. business. It has been a long (125-year) Today, I look forward to the future with the same enthusi- journey, with trunks of memoasm I had when I started in the ries still to come.

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A word of thanks

Top: Four members of the Daily Camera and weekly Tribune staff pose in front of the Camera’s original building on Pearl Street. Valentine Butsch, Camera general manager, is on the right. The woman is Fanny Snell, who was a typesetter for the two newspapers. Right: The Daily Camera June 3, 1891, edition is one of the oldest surviving copies of the Daily Camera.

We want to thank Wendy Hall and her kind staff at the Carnegie Branch Library for Local History for their assistance in making this commemorative section a reality.

The Success Effect is focused on six priority action areas, which fall under three key headings: Learning, Talent and Partnerships.

Any effective learning environment requires a great team of educators. BVSD’s new Strategic Plan places a high standard on all staff to work with students of all types to achieve the success that will enrich their lives.

BVSD is an integral part of this community. Building lasting student success extends beyond our schools and educators. As our communities grow and innovate each year, BVSD values key partnerships to strengthen all of our work.

Boulder Valley School District Education Center, 6500 Arapahoe rd., Boulder, CO 80303, 303-447-1010, bvsd.org

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125 years later, we’re still there covering the news for you SARAH KUTA Daily Camera

here’s a laminated photograph on Lonnie Granston’s desk that shows his daughter, Jenny, then just 4 years old, smiling in a brightpink bathing suit while swimming at Boulder’s Spruce Pool. That picture, cut from the Daily Camera some 14 years ago, might have been a window into the future. In February, Jenny committed to play water polo at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn. She made the paper that day, too. On signing day, Feb. 3, Lonnie Granston, a Boulder doctor, saw a familiar face “That guy tucked behind a camseems to era. Cliff Grassmick, who photographed show up Jenny learning to swim everywhere.” that 2002 day at Spruce Pool, was there Lonnie Granston capturing another important moment in her life. “I saw him taking photos, and I walked up to him and said ‘Hey, are you Cliff Grassmick?’ ” Granston said. “I told him the story of the photo on my desk. It was a nice little loop. “That guy seems to show up everywhere.” That’s what we do. We show up — in the courtroom, at Boulder City Council meetings, on flood-ravaged streets, at University of Colorado budget discussions, on election night, at the baseball diamond. Flashy events aside, we also show up for those seemingly small, everyday moments that make Boulder County a community — the swimming lessons, the graduations, the sunny February days on Norlin Quad. We bring you stories about your

friends and neighbors that you won’t see anywhere else. Stories about Bill Connor, who built a 40-foot sailboat in his south Boulder driveway, and Jeanette Barrie, who has been tending bar at the Boulder Theater for nearly three decades. The team of swift-water rescuers who brave a roaring Boulder Creek each spring, and Longmont charter school valedictorian Evan Young, who was barred from giving a graduation speech in which he planned to out himself as gay. When your high school teams are playing in the rain, we’re out there, too, covering their games and meets. We bring you live updates from CU football and basketball games, so that you’re in on the action, even if you can’t be Photos by Cliff Grassmick / Staff Photographer there. Top: Jenny Granston, 4, of Boulder, gets a few swimming lessons from her father, Lonnie, Our features desk tries new restauat Spruce Pool in Boulder in 2002. Bottom: Jenny Granston, right, and Laura Greer compare their letters after the National Signing Day ceremony at Boulder High School on rants, workouts and recipes for you, Feb. 3. Athletes across Boulder County signed letters to play sports at a variety of

See LEGACY, 8 colleges on signing day.

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Old Main at the University of Colorado as it looked in 1889.

Instilling the ‘breath of progress into Boulder County’ By Clay Evans

n March 17, 1892, exactly one year after its first issue, The Daily Camera — that upper-case “T” was official — published an editorial celebrating and conflating its aims with those of an Irish icon: “Today is the anniversary of St. Patrick and The Daily Camera. St. Patrick died several years ago at a ripe old age, while the Camera still lives and today starts upon its second year about as healthy a child as can be found in the Wild West,” the editors wrote. “St. Patrick had a mission on earth and well did he fulfill it. … The Daily Camera also has a mission, and in its humble way is striving to instill the breath of progress into Boulder County.” A century and a quarter later, the Daily Camera is still on that mission, having published more than 40,000 editions and outlasted every other business open in Boulder in 1891, including more than 100 Boulder County newspapers. But the paper’s survival was far from inevitable when it first hit the streets in 1891: A couple of dozen area newssheets had come and gone since 1866, more than one going belly up after one issue. There was, of course, news before

the Camera came along, so here’s a “Big-Bang Theory”-style history of the Boulder Valley up to 1890: • The Big Bang — 13.8 billion years ago • Formation of the Earth — 4.5 billion years ago • Rise of the Ancestral Rocky Mountains — 315 million years ago • Dinosaurs! Including T. rex, Triceratops, Stegosaurus and more — around 70 millions years ago

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Among the many other newspapers in early Boulder were the Boulder News-Herald, Aug. 31, 1916; Boulder Sentinel, July 24, 1885; Boulder News. Dec. 30, 1897; and the Boulder News and Banner, April 10, 1885

• Giant mammals! Including camelgiraffes, scary-big beavers and a 26foot-tall bison — 50,000 to 20,000 years ago • First humans — 18,000 to 20,000 years ago • Francisco Vasquez de Coronado explores Colorado — 1540-42 • Stephen H. Long “discovers” and names Longs Peak — 1820 • Capt. Thomas Aikens and company establish first European settlement

on Boulder Creek — Oct. 17, 1858 • Boulder City Town Company founded — Feb. 10, 1859 • Chief Niwot’s Southern Arapahos hold last antelope roundup, just east of Red Rocks west of Boulder — 1860 • University of Colorado established in Boulder — 1876 • First upholstery burned by students — 1877* (* — date approximate) See HISTORY, 6

Many thanks to Laurie Paddock, whose remarkable memories and detailed 88-page special section celebrating the Daily Camera’s 100th anniversary provided extensive background for this story. — Clay Evans

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1892-1940

And then — deep breath — cousins Frederick P. Johnson and Bert Ball started The Camera as a weekly paper, in September 1890. They chose the name — still unique among American newspapers — to reflect their interest in publishing more illustrations than most papers. The new paper’s offices were on the southwest corner of 11th and Pearl streets, where they would remain for the next 120 years. Johnson and Ball soon bought the Boulder Sentinel, a weekly founded by Lucius Carver Paddock and George Newland in 1884. After starting the Boulder Tribune in 1889, Paddock bought a half-interest in the Camera with his father-inlaw, Valentine Butsch, in 1892 and merged the two papers. For its first couple of years, the Camera was a morning paper published Tuesdays through Sundays. On Nov. 13, 1893, it changed to afternoon publication, Mondays through Saturdays. Paddock, known to friends as “Pad” or “Colonel,” an honorary title bestowed upon him by two separate Colorado governors, was born in Grand Rapids, Mich., just a few months after Boulder’s founding. He studied law before moving to Magnolia in the mountains west of Boulder in 1878 with his brother, Charles, and father, Augustus, to operate a small mine above Jamestown. The Paddocks relocated to Leadville the following year, where they operated sawmills and served in the Pitkin Light Brigade. In 1880, Charles moved to Chicago to become a physician and Augustus disappeared deeper into the West, moving to Idaho. Lucius came back to Boulder to work as a reporter. He also was a reporter at papers in Leadville and Aspen before buying the Camera. Paddock was publisher of the Daily Camera until his death in 1940. Well traveled in Democratic political circles, he earned a reputation as a razor wit and sharp-tongued editorial-

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Chautauqua Dining Hall circa 1901.

ist who enjoyed feuds with some of the state’s most prominent citizens, including Frederick Bonfils and Harry Tammen, owners of the Denver Post. Adversaries in Boulder decried his alleged “reign of terror” and “control of the City” through editorials — including one in 1925 on the perils of student boozing; sound familiar? — but a citation given with an honorary master’s degree from CU in 1927 called him “the Nestor of Colorado Journalism,” referring to the mythical member of the Greek Argonauts who gave good advice. The Fort Collins Courier once said that Paddock was “the Beau Brummel of Boulder, who, next to Billy Sunday, is the best single-handed talker on the road.” The Colonel was hardly the nefarious power his opponents imagined, but he certainly did wield influence in the community. He played a significant role, for example, in the building of another iconic local business, the Hotel Boulderado. The day after a 1905 city-council meeting at which citizens clamored for a first-class, luxury hotel to help put the city on the map, Paddock wrote the first of many editorials supporting the so-

called “hotel proposition,” according to historian Sylvia Pettem. The paper also ran boosterish stories with headlines such as, “Boulder is Alive and is Hotel Mad,” and promoted a campaign to sell $100 shares in the enterprise. “A hotel built by popular subscription will bring many a curious capitalist to our midst, and he is likely to say, ‘The hustlers who can do this can do anything. Boulder is the place for my money,’” Pettem writes in her book, “Legend of a Landmark: A History of the Hotel Boulderado.” The Boulder Hotel Company was formed April 27, 1906. Paddock’s preferred location at 13th and Spruce streets won out, and construction began in October. The Colonel waged but lost a battle against the name of the hotel — a conflation of Boulder and Colorado suggested by a rival newspaper editor, but was as thrilled as everyone else when it opened on New Year’s Day 1909. Paddock early on established the Camera’s culture of charitable giving and community involvement. When the rival News-Herald began running contests with lofty prizes — dia-

mond rings and cars — to win subscribers in 1930, he responded with a pledge to use 10 percent of revenues from subscription renewals and 20 percent of those from new subscriptions to fund scholarships at CU. He established the first relationship with the university’s journalism program, allowing students to put out the Camera two days each May as part

of their final examination. The paper also sponsored cooking schools and contests with prizes throughout the Depression era. On Paddock’s watch, the city of Boulder grew from a dusty settlement of 3,330 to the cusp of 13,000 residents and swiftly shed its 19th-century role as a mining supply town, well on its way to becoming one of the most iconic cities in the West. The Seventh-Day Adventist Church opened a branch of its Battle Creek, Mich.-based Kellogg Sanitarium on Mapleton Hill in 1896, Boulder’s first medical institution. Two years later, a gaggle of Texas schoolteachers seeking relief from summer heat started the Texas-Colorado Chautauqua Association, “to promote educational, literary, and scientific undertakings, the promotion of arts and the maintenance of a summer school in the state of Colorado.” The City Council bought an 80-acre parcel at the foot of Green Mountain to build an auditorium, dining hall and a water system. Gov. Alva Adams presided over the opening on July 4, 1898. Following a bitter, 10-year battle, citizens adopted a citymanager system of governance in 1917 (and elected its first female council member, See HISTORY, 7

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This branch of the Battle Creek, Mich.-based Kellogg Sanitarium opened on Mapleton Hill in 1896.

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remembered only as “Mrs. Scott Campbell”). The city had bickered over alcohol policy since 1875, debating whether to enact prohibition and ban the employment of “lewd women” in saloons. Even as a wave of temperance broke across the nation, citizens fended off prohibition efforts in 1896 and 1907, but after the state went dry in 1916, the city adopted a new charter banning the sale of liquor licenses that would keep the city dry for nearly a halfcentury. The city’s well-earned reputation of protecting open space dates to 1899, when Congress allocated some 1,800 acres in the mountain backdrop for preservation. CU leaped forward in the Camera’s early years, with the construction of the University Museum in 1903, the opening of Macky Auditorium in 1923 and Norlin Library in 1939, and a growing enrollment that included two of the university’s most famous alumni: Big-band musician Glenn Miller stayed one semester in 1923 before leaving to pursue his career, and future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron “Whizzer” White starred as a halfback on the

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On April 18, 1955, an overflow crowd sat outside Macky Auditorium and listened to Eleanor Roosevelt’s speech via a loudspeaker mounted on a sound truck.

undefeated 1937 Buffaloes football team. In 1918, the Camera replaced its “painfully slow” Country Campbell press with a “great, iron-hearted steel-jointed, smooth-spoken Goss Comet,” which could run off 3,000 papers an hour. In 1932, the Paddock family briefly entertained an offer to sell half-interest in the paper and merge with a Kansas-based newspaper chain, Oscar Stauffer Publications, and Oscar Piper, owner of the Fort Collins Courier. But the family backed out, then bought and closed The Boulder News-Herald. With the tide of the Depression receding in 1939, the paper extended into a building on Walnut Street that had been a laundry and garage to accommodate a new — and awesomely named — Duplex Tubular press in 1939. The Tubular weighed 38 tons, was 6-by-26 feet and could rip off 30,000 papers an hour. Most importantly, it used cylinders Courtesy photo of solid metal and molds to creFamed big band leader Glen Miller ate pages, freeing operators attended the University of Colorado. from the arduous task of hand-

setting type. Even back then the Camera had to worry about “new media.” Rattled by the growing popularity of radio sports broadcasts, the paper devised a real-time, analog alternative, posting play-by-play of the World Series on a wooden baseball diamond mounted in a front window.

1940s When Lucius Paddock died on July 31, 1940, his son Alva Adams “Gov” Paddock was more than ready to step in. Born in 1887 and named after the former governor, he began working in newspapers from an early age, first folding copies of the Daily Camera and his father’s other papers, then graduating to delivery — on horseback. Forced to abandon plans to study law when his father became ill in 1909, his interest in journalism was rekindled and with the exception of his 1917-18 service in World War I — his 6th U.S. Regulars were marching toward the

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the war, including Glenn Miller, whose plane disappeared over the English Channel on Dec. 15, 1944. Another student, Army Air Corps First Lt. Donald D. Pucket, of Longmont, received the nation’s highest military award, the Medal of Honor, after he ensured the safe escape of his crew and went down with his plane over Romania on July 9, 1944. After the war, CU’s enrollment rocketed past 10,000, half of it veterans. The school set up quonset huts and trailers along Boulder Creek, in what quickly became known as “Vetsville,” and soon embarked on construction of six new dormitories. The campus benefited from Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, including the Works Progress Administration construction of the Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre. The university succumbed to McCarthyism when President Robert L. Stearns turned over names of faculty who suffered from purported “pinkish influences” to the FBI. But by the end of the 1940s, the school had pulled in more than — hold the Dr. Evil jokes, now — $1 million in private research funding, 12th highest among all American universities. The city was shocked by the brutal murder of CU student Theresa Foster, discovered in a streambed between Boulder and Golden in 1948. The Camera posted a reward, and police eventually arrested Joe Sam Walker, who was later convicted and sentenced to 80 years to life in prison. In 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the conviction in a landmark case, ruling that publicity had made it impossible for Walker to get a fair trial. The district attorney’s office decided not to prosecute him again, and Walker died in 1983, when he hanged himself in a motel room in Texas.

front at Verdun, France, when the Armistice was declared — he worked at the paper for the rest of his life, taking charge when his father died. “He did write editorials from time to time, but they were never printed,” says his son, Laurence “Laurie” Paddock, 89, who served as the Camera’s editor from 1961 to 1992. “He would have them set for publication, but then he would change his mind.” Gov contributed to the community as the city’s welfare director for four years in the 1920s, donating his $600 salary to buy playground equipment and sponsor band performances. His tenure began with World War II, when the Camera was often forced to print on yellow paper, due to rationing. CU played a prominent role in the war effort, earning the nickname “Annapolis of the West” when the U.S. Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps estabPerhaps the most portentous lished a training program on development of the post-war era campus, and providing critical in Boulder was the construction Japanese-language training. At of the four-lane Denver-Boulder least 212 CU students, alumni, See HISTORY, 10 faculty and staff were killed in

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Roger Fidler, who headed up the Information Design Lab created by Knight-Ridder in downtown Boulder in the early 1990s, envisioned the earliest paperless or digital newspapers.

The Internet changed everything

20 years ago, paperless news was a vision of the digital future By Erica Meltzer • Staff Writer

n 1995, the World Wide Web was 2 years old, and a Pew Research Center survey found that just 3 percent of all Americans had ever used it. Some 4 percent of Americans read news online via the Web, bulletin boards and other means at least once a week, but the vast majority of those told surveyors it had not affected their reliance on traditional news sources. Internet use had doubled from the year before, but most Americans did not see the service as “essential” to their lives. But even then, there were those who saw the potential.

Three years before, Knight-Ridder, which owned the Daily Camera at the time, started the Knight-Ridder Information Design Lab in downtown Boulder. A team of journalists, designers and technologists looked into the future and foresaw the revolution that would overtake print journalism In a 1995 video titled “The Tablet Newspaper: A Vision for the Future,” Roger Fidler describes “an alternative to ink on paper.” “It may be difficult to conceptualize the idea of digital paper, but in fact we believe that is what is going to happen,” Fidler says in the video, which has resurfaced on YouTube, a platform that wouldn’t exist for another 10 years at the time Fidler described a 2-pound, handheld computer that would allow readers to use interactive graphics and watch videos alongside the articles they had always read. Ads also would be interactive and tailored to readers’ interests and consumer habits. Bruce Henderson, a longtime editor at the Daily Camera, had left the newsroom to teach at the University of Colorado’s journalism school before the Camera Website launched. At CU, he brought the student newspaper — the Campus Press —

online in 1994, at a time when barely more than 100 newspapers in the world had Websites. The real revolution, in Henderson’s view, didn’t come, though, until the popularization of mobile devices, which allowed readers to access information anywhere, at any time. That was the future Fidler envisioned with his tablet newspaper. Henderson recalled the first time he saw a demonstration of the multimedia potential of an online newspaper. “It had headlines and text and photos and videos,” he said. “And I thought, ‘Boy, that’s it. This is going to change everything.’ And it did.” The Daily Camera went online in October 1996 as BoulderNews.com. At that time, newspapers were advised to use a domain name that reflected the community they covered and not necessarily one that matched the newspaper name. Another owner also was “squatting” on DailyCamera.com, and the Camera wouldn’t own that name for years to come. The Camera launched BuffZone.com, focusing on University of Colorado sports, in 1998 and experimented over the years with a variety of specialized See INTERNET, 18

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and shares recommendations for how to spend your weekends. The Camera’s editorial page is where the Daily Camera stakes its position on particular issues of the day — from candidates for public office to city transportation decisions — and provides you with a place to share your views, too, through letters to the editor and guest commentary. We also continue to partner with more than 100 local nonprofit organizations and provide them with more than $2 million in support each year. Businesses big and small advertise with us because they know you, the consumer, are out there reading the Camera, and they want to reach you. Though our newsroom has a much smaller staff than it did decades ago, we, like everybody, are learning to do more with less. Today,

despite ominous warnings about the future of newspapers, we’re bringing you more news, and we’re doing it faster and in more different formats — print, Websites, apps, mobile devices and tablets. Though the way we do our jobs has changed a lot in 125 years, our purpose has stayed the same. We write, edit, tweet, Facebook, post live updates, photograph and record video with you, the reader, in mind. We ask questions that may not otherwise get answered, and we turn over rocks — sometimes a lot of rocks — because you deserve to know what’s going on in your community. The day after a large bull elk was shot in the Mapleton Hill neighborhood, the Daily Camera asked: Who shot this elk? No one claimed responsibility. We asked because you wanted to know. Eventually,

we got answers. Two cops lost their badges and now have felonies on their records. More recently, the Camera helped launch a conversation about potentially predatory investors who buy mobile home tax liens. Local agencies and officials are discussing the issue, which has resulted in four people this year losing their mobile homes, but in the meantime, readers took matters into their own hands thanks to our coverage. Nearly 100 people donated close to $20,000 in a few short days to help one man forced out of his home. We may not have the staff or the resources of a large metro paper or a national media news outlet. But we are here reporting every day, not just when the news is flashy or dramatic. Like we have for the last 125 years, we’ll keep showing up.

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Turnpike. CU civil-engineering professor Roderick L. Downing first proposed the idea in 1928 and used students to survey a potential route in 1946. After Boulder citizens delivered a petition, the Legislature approved funding, and construction began in October 1950. The toll road opened June 19, 1952, charging drivers 25 cents. “This turnpike will become famous as one of the most scenic drives in the nation,” Gov. Dan Thornton told the Camera. “It will show Colorado’s beauty to the rest of the world.” The highway also earned fame as the home of Shep, “the turnpike dog,” a stray who lived at two tollbooths under the care of employees for 14 years. The dog’s grave remained visible alongside U.S. 36 in Broomfield until it was moved to the Broomfield Depot Museum in 2009. The federal government announced Dec. 12, 1949, that it had chosen Boulder as the site for a new, $4.5 million Bureau of Standards campus. Citizens raised $70,000 in private funds in 1950 to buy 203 acres below Enchanted Mesa, putting the city on the road to becoming a scientific mecca. “This is a familiar pattern in Boulder; its people long since grew accustomed to throwing in with each other for causes or enterprises that would help the community prosper and grow,” Laurie Paddock wrote of the effort in 1991. Dwight D. Eisenhower became the first (and last, for more than a half-century) sitting U.S. president to visit Boulder when he attended the dedication of the new building Sept. 14, 1954. “The frontier days when we could go out and discover new land — new wonders of geography and of nature — has seemed largely in the past,” Ike said. “But here, inside this building, we have a frontier possibly of even greater romantic value as well as greater material value to us than were some of

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This photo of the Boulder-Denver Turnpike, now U.S. 36, was taken in the 1950s shortly after the new toll road to Boulder opened.

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Astronaut Scott Carpenter and his family ride through Boulder in May 1962, following his triumphant return from space. Carpenter grew up in Boulder.

the discoveries of those days.” Speaking of frontiers, Boulder native Scott Carpenter was named to the Mercury 7 project in 1959, launching Boulder’s long era of stellar contributions to space exploration. Just south of town, another facility opened a year earlier, to equal enthusiasm: The Rocky Flats Plant, built to manufacture

joined the powerful Big 7 football conference in 1948. In 1956 the team finished 8-2-1 and defeated Clemson in the Orange Bowl under head coach Dal Ward. And while nobody took much notice at the time, Boulder High School students Jon “Storm” Patterson, Bob Demmon and Brad Leach started a band they called The Stormtroopers in 1956. They would later attend CU, change their name to The Astronauts and find chart success in the ’60s and beyond. In 1959, Boulder took its first step in 60 years to preserve its mountain backdrop, creating the famous “Blue Line,” which prohibited the city from providing utility services for development above 5,750 feet. And by 1956, the press that had seemed so totally tubular in 1939 was no longer up to the job. The Camera installed a new Goss Universal press, which could print 18,000 two-section papers, and assemble and fold them in an hour.

plutonium triggers for America’s Cold War nuclear arsenal. And in 1956, Ball Corp. opened its new Ball Brothers Research Corp. campus in Boulder. The CU Buffaloes — Daily Camera employee Andy Dickson won a contest to rename the “Silver and Gold” in 1930 — Laurie Paddock took over as left the small-potatoes Mountain States Conference and editor in 1961, while his mother,

1960s

Annie Laurie Paddock, became publisher. Laurie had already worked at the Camera for two decades. “During World War II, my father said, ‘I can’t find anybody to clean the place up, you’re hired,’” he says. Like Gov Paddock, Laurie was a journalist at Boulder High and CU and his long career in journalism would be interrupted only by a two-year stint in the U.S. Army. Laurie married in 1950 and started as a reporter, covering county elected officials. He recalls his most embarrassing mistake: reporting that the county would spend $1 million to buy 100 voting machines for $1,000 apiece. “It was a math issue,” he says dryly. A jack-of-all-trades, Laurie also took photos, including of Eisenhower in 1954. He almost had his camera confiscated when he snapped a few frames of Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s desk on the U.S. Senate floor. The sergeant-at-arms barked, “‘You better not print that picture!’” “I did print it,” he says, smiling, “even though it was very bad lighting.” The Paddocks had deep Democratic Party roots, but the paper’s editorial policies reflected the city’s moderately conservative electorate. Voters sent CU business and lawschool graduate Don Brotzman to Congress in 1963 and again from 1967 to 1973. As with every other city in America, Boulder was stunned by the assassination of John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. But not everybody in town was unhappy: “I went to a memorial service at my church, and one of my Republican friends said, ‘What in the world did you do that for?’” Laurie says. Boulder City Council meetings were mercifully brief. “Bob Looney could cover the City Council, go home, write his stories, have time for a beer, and bring the copy in the morning,” Laurie recalls. He remembers sending Looney to Miami See HISTORY, 11

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to cover Scott Carpenter’s mission to orbit the Earth in May 1962. The 1960s kicked off Boulder’s long period of growth and development, beginning with the opening of the Crossroads Mall in 1963. That same year, voters defeated a proposed sales tax, but approved it the next year. Believe it or not, marijuana was a hot local issue as early as 1964. Following a police raid, a district court judge dismissed cases against the defendants, arguing that “Marijuana had been included wrongfully with such drugs as heroin and opium” under state law. However, the state Supreme Court reversed the finding in 1965. The Astronauts finally made their mark as a land-locked surfer band in 1963, breaking into the Billboard Top 100 with their instrumental, “Baja.” After a few years, they went on to great success, Spinal Tap-style, in Japan. The city became home to a second federally funded scientific facility in 1960 when the National Center for Atmospheric Research opened under the leadership of Walter Orr Roberts. In 1964, NCAR moved into the iconic I.M. Pei building beneath the Flatirons in South Boulder. Most significantly, IBM announced plans in 1965 to build a major facility between Boulder and Longmont and bring 1,400 employees to town. That spurred a wild housing boom in places like Martin Acres and Gunbarrel, which juiced the economy. “IBM sent an anonymous inspection group to come have dinner with the Chamber of Commerce, but nobody “I enter your knew who they were. home today People looked inside coats, trying to as a stranger. their find out what company I hope soon they represented, but found nothing,” Laurie to be Paddock recalls. “They regarded as a were just coming to town to see what the friend that attitude was and where you will miss a good site might be. if you don’t When they announced it, the community was see me every very excited.” The same year, the Sunday.” federal government then brought its new Environmental Science Services Administration, which would later change its name to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to town. CU began building a new engineering center and additions to its dormitories, Norlin Library and the University Memorial Center in the mid-’60s. Residents were less enthused about Williams Village, a towering dormitory complex on Baseline Road built with bricks rather than the Lyons Formation sandstone that graced the rest of campus. CU drew the attention of Red-baiting politicians in Washington once more when a Senate committee denounced

teach-ins about the Vietnam War as being run by Communists. Students staged a “peace fast” in 1965, the first of many demonstrations to come against the growing war in Vietnam. In 1966 the city experienced another high-profile murder, when CU student Elaura Jean Jaquette was sexually assaulted and bludgeoned in a tower at Macky Auditorium. Police arrested a campus janitor, 37-year-old Joseph Morse, of Longmont, who was later convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Morse died in prison in 2005. Nineteen sixty-seven was a truly momentous year in Boulder, as voters approved taxes to purchase open space, setting a goal to purchase 12,000 acres. They also finally jettisoned prohibition from the charter. Controversies connected, directly or indirectly, to the Vietnam War continued to roil the campus as the decade rolled on. The university suspended 13 students for blocking access to a placement office in protest of the CIA, while faculty protested a 1921 state law requiring them to take a loyalty oath. Under the guidance of coach Eddie Crowder, a former quarterback at the University of Oklahoma who had taken over in 1963, the CU Buffaloes football team grew into a national power. The team beat Miami in the Orange Bowl in 1967, Alabama in the Liberty Bowl in 1969 — thanks in great part to superstar Boulder High products Dick and Bobby Anderson — and wound up No. 3 in the nation at the end of the 1971 season. Without fanfare, four former IBM employees — Jesse Aweida, Juan Rodriguez, Thomas S. Kavanagh and Zoltan Herger — became early forerunners of Boulder’s illustrious technological future when they formed their information storage company Storage Technology Corp. in 1969. Longtime residents will also remember other indelible events of the late 1960s: the massive fire at Blackmarr Furniture; 130 mph winds on Jan. 7, 1969, followed by severe flooding in May and June and almost 50 inches of snow … in October. Less well remembered was the potentially disastrous fire at Rocky Flats in May 1969, which caused $45 million in damage and a plutonium release. Down at the Camera, sports editor Howard Baxter hired a young Dan Creedon, who had come to Boulder to play basketball for CU. CU sports information director Fred Casotti, who hired Creedon as a student assistant for a dollar an hour in 1956, called him “maybe 10 times the best one I ever had.” Creedon, who shared an office with a Navy recruiter when he started at the Camera, would become sports editor a decade later, developing the sports page “into one of the best in the country,” Laurie Paddock says. The paper was thriving, remembers Terry Harmon, who worked as the paper’s main receptionist and switchboard operator from 1970 to 2005. “When I started, we had an old plug switchboard and I took 1,500 calls a day,” she says. “I would hand- write

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Construction is underway on the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder in 1965.

messages and put them on a ledge above the switchboard. Sometimes someone would open the front door, the wind would hit, and they’d fly all over the floor.” Harmon isn’t the only one who remembers the Camera as much more than a workplace. “We were really the only source of information for Boulder, except for KBOL (radio). … It felt very much like a family. People took care of each other. If someone was sick, the editor would send someone over with chicken soup,” says Linda Cornett, a reporter from 1973 to 1998. “We frequently went to a bar together and there was a lot more socializing than I’m sure goes on today. It was fun for us, though I don’t know if that was good or bad for the newspaper.” After publishing six days a week for more than 70 years, the Camera went truly daily for the first time on July 5, 1964, with the advent of the Sunday Daily Camera, available at newsstands for a dime. The new edition was introduced under a headline reading, “Here

I Am; Your Hometown Sunday Newspaper.” “I enter your home today as a stranger. I hope soon to be regarded as a friend that you will miss if you don’t see me every Sunday,” read the story below. “I am your new Sunday Boulder Daily Camera.” The newspaper underwent a big change when the descendants of L.C. Paddock decided in April 1969 to sell the paper to Ridder Publications, a chain that owned newspapers and television and radio stations in New York and the Midwest. Laurie Paddock opposed the sale, and tried to buy the Camera himself. “I wanted us to stay as local as possible,” he says. “I went to the bank to see if I could borrow the money and was told, ‘Why don’t you take your share and get out?’ I never forgave that man.” Ridder’s out-of-town publishers may have been vexed by Boulder’s legendary quirkiness. Perry Harmon, a press operator from 1960 to 2006 (who met his wife, Terry, at the paper), recalls when publisher Norm Christiansen See HISTORY, 16

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Rate of change in craft of reporting only getting faster By Charlie Brennan • Staff Writer

here are reporters still working today who started out on typewriters. You remember typewriters. Newsrooms 35 years ago were filled with the din of rapid-fire clickety-clack of hammered keys, complemented by incessantly jangling phones. And when finished with a story, a reporter would take the resulting two or three pages, glue the bottom of one to the top of the next and submit the makeshift scroll of prose to the city editor, whose editing would be done with a sharpened pencil. The evolution from that cumbersome process to the practice as it stands today in the Internet age, is comparable to the leap from slogging across the country in a covered wagon over many months to doing it in four hours in a jet plane. And it’s a change that has come about much more quickly. “The speed with which we work has vaulted ahead dramatically, and the speed has intensified,” said Kevin Vaughan, a longtime Colorado newspaper veteran who now is an investigative reporter in Denver for 9News. At 52, Vaughan is old enough to remember the typewriters and his editor’s exacting pencil at the Fort Morgan Times, where he started his career. “Now, we write something on our phone, and push a button “The basic and it is published on the need Internet, if you to tell the will,” said audience, to Vaughan, who time as convey the logged well at the Colstory, that’s oradoan in Fort always been Collins, the now-defunct there. It’s Rocky Mountain News and just the then the Dentechnology ver Post. His post-Post that has career trajectomade it ry says a lot simpler for about the evoof reporters.” lution reporting; his Sharon Shahid next two stops Newseum director were at news entities that didn’t exist more than a few years ago — the I-News Network in Denver, followed by the national Fox Sports 1 television network, before landing last year at 9News. There are now far fewer people practicing the newspapering trade. In 2007, there were 57,000 full-time journalists at nearly 1,415 daily papers. By 2015, there were about 32,900, according to a census by American Society of News Editors and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Florida International University. And the shrunken pool of those plying the craft has been matched by the compressed

dynamics of the daily reporting process. Rather than wading through what has been published before on a topic on the earliest iteration of LexisNexis, or waiting for a fax machine to cough up a key document from a source, reporters now summon critical data and other material from far-flung sources on their computer monitors and smartphones in little more than a heartbeat. “In the ‘good old days,’ we wrote a story basically once, right? You spent the day, you gathered your story, told your editor to leave you alone; you had a deadline and you sat down and wrote it, one time,” Vaughan said. “Now you do it 10 times a day. You update the Web, tweet it and Facebook it or whatever. So, that process has obviously changed a lot.”

Not always a ‘civil’ profession Reporting no longer involves horses, for example. The invention and evolution of the telegraph in the mid-19th century revolutionized the rapid transmission of news bulletins. And, according to Sharon Shahid, at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., “The telegraph effectively got rid of the Pony Express. Before that we were getting the news from the horses, going from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento; the telegraph really shrank the nation, and made the news available to everyone.” Shahid, director of editorial content for video and interactive productions at the Newseum, sees an indelible thread of continuity that runs from the Pony Express, through the rise of the telegraph, through the heyday of so-called yellow journalism as practiced by the Pulitzer and Hearst publishing empires at the dawn of the 20th century — when the Daily Camera was born — to where we stand today. “Back in the 19th century, you still had that urge and need of reporters to get the news out fast, to get it as accurate as they possibly could and as timely as they possibly could,” Shahid said. “Today, they can do that because they have so many more options at their disposal. The basic need to tell the audience, to convey the story, that’s always been there. It’s just the technology that has made it

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Alva A. Paddock is seen working at his Oliver typewriter at his roll-top desk in the Daily Camera building.

simpler for reporters.” Vaughan noted that the tone of journalism is sometimes bemoaned in this TMZ, Gawker and Buzzfeed-influenced era by those who think the level of discourse has become coarsened or more “lurid,” But his research into journalism of bygone years suggests it wasn’t always pretty back then, either. Shahid agreed. “During those (PulitzerHearst) circulation wars there wasn’t any civility at all,” Shahid said. “That’s when yellow journalism was born, during the era of circulation wars — there wasn’t anything civil about their fight, which lasted for years and years, starting around the 1900s, turn of the century.” Journalists working now, and even those recently retired,

came into the business well after that era. And whether there is now more or less civility in journalism, all can agree there is less time. For everything. Sue Deans, who spent roughly 15 of her 30 years in newspapers at the Daily Camera in two stints, is struck by that. “One of the things I remember having to do in my early years was you stay at the City Council meeting until it was over at midnight or 1, and then you’d come back and write three or four stories before 3 o’clock in the morning, when the computer would shut down for the night. “The whole production process has changed so much,”

said Deans, 67. “I think too, a lot of what we did in the olden days was actually going to something and reporting on it. A lot of reporting is done now on the phone, and people are instantly reachable, which has changed things. The whole technology is bizarrely different. And not in a bad way, necessarily. It just makes it faster to get things into print. “I think it’s probably better, for covering an event, a breaking news event, because you can get it up more quickly. But, there is also a high risk of something going wrong.”

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Reporters and editors working in the Daily Camera newsroom in the early 1970s.

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Colorado, the Golden Transcript — established in 1866 as the Colorado Transcript, before going on to serve as city editor of the Longmont Times-Call from 1979 to 1983, then on to the Rocky Mountain News where he worked as state editor, city editor, national editor and business editor over 26 years. Reuteman is now an adjunct professor of journalism at Colorado State University. He stresses a few things to aspiring journalism students based on changes he has lived through. “You have to take a class in business journalism,” Reuteman said. “You have to understand the concepts of business. You can’t even be a sportswriter anymore without knowing about luxury tax rates, salary negotiations and collective bargaining agreements. And for that matter, you have to be a cops and courts reporter to be a sports reporter, too,” which used to be dismissively referred to by some news pros as “the toy department.” And, said Reuteman, a knowledge of data journalism, or, computer-assisted reporting, has become crucial. “The average citizen can’t possibly comprehend all the data your city, your county or

your state is putting out there every day. So it’s up to the reporter to make sense of it all, build spreadsheets and know how to understand and how to manipulate data,” Reuteman said. “You only used to have to interview people, but now you have to do what is called ‘interviewing data.’ You stare at a spreadsheet long enough for patterns to emerge, and then interview the data — ask it questions and it will yield answers. That has been a really important evolution in reporting.”

‘Get it now, fix it later’? Denny Dressman spent 47 years in journalism, mostly in management, and both in the editorial and business ends of the profession before retiring after 25 years at the Rocky Mountain News in June 2007. He sees former Camera editor Barrie Hartman on occasion for lunch. Dressman, 70, said he once shared an anecdote with Hartman about being moved as a young reporter by interviewing a man who came into the newsroom off the streets with a tale of woe and heartbreak. Dressman was sure he had a heart-wrenching human interest story on his hands — only to be dressed down by his grizzled editor for

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Former CU Athletic Director Mike Bohn answers reporters’ questions during a news conference in the club level of Folsom Field in 2012.

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Reporter Erica Meltzer, left, chats with city editor Matt Sebastian in the Camera’s “new” newsroom on Western Avenue, where it relocated after leaving its historic downtown location in 2011. The Camera has since moved again.

not “looking through the guy’s wallet” and doing everything else possible to verify that the supposedly hard-up man’s story might actually be true. “It was such a great lesson for me. And Barrie said, ‘I had that kind of experience, too.’ And I guess most of us have, at one time or another,” Dressman said. “My worry, and I am very concerned about it, is that with the emphasis on electronic journalism, whether that’s blogs or Websites or TV reporting or whatever,” he said, “is that there will be a time when the kind of experiences where the veteran teaches the youngest how to do it will go away. Because, the (next generation of) veterans will only know the ‘get-it-now and fix-it-later’ way of doing things. We’re not going to be better for that, let me tell you.” Also, today’s tech-savvy young reporters who laugh at the antiquated tools Reuteman and his peers muddled their way through mastering, such as the early Harris and ATEX

word processing systems, have their own future shock awaiting them, Reuteman said. “I tell my students, before you snicker at all the stuff that I have used that has become obsolete, I think the rate of obsolescence now is about triple what it was when I was coming up,” Reuteman said. Adjusting to the ever-changing technology has tested every news scribe’s patience. Former Daily Camera reporter Katy Human recalled in an email an occasion when the paper’s Harris spellcheck system converted the subject of a review by the Camera’s late classical music writer Wes Blomster from Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly’ into Zucchini’s “Madame Butterfly.” She believes that made it into print. Blomster, remembered by colleagues as usually mild-mannered, “was tearing his hair out,” said Human, who is now communications director at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, a partnership of the University of Colorado and the National Oceanic and Atmo-

spheric Administration. “Some of us struggled with new technologies, such as a software upgrade or swap,” said Human, who was at the Camera from 1997 to 2003, save for a nine-month Scripps Fel- “The average lowship at citizen can’t CU’s Center possibly for Environmental Jourcomprehend nalism. all the data T h o s e s t r u g g l e s , your city, your Reuteman said, will con- county or your tinue, even as state is the job of putting out repor ting keeps changthere every ing. day.” “EveryRob Reuteman thing you are former reporter so adept at, three years from now will be obsolete,” Reuteman has told his CSU students. “In three or five years, you’re going to have to learn completely new stuff. Just like I did.”

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sent four photographers to shoot an announced “streaking” event in the early ’70s. “Well, the photographers burned up thousands of dollars of film focusing on the young ladies, but there weren’t any (pictures) they could run,” Perry Harmon says, laughing. “When Mr. Christiansen got that bill, he was so upset he kicked through his glass door.” Lucius P. “Lupee” Monroe, nephew of L.C. Paddock, briefly took over publishing duties after the sale to Ridder. In 1970, the company brought in Christiansen, who would serve as publisher until 1976.

1970s

In some ways, “the 1960s” didn’t fully arrive in Boulder until after 1970. That year, students occupied buildings and disrupted ROTC exercises, and in May at least 7,000 gathered on the Norlin Quad, threatening to shut down the university in protest of the war. In 1972, the American mining of Haiphong Harbor catalyzed violent anti-war demonstrations that spilled off University Hill as far as U.S. 36, where some 2,000 students placed barricades and stopped traffic. A church-state kerfuffle erupted over the city’s traditional display of a lighted star at Christmas and cross on Easter on Flagstaff Mountain; the council eventually eliminated the cross, but the star still shines from November to January each year. In an early prototype of the classic “weird Boulder” story, a national scandal erupted after local teen Jimmy Gronen won the national Soap Box Derby. With help from his stepfather, he had placed a magnet in the nose of his balsa-wood racer, which gave it a head start when the metal starting gate pulled open. The boy was stripped of his title. Boulder started down the road to becoming one of the biggest Buddhist centers outside of Asia when Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, who escaped from Chinese-occupied Tibet, started Naropa University. The school drew early attention for connections with Beat-era celebrities, including poets Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg. The first rumblings of Boulder’s overwhelming political transition were heard in 1973 when voters elected liberals Penfield Tate — who would become the city’s only African-American mayor — Tim Fuller, Ken Wright and Karen

Paget to the City Council. PLAN-Boulder County really began to flex its muscles, successfully shepherding a ban on building over 55 feet high into law. Democrat Alex Hunter defeated incumbent District Attorney Stan Johnson, and the Republican Party has never regained the seat. In 1974, Tim Wirth defeated Don Brotzman, kicking off a four-decade Democratic reign in the state’s Second Congressional District. “Boulder was changing from conservative to progressive. The university was growing, and all those technical people were coming in with IBM, NCAR, the Bureau of Standards,” Laurie Paddock says. Gay rights stirred controversy when the new council voted to place a measure barring discrimination based on sexuality on the ballot. But voters rejected the measure by nearly a 2-1 margin in April 1974, and later ousted Councilman Fuller in a recall election. Tate held off a recall, but was defeated in the next election. In 1975, Boulder County Clerk Clela Rorex issued a marriage license to two men, Dave McCord and Dave Zamora, saying state law did not specifically ban same-sex unions. The state attorney general overruled her, but not before Ros Howard demanded to be allowed to marry his horse; Rorex declared the animal was below the age of consent. A curious epidemic of bombings and explosions struck the community in 1974, including two car explosions that killed six people and repeated bombings of schools and other public buildings. Growth concerns continued to grow in the mid- and late-1970s, as voters narrowly approved the Danish Plan, named after city council member Paul Danish, which restricted the number of new building permits to 450 a year. In 1977, after years of controversy, the city opened the four-block, brick pedestrian mall on Pearl Street from 11th to 15th streets. It was so popular out of the gate that the council was forced to ban everything from bikes to Frisbees in an effort to keep crowds down. Thanks to the opening of Jim Guercio’s Caribou Ranch recording studio north of Nederland in 1972, many famous rock musicians began to breeze

through town, including Elton John, Chicago and Peter Frampton. Musicians associated with the Southern California country-influenced school of rock — Joe Walsh, Dan Fogelberg, Richie Furay and many more — even moved to Boulder. Big-time rock shows debuted at Folsom Field in 1972 with the Grateful Dead and resumed in 1977 with a day-long event featuring Fleetwood Mac, local hitmakers Firefall, Bob Seger and other acts. Such giants as the Rolling Stones, The Who, The Eagles, Van Halen and Simon & Garfunkel would play sold-out shows at the field through 2001. The community went through a heat-

ed debate over nude bathing at Coot Lake after a man drowned. Local residents complained that the nudists were using drugs, and the City Council initially voted to drain the lake, but reversed itself in favor of better law enforcement after a lawsuit was filed. Although many residents had been complaining since the late ’60s about “hippies” and “bums,” the issue of the city’s growing population of seasonal homeless people exploded when highschool students began harassing and allegedly beating “street people.” With the end of the Vietnam War, local protesters turned their eye to nuclear weapons. In 1978, 60 protesters See HISTORY, 24

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Publisher Lucius C. “Colonel” Paddock, right, and son, Alva A. “Gov.” Paddock, pose for a photo in front of the Daily Camera offices in 1939.

n all, 13 people have served as publisher and/or president of the Daily Camera through its first 125 years. There was one period in the Camera’s history when no one held the title of publisher.

1891-1892 Frederick P. Johnson

1892-1940 Lucius C. “Colonel” Paddock

1970-1976

Norman J. Christiansen

1940-1961 Alva A. “Gov.” Paddock

1961-1969 Annie Laurie Paddock (president)

1976-1982 J. Edward Murray

1969-1970 Lucius Paddock Monroe as a child.

1982-1987 1987-1992 Janet Chusmir

John L. Dotson Jr.

Christiansen, left, Camera publisher; and Melvin Eurich, center, pressroom manager; and James Sevrens, right, general manager, examine one of the first editions.

1992-1998 Harold Higgins

Higgins advocated for a regional approach to Boulder County’s growth issues in a speech at the Boulder Development Commission in December 1993.

1998-2003 Colleen Conant

2003-2006

2006-present

Greg Anderson

Al Manzi

Anderson, right, attends a morning planning session with Daily Camera staff on Jan. 19, 2006.

Manzi chats with a guest at a business after-hours at the Daily Camera in May 2009.

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Photography was a Daily Camera cornerstone from the beginning By Alex Burness • Staff Writer

n the top left corner of the masthead on the earliest editions of what was then known simply as The Camera, a photographer focuses her lens on a creature with a human body and a globe for a head, and says, “Now look pleasant.” This was a newspaper committed from its onset as a weekly in 1890 to telling the stories of the day with as much imagery as possible.

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One of Boulder’s most colorful artists, photographer Joseph Bevier Sturtevant, also known as “Rocky Mountain Joe,” started out his life in town as a wallpaper hanger. While he never worked for the Camera, he captured some of the most iconic photos of early Boulder, beginning in the late 1800s,

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online publications, from BoulderAtNight.com for entertainment and nightlife to MyTown.com for citizen-generated content. In the early years, though, the Internet did more to change reporting than it did to change the experience for users. Journalists filed their stories as they always had, and the Website was updated once a day. “We were still treating the Web“The print site as a function of paper was the daily newspaeverything. It’s per,” said Jason Gewirtz, a reportthe paper of er at the Daily record. When it Camera from 1996 to 2000, as he hits your recalled the early doorstep, that’s days of online jour“It was just minute No. 1, nalism. a weird computer when it’s really version of the newspaper. It took already 12 a while for people hours old.” to realize this was something people Jason Gewirtz former reporter could check anytime of the day and not just when it arrives on your doorstep in the morning. “The print paper was everything,” he continued. “It’s the paper of record. When it hits your doorstep, that’s minute No. 1, when it’s really already 12 hours old.” In the mid-1990s, there was one computer in the Camera newsroom that had Internet access, and reporters had to take turns using it for research. Gewirtz recalled how exciting it was when each reporter got their own computer with Internet access at his or her desk.

Screen capture of BoulderNews.com in 1998

The Camera employed a librarian, and the newspaper had its own reference section and archives, where paper clippings were kept in files organized by keyword. “There was a copy of the World Almanac on the city desk, and the rule was that it did not leave the city desk because it was one of the most important reference books we had,” Gewirtz said. Reporters quickly realized the research potential of this new tool, the Internet. When a 15-year-old student from Brazil killed another teenager from South Korea in a car accident at the McDonald’s on Baseline Road, Gewirtz and his colleagues were able to learn about the communities these young people came from, and how the news was being covered in their home countries via the Internet. “We did a long feature that looked at who both these kids were, and it was the type of story where I don’t know how we could have gotten the information about where they came from, what their neighborhoods were like, without the Internet.” The Daily Camera moved its digital team into the newsroom in the late 1990s at a time when many newspapers kept them nearly as separate as news and advertising. That partnership contributed to the evolution of the online Camera. It was also in tragedy that newspapers realized the potential of the Internet to keep readers informed of breaking news. During and after the shooting at Columbine High School in 1999, the Daily Camera Website was continuously updated with news reporting, photo galleries, polls, and audio and video of what was then the worst school shooting in U.S. history. In 2000, the Daily Camera won an EPpy Award, at the time the highest See INTERNET, 54

sented problems, and the paper ran into debt from its inception all the way through World War I. But the world of photojournalism would move quickly, as newspapers grew more profitable. Pictures were transmitted by wire for the first time in the 1920s. The Associated Press established a “The first wire photo network in 1935, people who and continues owned it to have a daily presence in named it the the Camera. Of course, way they did the use of AP because they photos has wanted to evolved over time. As see more recently as 2001, when the pictures. But Camera photo they found staff had gone that it was fully digital, the paper had expensive far more pages then even and sections, but also its just to take front page had the pictures a more nation and interna- and then cut tional focus, the film.” w h i c h Laurie Paddock required more longtime editor wire photography. “Before the Internet, we would routinely put international material on the front page,” said Paul Aiken, photo editor since 1998. “So, part of See PHOTOGRAPHY, 19

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The name has changed over the years — The Camera, The Daily Camera and The Boulder Daily Camera have each had their moments — but the centerpiece of the name remains unique among American papers. Founders Bert Ball and Frederick Johnson named the paper The Camera, with the idea of placing more illustrations in their publication than others did at the time. They planned to use engravings to reproduce pictures and drawings. A sift through some of the first copies reveals a disproportionate number of sketches and comics set inside the giant columns of small-print text typical of the day’s newspapers. Of course, illustrations would eventually lose out to photographs. Longtime editor Laurie Paddock — grandson of Lucius Paddock, who, with Valentine Butsch, bought the paper from Ball and Johnson in 1893 — spoke recently of the rocky transition. “The first people who owned it named it the way they did because they wanted to see more pictures,” said Paddock, who started working at the Camera as a high-schooler in 1944, served as its editor for 30 years and still lives in Boulder. “But they found that it was expensive then even just to take the pictures and then cut the film.” On several levels, cost pre-

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what we did was scour the wires every day for art with those stories. Pre-Internet, we thought the only source people had about international information was the Daily Camera.” Color slide and later color negative film did not become standard for use by newspapers until the 1990s, but even then, it wasn’t exactly convenient. Early on, preparing color slides and film for the paper required additional and elaborate processes. Aiken described working with machinery “the size of a desk,” and spoke of photographers using black trash bags to

create makeshift darkrooms in hotel bathrooms for on-theroad assignments. Over 125 years, as photo equipment has shifted slowly from heavy machinery down to today’s digital cameras and even smartphones, the paper’s appreciation of photojournalism and imagery hasn’t wavered through changing technology, periods of prosperity or relative destitution. When Colleen Conant, editor and publisher until 2003, arrived at the Camera in 1997, she brought with her a strong belief that published news should be an even split See PHOTOGRAPHY, 21

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In the color laboratory at the Camera, circa 1973, transparencies of color pictures are separated into four screened negatives for red, yellow, blue and black, which were then transferred to aluminum press plates used to print the Camera.

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A Camera staffer processes a photograph in one of the darkrooms near the newsroom in the early 1970s.

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between words and art, including photographs, charts, maps and any other visual element. This was an approach she’d fought for in previous roles. “It wasn’t an argument I necessarily had to make when I got to the Camera,” Conant said. “I think people understood.” The artistic persuasion pervaded the institution philosophically and in name, with bygone sections bearing names like “Focus,” “Snapshots” and “Portraits.” In the boom of the 1980s, the paper published a features section, Sunday magazine and Saturday sports magazine, all of which played up photography. The staff’s half-dozen photographers would travel for fashion shoots to the Great Sand Dunes and to football games in Oklahoma and Nebraska. Pictures so far off site are now either not taken at all, or assigned to free-lancers, AP or journalists from other publications. “Photos were held in high esteem,” said Cliff Grassmick, a Camera photographer now in his 30th year. “They knew that we were the best people to get the photos that they needed, so they sent us to them.” In a different era, a staff photographer would turn in 20 photos from a football game,

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and find that 10 made print. Today, the significantly thinner Daily Camera — down to 11 inches in width, as of February — would use only three or four. As the digital revolution has fundamentally changed the industr y, the ideals of journalists like Bell and Johnson are still carried out. While someone who shoots a University of Colorado football game may see fewer photos in the print edition, they now post dozens of their photos from the game online in galleries, and further complement sto-

ries with videos they shot and edited. No doubt, the staff a generation from now will be doing things today’s journalists never fathomed, but the paper’s essential belief in art’s story-

telling potential won’t be compromised, just as it wasn’t when Lucius Paddock pivoted from illustrations to photos. “People look at me and ask, ‘How have you been here 30 years, doing the same thing?’”

A contact sheet showing photo exposure of negatives of pictures taken when the Camera’s 1882 building was torn down in 1963.

Grassmick said. “But really it’s not the same thing, because of technology. It’s like I’ve worked at four different newspapers; they just all happen to be called the Camera, and we’re still in the same town.”

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Photo negatives of events from the 1970s.

The National Guard on maneuvers on University Hill in 1891; with it is the original plate that the photo was printed from.

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Then-CU women’s basketball coach Linda Lappe during a news conference in 2013 seen through the viewfinder of a modern camera.

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or more than 120 years, the Camera was located on the southwest corner of 11th and Pearl Streets in downtown Boulder. Originally, the newspaper occupied half of the first floor of a two-story, 50-by 90-foot building.

In 1918, there was talk of the Camera possibly moving to a new location so that it could have additional space. The owner of its then-home, however, excavated and finished a basement as a press room, painted the building and provided steam heat, among other upgrades to induce the Camera to stay put. So we did. The building saw more improvements and additions through the years — typically when a new press was purchased — until 1963, when it was replaced by a new building. In 1973, a matching addition was completed on the

Members of the Camera staff in front of the building circa 1900.

west end of the building, space needed to accommodate a new press, mail room, circulation offices and a photo department. The Camera added a new entrance, archway, a building fronting Walnut street and structure over the alley connecting the Pearl Street and Walnut Street buildings in 1986. The Daily Camera sold the building, along with its space at 1023 Walnut St., to Los Angeles-based Karlin Real Estate in 2010 for $9 million. The Camera relocated Camera file photos to 5450 Western Ave. in January 2011, then to 2500 55th Members of the Camera staff in front of the building circa St., Suite 210, in September 2015. 1900.

Our building following remodelling in 1925.

Christmas 1938, following a renovation in 1937.

The new Camera building in 1963. An addition would be added to the west end in 1973.

Photo circa 2010. The Camera moved from its historic location in January 2011.

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from the Boulder-based Rocky Flats Truth Force were arrested for trespassing at the site. In April 1979, just weeks after the Three Mile Island disaster, musicians Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt played for 15,000 protesters. Another 15,000 gathered in August, this time to show support for the plant. The CU Buffaloes football team fell into mediocrity after rising through the late 1960s and early ’70s. But like the rest of the state, Boulder swooned to “Broncomania” in 1977 when Denver’s previously hapless NFL team rode their vaunted Orange Crush defense to the Super Bowl, where they lost to the Dallas Cowboys. And on Memorial Day 1979, Ric Rojas won the first Bolder Boulder 10K, started by Olympic marathoner Frank Shorter and Bank of Boulder founder Steve Bosley. Although he had written two best-selling novels, titan of hor-

ror Stephen King didn’t draw much notice while living in Boulder in 1974-75, where he penned his Colorado chiller “The Shining.” The city earned fame as the hometown of Robin Williams’ quirky alien in the immensely popular “Happy Days” spinoff, “Mork & Mindy,” which ran from 1978-82. On Sept. 25, 1979, physicists David Hummer and Randolf Ware joined their friend Alvin Nelson to start the Boulder Beer Co. in a “goat shed” outside town, Colorado’s first microbrewery and only the 43rd licensed brewery in the nation. Hummer had come up with the idea following a sabbatical in England, where he found the brew far superior to the fizzy yellow stuff peddled by America’s industrial brewers. The Camera bought a new press in 1973, a Goss Metro Offset that would print Boulder’s news for the next four decades. In 1974, CU journalism dean Mal Deans initiated a fruitful

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intern program with the paper that continues today and led to the hiring of such notable journalists as Rick Reilly, who went on to Sports Illustrated and ESPN. And in 1974, a merger put the Camera in the stable of Knight-Ridder, a chain with a combined circulation of some 3.5 million readers of such notable papers as the Miami Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer and San Jose Mercury News. J. Edward Murray replaced Norm Christiansen as publisher in 1976.

1980s

The new decade got an ugly start with several highprofile murders. In 1981, Mary Ann Bryan was dragged out of a Longmont pharmacy at gunpoint and later found dead in a field near Niwot. Her ex-husband, Herbert Marant, had hired “Tattoo” Bob Landry to kill Bryan in a custody dispute. Their trial was moved to Durango due to publicity, where both men were sentenced to life in prison for the murder. In 1982, 3-year-old Michael Manning was killed in a beating by his ex-prostitute mother’s boyfriend, Daniel Arevalo. Elizabeth Manning described what happened in a police interview, but her testimony was excluded because she had not been read her Miranda rights. She served a short sentence on child-abuse charges, and Arevalo served a 10-year prison term for the crime. In 1983, CU student Sid Wells, boyfriend of actor Robert Redford’s daughter, was found shot to death in his condo. Police theorized that the crime was related to cocaine and arrested Wells’ roommate, Thayne Smika. DA Alex Hunter and a grand jury later declined to indict Smika, who disappeared after his release. On the strength of new

evidence, current DA Stan Garnett issued a warrant for Smika’s arrest in 2010. A momentous shift for the Camera happened to coincide with one of the biggest national stories of the decade on March 30, 1981, when the paper returned to morning publication for the first time since 1893 and President Ronald Reagan was shot in New York City by John Hinckley. “That happened about noon our time, and would have been in our evening paper,” recalls Sue Deans, then city editor. “So we had a lot of people calling us to find out what was happening.” Newsweek published a story in 1980, “Where the Hip Meet to Trip,” that described Boulder as a rip-roaring party central, where pounds of Columbian cocaine arrived daily, offices

closed early so everyone could get drunk at Friday Afternoon Club down at the Harvest House, and the jail was as posh as a country club. “Many people saw red,” Laurie Paddock recalls. “The Daily Camera asked for reactions and forwarded about 120 letters to Newsweek.” There was some truth to the city’s reputation: A 1984 Camera survey found local residents were 50 percent more likely to have used cocaine than the national average. Up at CU, the news wasn’t much better, as the athletic department slashed seven “minor” sports to eliminate a $1 million deficit. The football team rose to the top of Los Angeles Times writer Steve Harvey’s infamous “Bottom Ten,” and the NCAA put the football team on See HISTORY, 25

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probation for two years after uncovering rules violations. Tragedy struck in 1984, when receiver Ed Reinhardt suffered a disabling brain injury while playing against Oregon. Chuck Fairbanks was fired as head coach following the 1983 season, and the school hired Michigan assistant Bill McCartney, who would take the Buffaloes to their greatest success. After beating Nebraska in 1986 for the first time in more than two decades, the Buffs went on to post an undefeated season in 1989, losing to Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl, before finishing atop the AP poll following the 1990 season. Tragically, former quarterback Sal Aunese, who inspired the ’89 run, died of cancer. Off the field, CU’s reputation continued to grow, particularly as a hub of space sciences. And the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, established in 1958, had in 1974 become one of just a handful of companies in the nation to have performed every play by the Bard. In 1982, future film star Val Kilmer played Hamlet on the Mary Rippon stage. Local phenom Davis Phinney and his wife, Connie Carpenter, respectively won bronze and gold cycling medals at the 1984 Olympics. By decade’s end, the Denver Broncos had played in three Super Bowls with quarterback John Elway under center, but were blasted into submission by the New York Giants, Washington Redskins and San Francisco 49ers by an average score of 4516. Mother Nature was in the news often during the early part of the 1980s, reprising the hurricane-force winds of a decade earlier in 1982 and dumping 30 inches of snow on Boulder during the “Christmas Blizzard” later that year. The Crossroads Mall finally reopened on Aug. 11, 1983, following a drawn-out, controversial $54.3 million renovation. Growth continued to dominate political discussions. In July 1985, county commission-

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A smiling CU coach Bill McCartney is escorted off the Orange Bowl field after the Buffaloes defeated Notre Dame 10-9 in the 57th annual Orange Bowl Classic in Miami on Jan. 1, 1991.

ers Ron Stewart and Josie Heath voted to delay a downzoning on many rural properties, resulting in the issuance of just six building permits through the end of the year — and lawsuits from angry farmers. A Camera investigation in 1987 exposed a bizarre “giftmaking” operation at Rocky Flats that cost taxpayers more than $1 million. Area residents protested plans to incinerate nuclear waste at the site, and in 1983 17,000 people joined hands to surround the site in protest. In 1989, following a two-year, covert investigation by the FBI and EPA, the Department of Justice raided the plant for violations including groundwater contamination and illegal incineration of toxic materials. A grand-jury indictment of operator Rockwell was later settled for $23 million. Boulder voters finally approved language to add sexual orientation to the city’s antidiscrimination ordinance in 1987, 13 years after the idea led to the recall of a city council member. Amidst a crackling Western drought that set Yellowstone

afire, Boulder County saw the first of what would become a semi-regular occurrence of dangerous, destructive wildfires when some 2,436 acres burned in the Left Hand Canyon area in September 1988. In July 1989, the Black Tiger fire raged for four days across some 2,300 acres, destroying 44 homes and causing $10 million in damage. The following year on Nov. 24 a mentally ill man sparked the wind-fueled 3,000-acre Olde Stage fire, which destroyed 15 structures. CU celebrated its first Nobel Prize laureate in October 1989 when biochemist Tom Cech shared the honor with Yale’s Sidney Altman for their work demonstrating the evolutionary role of ribonucleic acid and showing how RNA can act as an enzyme. The most momentous shift for the Camera during the 1980s came in 1982, when Knight-Ridder sent Janet Chusmir to replace J. Edward Murray, who had been publisher since 1976. “She was one of the most important things to ever happen to the Camera,” says Thad Keyes, who started as a report-

er in 1979 (a few years after an abortive hitch as a deliverytruck driver failed to help him “get a foot in the door”). “She was from Boston, the first female publisher at Knight-Ridder, and she came to the Camera with this standard that she was not going to be in charge of some pokey hometown paper.” Chusmir lured highly regarded executive editor Barrie Hartman away from the Eugene (Ore.) Register-Guard. Between them, they beefed up the newsroom. “She even had a damn architectural critic,” Keyes marvels. “She called the Daily Camera ‘the little paper that doesn’t know it’s little.’” In 1986, the Camera sent the first reporter in recent memory out of state. But the 1986 launch of the space shuttle Challenger turned out to be a very different story than Todd Malmsbury bargained for. “We sent him because a school class from Boulder was going to watch because of the teacher (Christa McAuliffe) who was on board,” recalls Sue Deans, who started as a reporter in 1975 and by then was city

editor. “So we had a reporter there to file stories.” Dan Creedon’s sports department covered not just CU, but all the Denver pro teams, as well as national and international events. “We had 13 full-time people,” recalls Neill Woelk, who joined the sports staff as a CU intern in 1981 and stayed for the next 30 years. “I had the opportunity to cover five Super Bowls, the Olympics, the World Series, the Final Four — the biggest sporting events in the world. It’s something I’ll never forget.” The paper strived to be more than a source of news, emphasizing not just reporting but excellent writing and a willingness to try new things to attract nontraditional readers, including youth and minorities. But readers didn’t always appreciate the effort, as when reporter Julie Hutchinson pursued rumors that actor Goldie Hawn and her boyfriend Kurt Russell were strolling down the mall. Hutchinson never found the celebs, but wrote a funny, entertaining story about her quest. “It was fun, a great ‘reader,’” says Keyes, who ordered the story “stripped” across the top of the front page. “I wanted a light headline, to convey that nobody thought this was the top news of the day.” But the news editor played the headline straight, readers balked at the story’s placement (and more), and Keyes spent the next day handling calls from irate readers. Then there was the time the Camera went with a story, “Boulder misses brunt of storm,” only to endure mocking when TV reporters trained their cameras on news boxes topped with more than a foot of snow the next day. Chusmir initiated the Camera’s Pacesetter program in 1985, which annually recognizes community leaders in categories such as health, business and environment, and continues to this day. Chusmir left in 1987 for the Miami Herald, where her staff See HISTORY, 26

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would win two Pulitzer Prizes. When she died of a brain aneurysm just three years later at age 60, The New York Times described her as “a leading proponent of women’s advancement to the top levels of management in American journalism.” With Chusmir’s departure, John L. Dotson Jr. broke another barrier, becoming the Camera’s only African-American publisher.

1990s Between 1960 and 1990, Boulder’s population had more than doubled, to 83,000. It was solidly Democratic, highly educated and increasingly expensive. The area’s political transition was complete by mid-decade, when Sandy Hume became the last Republican to win a countywide office. In 1994, Bill Swenson, a Longmont Republican, became the last member of the GOP from the county to win a seat in the Statehouse. And in a preview of the ugliness of political campaigns to come, Mark Udall, a one-term member of the Colorado House, defeated Boulder businessman and founder of KBCO Bob Greenlee in a nasty campaign to succeed David Skaggs in the U.S. House of Representatives. With the stunning fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and subse-

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Mark Downey, center, is escorted from one of the late 1980s Mall Crawl gatherings to the Boulder County Jail by police officers. He was arrested on suspicion of criminal mischief for climbing a tree.

quent collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the United States won the Cold War. Locally, the most significant impact was the dissolution of Rocky Flats. After the Sierra Club won a lawsuit, the plant was ordered to manage and clean up radioactive wastes, and in 1991, the U.S. Department of Energy, EPA and

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The Dalai Lama arrives in Colorado during his visit to Boulder in 1981 as seen in a file clipping from the Camera.

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the Colorado Department of Health signed an agreement to clean up the plant. When President George H.W. Bush canceled production of a submarine in 1992, 4,500 workers were laid off. Two years later it was renamed the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site, cleanup began, and within a few years there would be no (visible) trace of the plant, though activists continue to raise concerns about soil contamination more than two decades on. After years of raucous Halloween celebrations that brought as many as 40,000 revelers to the downtown “Mall Crawl,” the city of Boulder shut down the event in 1990. The city played host to three global celebrities during the decade. Japanese Emperor Akihito and his wife dined at the Flagstaff House and Sushi Zanmai restaurant on Spruce Street in 1994; the Dalai Lama packed the house when he spoke at Naropa University in 1997; and Pope John Paul came to Denver for World Youth Day in 1993.

Camera reporter Julie Fowler covered his visit to the St. Malo retreat west of Boulder, and was rewarded for her patience when he greeted her over a barricade. The CU Buffaloes continued their winning ways even after the surprise retirement of Bill McCartney following the 1994 season. The team won six consecutive bowl games from 1993 to 1999 under coaches Rick Neuheisel and Gary Barnett, and the program produced its first Heisman Trophy in 1995 with Rashaan Salaam. Off the field, things were not always so positive. Evangelical Christian McCartney stirred up protest and calls for his firing when he publicly endorsed Colorado’s Amendment 2 in 1992 while standing in front of a CU logo. The amendment, which banned the state from giving protected status to gay, lesbian and bisexual people, passed, but eventually was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, which argued that the law “lacked a rational relationship to legitimate state interests.”

Though little noticed, CU hired cross-country coach Mark Wetmore in 1991, initiating an unprecedented era of domination in the sport by the Buffs. Wetmore’s teams would win seven national championships over the next two decades. Meanwhile, the Bolder Boulder had grown into the nation’s second-largest 10K road race, well on its way to putting 50,000 runners on the street each Memorial Day. CU’s storied Conference on World Affairs, begun by legendary sociology professor Howard Higman in 1948, was canceled for the only time in 1995 following allegations of misdeeds by the founder and accusations that it had become little more than an excuse to party and offered little relevance to students. Higman died in November that year, and the revamped conference resumed in 1996. CU President Judith Albino weathered the Amendment 2 storm, but later faced petitions from eight college deans and 70 faculty members accusing her of poor leadership and communication. The regents voted to retain her, 5-4, but she was soon gone. Her successors, former Boulder Mayor John Buechner and Elizabeth Hoffman, fared even worse and were ousted following scandals. Relations between the Boulder City Council and CU fell to an all-time low in 1996, when the university bought 308 acres at the southeastern edge of town for future development. But “CU South” never came to fruition, and 20 years later its future remains a subject of mostly polite discussion between the parties. The city continued to burnish its penchant for weird with the saga of the “angel tree” on Flagstaff Mountain in December 1995. An anonymous person, later revealed to be a long-time resident celebrating recovery from cancer, had been hanging angel ornaments on a scraggly, non-native Chinese elm tree for over a year when someone complained. The city removed the See HISTORY, 27

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angels, saying they violated the separation of church and state. “We don’t want to seem like Grinches,” said Alice Guthrie, operations superintendent for the open-space department. But that’s exactly how national media portrayed city leaders. International media swarmed Boulder after the Camera broke the bizarre story of a “frozen grandpa” in a Nederland shed in 1994. Trygve Bauge, a Norwegian citizen who founded the city’s famous New Year’s Day Polar Bear Plunge, had evaded immigration officials for years despite holding an expired visa. When they finally deported him, his elderly mother called the Nederland marshal’s office for advice on what to do with her father, Bredo Morstoel, whom her son had been storing in a shed on dry ice with an eye toward reviving him one day. The story spawned an awardwinning documentary, “Grandpa’s in the Tuff Shed,” by local filmmakers Robin and Kathy Beeck, who would go on to create the wildly successful Boulder International Film Festival. After a few weeks of panic, Nederland officials calmed down and embraced grandpa — whom Bauge continues to pre-

serve, paying for monthly deliveries of dry ice — and the town eventually started its popular Frozen Dead Guy Days winter festival. But not all was fun and games. The horrific Ballard child abuse case reached its conclusion in 1992, when Michael and Patricia Ballard and their friends, Dennis and Marcia Dunann, were convicted in the sexual assault and torture of the couples’ seven children. But the biggest story of the decade — perhaps the century — was the murder of 6-year-old former child-beauty pageant participant JonBenet Ramsey on Dec. 26, 1996. Police missteps in the initial investigation of what the girl’s parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, reported as a kidnapping ignited a story that would result in books, movies, false confessions, conspiracy theories, a grand jury and the destruction of political and civilservice careers. The Camera prepared three versions of an extra edition for the grand jury’s report. Not long after DA Alex Hunter announced that there would be no indictment, TV reporters covering the story at the justice center were holding up Cameras to their cameras. “It remains the city’s greatest unsolved mystery. The family

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being so prominent and the background of JonBenet, being shown off (in pageants) made it irresistible. It just blew up,” says Laurie Paddock, who was by then editor emeritus. “But I think there was too much attention given to the story, and there still is.” If anything, the bludgeoning death of 23-year-old CU senior Susannah Chase just one year later, on Dec. 21, 1997, felt more personal to local residents. That case also endured a false confession and remained unsolved for more than a decade. But thanks in part to Google, a DNA hit eventually led to the arrest and 2008 conviction of Diego Olmos Alcalde in the killing. And though it occurred some 40 miles away, the Camera sent reporters and photographers to cover the 1999 Columbine High School shooting aftermath. Riots erupted on University Hill in 1997 for the first time since the Vietnam War era, as students set couches on fire and left just about everyone else scratching their heads over what it was all about. On the local arts front, author Jon Krakauer penned two monster nonfiction bestsellers. “Into the Wild” (1996) explored the strange and moving story of Chris McCandless, a young man who disappeared into the wilds of Alaska and eventually starved to death. A year later, Krakauer published “Into Thin Air,” a detailed history of his harrowing experiences during the deadly 1996 climbing season on Mount Everest. Although the band had been around since the mid-1980s, Big Head Todd and the Monsters didn’t hit the big time until they released their platinum-selling “Sister Sweetly” in 1993, when they were living in Boulder. In 1992, the Dairy Center of the Arts was founded on the former

The Camera hit the streets with this extra shortly after the grand jury concluded its investigation into the death of JonBenet Ramsey on Oct. 13, 1999.

site of the Watts-Hardy Dairy, featuring galleries, performance spaces and theater screens. Boulder and the Camera embraced the most successful era of Denver professional sports. The Colorado Avalanche — formerly the Quebec Nordiques — moved to town and promptly won two Stanley Cups. The hard-luck Broncos finally won two consecutive Super Bowls in 1998 and 1999, throwing a big, orange, 0-4 monkey off their backs and sending quarterback John Elway off to heroic retirement. In 1992, Harold Higgins took over as publisher of the Camera from John Dotson, who left to take the helm at the Akron Bea-

con-Journal. Executive editor Barrie Hartman steered the newsroom until 1995, when he became editor of the editorial page. Then, in 1997, the Knight-Ridder chain that had owned the Camera since 1974 traded the Camera to the E.W. Scripps Co. for two California papers. “I’d spent my career writing about players being traded, and I walked in one morning and heard we’d been traded with a typewriter to be named later,” Neil Woelk says with a laugh. “I think that tells you how valuable the paper was.” Scripps brought Colleen Conant from Naples, Fla., to replace Harold Higgins. See HISTORY, 30

Congratulations to the Daily Camera for 125 years of keeping our community connected.Your support since the beginning — at the launch of “I Have a Dream” in 1990 and over the subsequent 25 years has allowed us to help more than 800 youth from low-income backgrounds achieve in school, college and their careers — helping Dreamers become achievers, one child at a time.

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“It was known in the industry as the small city daily that acted like and performed like a metropolitan newspaper,” says Conant, who stepped down in 2003 and went on to join the Community Foundation Serving Boulder County. “I was fortunate to be there during the years before the industry changed forever. It was a thrill to work with such talented writers and editors and photojournalists and designers.” There was a major turnover in long-time newsroom personnel toward the end of the decade when Knight-Ridder decided to sell the paper. “I felt like everybody I knew was leaving,” says former reporter Linda Cornett, who left in 1998. “I loved the Camera. I loved the people I worked with. I’ve discovered since then that there are not a lot of jobs where you get to spend your day working with such smart, funny, courageous people.” The late 1990s were also when the art of photography took its most radical turn since color film. The Camera entered the digital age and shuttered its darkroom forever. “I was a little bit resistant in the beginning because I just liked having to actually touch negatives or prints or a roll of film,” says Camera photographer Cliff Grassmick, who was hired in 1986. “But I’ve totally embraced it, and it’s a really good change. I’d much rather not have a bunch of chemical burns and the impact (of chemicals) on the environment.” Grassmick recalls how monumentally complicated — not to mention slow — it was just to get photos from the Broncos’ 1998 Super Bowl from Pasadena to Boulder. “We had to arrange for a courier to meet me at the gate of the stadium. He drove his motorcycle to the airport and handed the film off to Continental’s small-package service. Then someone from the Camera had to pick it up in Denver and take it back to process the film. I never even got to see what I was

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Bo Shaffer, right, shows Jake Zingerman, 6, the thermometer he uses to check the temperature in Grandpa Bredo’s crypt in his Nederland Tuff Shed in 2012.

shooting,” he says. No anniversary story about the Daily Camera would be complete without mentioning the (literally) thousands of kids who earned money as carriers and “crew” — door-to-door subscription sellers — over the years. Ryan Van Duzer, a Boulder High graduate who now makes his living as a travel-adventure filmmaker and TV host, started knocking on doors in sixth grade and continued through his senior year. “I was painfully shy, but I wanted to make money. I wanted a bike and I didn’t come from a family where I was paid an allowance,” says Van Duzer, 37. “The idea of me knocking on doors and talking to random people and selling the Camera was excruciating, but over time, I got better at it, learned how to joke with people, being more natural.” Beginners could earn $2 per subscription, and up to $4 as they tallied more sales. A van would pick up kids and drop them off in neighborhoods, or sometimes in front of a grocery store, and take them to McDon-

ald’s during or at the end of the shift. Van Duzer estimates he sold north of 500 subscriptions, and still remembers the year when he was the second-most successful crew kid. “I got one minute and 44 seconds in a ‘money room,’ where money was blowing around and you grabbed as much as you could,” he says. “It was a dream come true for a kid.” In 1999, the Flagstaff Star again seemed doomed. After 50 years of maintaining the star and keeping it lighted, the Public Service Co. determined it needed $15,000 in repairs. Doomsayers said that was too steep a cost. Camera editor Colleen Conant jumped in to save the star, spearheading an adopt-abulb campaign in conjunction with the Boulder Chamber of Commerce. And Boulder stepped up. “We had more than 300 families and businesses send in money from $1 to one anonymous donor who gave $5,000,” then-chamber spokeswoman Mary Huron said that November as the effort wound down. “The wonderful thing is that

people didn’t just send money. Almost every donation carried a little note, a story about the star’s importance in their life.” In all, $20,000 was raised. And the star still shines each holiday season. As a tide of Y2K doomsaying rose toward the end of 1999, Colleen Conant, along with Jill Stravolemos, who is now vice president of marketing and advertising, and Josie Heath, founder and executive director of the Community Foundation Serving Boulder County, decided to create a positive counterweight in the form of the Millennium Trust. Kicking off with an editorial on Labor Day, the trust asked Camera readers to donate the equivalent of “their last hour’s income in the century for a permanent fund in the new century.” The goal was to raise $1 million in just under four months. Stravolemos developed the marketing campaign and the Camera ran editorials, inserted donation envelopes, offered acres of ad space, and more. By Jan. 1, 2000, the trust had raised an astonishing $1.86 million from 6,100 donors — who

were promised they would never be asked again. The trust continues today, annually choosing 20 donors who determine the biggest issue facing the county and ultimately make grants of around $75,000 a year toward projects to address it. “The Camera was absolutely critical. … This wasn’t just giving us ad space,” Heath says. The Community Foundation “developed the idea, and I spoke with Colleen. I said, ‘Let’s be Thelma and Louise and let’s go off this cliff together.’ … The beauty of it is that it has been invested, it has grown. We have a really substantial endowment now.” Meanwhile, the decade ended with a (welcome) whimper when the “Y2K” doom failed to materialize, thanks in part to long months of preparation. Score one for optimism.

2000s

It wouldn’t be Boulder if a new century didn’t open with a bizarre story to attract national media attention. This time, it was the saga of the “Dildo Bandito,” who kidnapped “21 colorful ceramic penises” from the Boulder Public Library in November 2001. Artist Suzanne Walker’s “Hanging ’Em Out to Dry” was part of “Art Triumphs Over Domestic Violence,” an installation by Boulder County Safehouse in the library gallery. Citing objections to the use of his taxes and “male bashing,” the bandito, aka Bob Rowan, spirited away the phalluses, generating controversy that swamped the Camera’s letters page and the city’s email system. Rowan eventually pleaded no contest to second-degree criminal tampering. And in another bizarre story, former U.S. Marine Lance Hering triggered the most expensive manhunt in county history when he faked his disappearance in 2006. He later told police he pulled the stunt to avoid going back to Iraq. He pleaded guilty to false reporting and was given an other-than-honorable discharge from the Marines. See HISTORY, 34

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The first decade of the new century firmly cemented and strengthened Boulder as a hotbed of scientific and technological achievement and innovation. In 2005, an “impactor module” built by Ball Aerospace smashed into comet Tempel 1 at more than 20,000 miles an hour, giving new insights into comets. Boulder’s Southwest Research Institute directed NASA’s 2006 New Horizons mission, which sent a probe to Pluto carrying a cosmic dust counter built by CU students. By 2009, all the instruments on NASA’s Hubble space telescope were built by Ball. Two CU grads went into space: Jim Voss, who spent 167 days aboard the International Space Station in 2001, and, tragically, Kalpana Chawla, who died in 2003 when the space shuttle Columbia broke apart on re-entry. In 2005, Boulder entrepreneurs David Cohen, Brad Feld, David Brown and Jared Polis founded Techstars, a “global ecosystem that empowers entrepreneurs to bring new technologies to market wherever they choose to live.” But technology proved a double-edged sword earlier in the decade when the “dot-com bubble” burst, leading to the loss of thousands of jobs. Repeated bouts with wildfire and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, didn’t help. Later in the decade the Great Recession sent Boulder reeling once more, with an unemployment rate that hit 6.6 percent in 2009. Given the presence of NOAA, NCAR and top-notch climate science programs at CU, it should come as no surprise that Boulder was at the forefront of the climate debate from early on. The city passed a resolution vowing to reduce its CO2 output to levels 7 percent below 1990 levels in 2002, and voters chose to tax their own carbon emissions in 2006 and the pioneering ClimateSmart loan program in 2008. The city was a rare outpost of protest in the lead-up to President George W. Bush’s 2003

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University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill, center, begins to leave after speaking at a rally organized by his supporters, including student Nina Kane, right, on March 3, 2005, at the University Memorial Center. The rally’s theme was “Ending the Third Witch Hunt at CU,” comparing the demands for Churchill’s ouster to calls for professors to be fired for communist ties in the 1950s and for being Jewish or Catholic in the 1920s.

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Air Force ROTC cadets Kyle Reichert, left, carrying the American flag, and Mark Tuturea, with the Lt. Colonel Ellison Onizuka Squadron of the Arnold Air Society, exit the stage during a memorial for astronaut Kalpana Chawla in CU’s Glenn Miller Ballroom. Chawla died in the space shuttle Columbia explosion. She earned her doctorate in aerospace engineering from the University of Colorado’s College of Engineering and Applied Science in 1988.

invasion and occupation of Iraq, and even the 2001 war in Afghanistan. But there was no doubt that the terrorist attacks had altered American life for the long term. “Our nation will never be the same,” said retired sociology professor and head of CU’s Nat-

ural Hazards Center Dennis Miletti. “Getting on an airplane in this country until you and I die of old age will never be the same.” In local politics, the new City and County of Broomfield, approved by voters in 2001, removed some of the county’s

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most conservative voters and relegated Republicans to longterm minority status. The city of Boulder’s much beloved openspace program for the first time ran into public grumbling with its 2005 Visitor Master Plan, which some saw as an attempt to reduce access. But voters continued to support openspace taxes every time they appeared on the ballot. CU saw its share of controversies throughout the 2000s. First, with a football scandal in which recruits were plied with booze and women during campus visits. The affair took down university president Elizabeth Hoffman, who memorably tried to argue that a vulgar word for female genitalia used by coach Gary Barnett to describe female kicker Katie Hnida was a “term of endearment.” The scandal also took down a chancellor, Barnett and the athletic director. The victims of the alleged sexual assault settled with CU for $2.85 million in 2007. Another scandal erupted around sociology professor Ward Churchill, who published an essay in the wake of the Sept.

11 attacks that blamed the United States for “chickens coming home to roost.” The essay went unnoticed until 2005, when students rescinded an invitation for him to speak at Hamilton College, and the controversy went national. The regents fired Churchill in 2007 after an investigation that found he had committed academic misconduct unrelated to the essay, but the case dragged through the courts until the professor’s appeals were finally exhausted in 2013. But there was plenty of good news, as CU faculty collected its first Nobel Prizes since 1989. Physicist Carl E. Weiman shared the physics prize with National Institute of Standards and Technology scientist Eric Cornell for the discovery of Bose-Einstein condensate. Physicist John “Jan” Hall took the physics prize in 2005 for his development of laser-based precision spectroscopy. And numerous faculty members shared the 2007 Peace Prize for their work on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The Camera was buffeted by change throughout the decade. Scripps, owner of the Rocky Mountain News, and Media News, owner of the Denver Post, signed a joint operating agreement in 2001, signaling an end to their long-running war — and reducing the flow of resources to Boulder. Greg Anderson arrived to replace Conant as publisher in 2003 with a mandate to cut staff and expenses. Long-time managing editor Thad Keyes unexpectedly took a buyout in 2002. “I even surprised myself,” he says. “I had met the new CEO (of Scripps) … and I determined that the paper was going to be seriously downsized. Pride goeth before the fall, and I thought I could do that more intelligently than someone from the Rocky or Post. So I started downsizing with what seemed to me at the time to be impossible numbers. One night at midnight, staring at a spreadsheet, I See HISTORY, 35

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saw my own position and salary and realized if I eliminated that amount, it might help.” Sue Deans, who was a reporter and city editor from 1975 through 1987 and returned in 2003 as executive editor, was tasked with making it “Boulder’s newspaper, at the highest level of quality.” As circulation and advertising revenue contracted, the Camera tried all manner of innovation to protect its future. In August 2004 it launched Dirt, a new tabloid newspaper steeped in attitude, irony and mockery — the magazine didn’t shy from printing the “F-word” and its mascot was Drinky the Cat — in an effort to capture a younger audience. “The inevitable question is, ‘Do you think they’ll censor your content? After all, this is a paper put out by a big media company,’” Dirt editor David Parker told Westword. “Well, I’ve been told that’s not going to be the case, that we’ll have full editorial reign on this thing. And if we don’t, I probably won’t be doing it for long.” Despite its success, Dirt was canceled after two years, having accomplished what seemed in hindsight to be its true purpose: The Camera snatched up the Colorado Daily, which had long been the publication of choice for CU students. The newsroom, largely immune from tragedy over the years, lost two high-profile staffers. Reporter Chris Anderson was killed when he was struck by lightning on a Florida beach in 2001, and editorial page editor Steve Millard, who joined the paper as a reporter in 1986, died from cancer in 2007. “Steve’s editorial writing was remarkable not only for its deep well of knowledge and insight, but also to its adherence to logic and restraint,” then-U.S. Rep. Mark Udall said on the floor of Congress on May 19. “Steve chose to provoke thought with reason and forceful writing,

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Thousands fill Norlin Quad on the University of Colorado campus as part ot the annual 4/20 celebration in 2009.

which, in a time of increased media and political sensationalism, is a sobering reminder of the public trust held in our journalists and public servants.” In 2006, Scripps and Media News formed Prairie Mountain Publishing, which encompassed the Camera and 10 community papers in eastern Colorado, and eventually grew to include the Colorado Daily and the Lehman newspaper chain, including the Longmont Daily Times-Call. In 2009, the Rocky Mountain News sent shockwaves through the newspaper world when it lost its long war with the Post and shut down after nearly 150 years of publication. Media News, owner of the Post, took over as sole owner of Prairie Mountain Publishing. Al Manzi took over as publish-

er from Greg Anderson in June 2006 to helm the Camera through into the second decade of the 21st century. “Prior to the late 1990s the only platform for information delivery was print. Since then, our information can be viewed on digital sites and social networking sites as well as in print,” says Manzi, now in his 10th year as publisher. “The new information distribution model has made it easy for our readers to stay in touch with our reporting 24/7. That advantage is why we continue to grow our reach and audience.”

2010s

Here are the last six years, in a Boulder news nutshell: municipalization, marijuana, CU football woes, the rise of tech, presidential visits and The Flood.

As part of its continuing efforts to address climate change, the city of Boulder launched an effort to take over the electric utility franchise from Xcel Energy. In 2011 voters approved a ballot measure to move the effort forward, and did so again in 2013 by a 2-1 margin, while rejecting a rival Xcel measure to slow the municipalization effort. Although the city continued to win battles with the utility, the war was still on as of 2016, with some residents beginning to doubt that “muni” would ever come to fruition. Voters in Colorado had approved a bill to legalize the medical use of marijuana all the way back in 2000. But state and federal health officials basically shut down operations that sought to provide marijuana to

patients. Following a 2007 lawsuit by a marijuana advocacy group, the state formalized rules in 2009. That set off a freewheeling year, as scores of “dispensaries” popped up, doctors set up shop to peddle medicalmarijuana licenses, and bakers cooked up tasty “edibles” to supply the barely regulated new industry. The Legislature enacted more stringent rules the following year. But on Nov. 6, 2012, voters handily approved Amendment 64 and legalized the recreational use of marijuana. Boulder showed itself to be a pot-friendly city, thoughtfully crafting regulations to accommodate marijuana businesses even as other towns and cities banned them outright. Despite threats from federal drug-enSee HISTORY, 36

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forcement agencies and politicians to shut the business down, pot sales thrived, providing some $200 million tax revenues in just two years, with no concomitant increase in abuse problems or pot-related crime. The growing “4/20” tradition at CU, in which thousands of students toked up and chilled en masse on campus on April 20, led Playboy magazine to crown the school the “home to reefer madness.” In 2012, CU officials sought to discourage the celebration by spreading foul-smelling fish fertilizer on Norlin Quad, closing the campus and even booking an alternative event at the Coors Events Center with pot-friendly musician Wyclef Jean. Further efforts in 2013 squelched 4/20, and by the next year, legalization had removed all pretense that it was a political issue. CU’s football team fell to depths unseen since the Chuck Fairbanks era, despite signing a lucrative new deal to join the Pac-12 conference. Former Buff Jon Embree, hired to replace the disastrous Dan Hawkins as head coach, was axed after two disappointing years and replaced with Mike McIntyre in 2012. McIntyre’s Buffs compiled a 10-27 record, with a 2-25 mark in the Pac-12, in his first three years. But CU continued to excel in academics and research, especially in the sciences, having scored a $485 million NASA contract in 2008 to lead the 2013 Maven mission to Mars. (The probe reached the red planet in 2014.) The university tallied another Nobel Prize in 2012, when David Wineland won the prize in physics for his work in measuring quantum systems. Boulder’s rep as a tech capital continued to grow, inspiring Google to build a new campus near 30th and Pearl streets with room for 1,500 employees. “Our operation has been in Boulder for a long time,” said Scott Green, director of operations in Boulder. “It’s a good place to attract technical talent. The community supports things

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The Summit County Rescue team works to save Suzanne Sophocles, center, from her severely flooding home on Friday, Sept. 13, 2013, on Streamcrest Drive in Boulder.

PearlWest, a mixed-use development with an expected completion date of 2016. In September 2015 the building at 5450 Western Avenue was sold to Boulder Community Health, and the Camera moved to its current location at 2500 55th Street. While the arrival of the modern Internet, social media and virtually endless expansion and fracturing of information sources have drastically altered newspapering, in many ways the Cameraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mission remains the same as it has for 125 years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think our role is more important than it used to be,â&#x20AC;? Sebastian says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Denver TV has no Boulder bureaus, there is no Rocky Mountain News, and the Post doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come up here. So we really are the local-news source for Boulder.â&#x20AC;? And at a time when many Americans accept a 140-character tweet from a celebrity as gospel and routinely propagate counterfactual memes on Facebook, the Daily Camera holds fast to a long tradition of accountability. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about vetting. The truth,â&#x20AC;? Sebastian says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That is what

separates us from (those who) just throw something up on the Web. We need to find out what is true. When there is breaking news, we have people tweeting at us, asking why we havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t posted on the Web yet. We try to do it as fast as we can, but we still need to confirm whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening.â&#x20AC;? As it has for more than a century, the Cameraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s importance to the community goes beyond providing the news. The Camera has given literally millions of dollars in cash and in-kind support over the years to scores of charitable causes, including the Bolder Boulder, Little League, CU athletics and the Buffalo Bicycle Classic; the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Boulder International Film Festival, the Artist Series and the Colorado Music Festival; Community Food Shareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bag Hunger campaign, the Emergency Family Assistance Foundation and the I Have a Dream Foundation; the Scripps Spelling Bee and Scripps Foundation grants; the annual Pacesetter Awards; the

Millennium Trust, the Community Foundation Serving Boulder County, the Culture of Giving and even the Lafayette Oatmeal Festival. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My first impressions of the Camera were as a communityowned newspaper,â&#x20AC;? says Terry Benjamin, who served as executive director of EFAA from 1980 to 2013. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was just part of Laurie Paddockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s values at a deep level of belief, that ethic of community engagement and support. The Camera has always engaged not at a corporate level, for what it can get out of the deal, but at a truly enlightened level.â&#x20AC;? Change will keep coming, of course. And the Camera will adapt. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Camera is more important today than it was 125 years ago, and that will be the case for many years to come,â&#x20AC;? Manzi says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No one knows exactly what the next technological innovation will be that changes the news and information distribution model again. What I am sure of is that the Camera will continue to grow and adapt to whatever new model comes along.â&#x20AC;?

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The earliest editions of the Daily Camera were created with type set into forms one letter at a time.

Evolving page design The Camera’s production evolved from individual letters to hot type to digital page design By Amy Bounds • Staff Writer

he earliest editions of the Daily Camera were produced one letter at a time using moveable type. It was a labor-intensive, tedious process, as compositors set the individual letters into words, then sentences and ultimately full pages. A technical revolution occurred at the Camera in 1902, when it acquired its first Linotype machine and started using hot type, or molten lead cast into letters. Operators of the massive Linotype would type stories into the machine a line at a time. Molds of those letters and punctuation marks were then filled with molten lead, which formed lines of type that were used to build pages for the press. Hot type gave way to photocomposition in 1971, where stories were written on centralized mainframe computers and output to paper film in galley form. Once the film was developed, X-Acto knives, hot wax and pica poles were the tools of the trade. Knife wounds, while not common, were sometimes an occupational hazard at the Daily Camera in the chaos of deadlines. “It got kind of dangerous,” said Ronda Haskins, a longtime copy editor at the Camera. Headlines and story pieces were waxed, then the staff in the composing room would lay the pieces on blank page templates marked with column grids, using black border tape to make photo boxes and lines. “Paste-up was pretty fun, and I missed it for quite a while after the

industry moved on,” said Kent Shorrock, who has worked at the Daily Camera since 1980 and now is a member of the page design team. Ads were built separately and then were pasted into place on the page grids. Shorrock said his first job at the Camera included keeping track of ads that were going to be picked up from one edition and used again. “We would lift all of the pick-up ads from the page grids and then store them in large, dated manila envelopes,” he said. “If an ad was needed again, we would just rummage through envelopes.” Since everything was held together by wax, it was an ongoing battle to not lose bits that might fall off. “More than one piece of important See PRODUCTION, 44 Compositors set lines of type generated by the Linotype into pages for the press.

The Camera converted to a computerized photographic system of producing type — called "cold type" — during a modernization effort in 1971.

A staffer examines a negative being readied for print.

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Country Campbell 1890-1918

Goss Comet 1918-1939

Five presses, 116 years Camera staff

ver the years, the Daily Camera had a total of five main presses — a sixth smaller press also operated for years in the basement at the Camera, printing supplements to the main paper and other publications. The Camera ceased printing its own papers in October 2007, when it contracted out printing to a press owned by then-owners the E.W. Scripps Co. and MediaNews Group, and run by the Denver Newspaper Agency. Here’s a brief history of our press evolution. “The Passing of the Campbell” reads the headline of the editorial in the June 8, 1918, edition of the Camera. What followed was an obituary of sorts for the Boulder Daily Camera`s first printing press, a sheet-fed machine (someone had to hand-feed each sheet of paper into the press) called a Country Campbell. The press — it was powered first by water, then steam, and, in 1902, an electric motor — went into production printing the paper in 1890, when the Camera was a weekly. According to accounts, it was built for the Rocky Mountain News, which never used it. Then, in 1918, the Camera began printing on a new press, a

Goss Comet, which owner, editor and publisher L.C. Paddock, in an editorial at the time, called “a thing of beauty and joy forever.” With the Comet, the Camera`s aim was to grow to an eight-page daily edition. “It is a pleasure to regard this mechanism. No longer the tedious waits, “ Paddock wrote. “You just roll the paper on the press, pull a lever and away it goes. It cuts itself into shape as it goes and folds itself and hands itself over to the carrier boy and there you are — your evening paper ...” The Goss Comet ran from 1918 to 1939, when it was replaced by a press called the Duplex Tubular. That press —

it weighed 38 tons, was 6 feet wide and 26 feet long and could print up to 16 pages at a time and 30 papers an hour — required an addition to the Camera and led to a technological change in printing. Previously, the Camera presses printed directly from type. The Duplex used round cylinders and required metal plates formed using papier-maché like molds. Next came the Goss Universal in 1956. The Universal was installed in two waves: The first four units, capable of printing up to 32 pages at a time, were installed in 1956; another two units were installed in 1963, enabling the Camera to print up to 48 pages at a time, with up to four colors

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Daily Camera workers remove part of the Goss Comet press, readying for installation of a new press.

on eight pages. In 1973, the Goss Metro Offset was installed. The press was a behemoth, standing three stories tall, weighing 260 tons, reportedly capable of printing 80 pages in a run at a maximum speed of 60,000 copies an hour

and costing nearly $1 million. The Camera again had to make an addition to the building to accommodate that press. Of the five main Camera presses, the Goss Metro ran the longest — 34 years. It was retired Oct. 21, 2007.

Goss Universal 1956-1973 Duplex Tubular 1939-1956

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One of two new units for the Goss Universal press is maneuvered into the Camera’s pressroom under the direction of Marty Sinnott, right, press erector from the Goss Printing Press Co.. The first four units of the press were installed in 1956. This unit and a second one were installed in 1963.

Goss Metro Offset 1973-2007

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The evolution of newspaper production

Early photographs had to be etched onto pieces of metal that were mounted onto wooden blocks and assembled along with type to create pages for the press.

Continued from Page 39

type was recovered from the underside of someone’s shoes,” Shorrock said. Completed pages were photographed, then developed as fullpage-sized “More than n e g a t i v e s . Photographs one piece of required a separate negaimportant tive creation type was process. The page and phorecovered to negatives from the then were underside of m a r r i e d together and someone’s those negashoes.” tives used to burn the Kent Shorrock page designer image of the page on to aluminum plates for the press. After a short proof run, the press would stop to allow editors and reporters to check the paper for mistakes. With 40minute processing times, completely re-doing a page or pushing a deadline often couldn’t happen. In the late 1980s, the Camera left paste-up behind and went to building pages on computers electronically. That eventually allowed pages, including photos, to be sent directly to fullpage negatives. By the late 1990s, the process evolved fur-

ther and designed pages were sent directly to the aluminum press plates. The first pagination systems were so slow and clunky, Shorrock said, that paste-up might have been faster. But as systems have improved, he said, “We have gained a lot of speed and flexibility in design. “And no one has accidentally stabbed me with an X-Acto knife in years,” he added. Haskins said going digital streamlined the production process and made it easier to get breaking news into the paper. But, she said, there were advantages to a more hands-on system. “If the Internet (connection) goes down, we can’t build pages because the pagination program is Web-based,” she said. “We can’t send pages to the printing plants, because the delivery system is Web-based. If the power goes out, we can’t do anything. In the old days, you could still write stories on a manual typewriter with the light of a bicycle lamp or flashlight.” In 2007, the Camera shifted its primary printing operations to the Denver Newspaper Agency, shutting down both its main press at its Pearl Street Mall building and dismantling a smaller press off 57th Court in Boulder.

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A pressman hangs an aluminum plate on the Camera’s Goss Metro Offset press.

Shorrock remembers that the whole Pearl Street building would shake when the press was running, making it a visceral part of what it meant to work at a newspaper. “When on occasion you actually got to say, ‘Stop the press’ to update an important story or to fix error, it felt almost like being in a movie,” he said. In 2010, the Camera’s buildings sold to Los Angeles-based Karlin Real Estate for $9 million. Without the need for space for a printing press, the Camera moved to smaller office buildings in Boulder, first 5450 Western Ave. and now 2500 55th St. The design team is about the same size as in past years, but now is centralized in the Camera’s newsroom. Digital page design allows the design team to lay out the pages for 11 different newspapers, both local papers and some located around the state — including the Lamar Ledger, A Camera staffer uses a large camera to take a picture of a photograph, which created a negative used for making the printing plate. that’s about 230 miles away.

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Stephen King, the film critic Boulder’s Daily Camera didn’t hire

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Top: Stephen King, seen in a promotional photo for the television adaptation of his novel “Under the Dome,” wrote to the Daily Camera in 1974 offering to review films for the newspaper. The future bestselling author — a Boulder resident at the time — even included two sample reviews. The paper’s editors didn’t take him up on that offer.

Living in Boulder in 1974, author offered to review movies for the paper By Matt Sebastian • Staff Writer

or more than four decades, writings under the most famous byline the Daily Camera never published have languished in the newspaper’s archives: a pair of reviews by a young would-be film critic named Stephen King. Yes, that Stephen King.

In September 1974, while living with his family in south Boulder’s Martin Acres neighborhood, the 26-year-old writer and future master of horror mailed a typewritten letter to the Camera’s features editor. It was an unsolicited — and notoriously unaccepted — offer to review a film or two a week for Boulder’s daily newspaper. King enclosed critical appraisals of Sam Peckinpah’s “Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia” (“a merciless dissection of human greed”) and Robert Altman’s “California Split” (“a stupid gambling picture”), one of which already was screening in Boulder, the other expected shortly. “I’m offering them for publication, but also as a sort of advert i s e ment,” King wrote. “I think the city paper could use occasional movie reviews, both for the amusement of the paper’s readers and a thumbnail guide for area moviegoers — not Stephen King that any of them are obligated to accept what I write, and most won’t.” Noting that criticism should have a “local touch” and, above all else, be entertaining, King promised that, if hired, he’d “hope to review lightly, sometimes with my tongue tucked firmly into my cheek, and provide that entertainment.” “I don’t want to write snotty avant-garde reviews of obscure foreign films,” he continued, “but I would like the chance to shake down what’s playing at the Boulder or the Fox or the Basemar Twin Cinemas once or twice a week.”

“I don’t want to write snotty avantgarde reviews of obscure foreign films.”

‘Succession of stupid movies’ King’s review of “Alfredo Garcia” — which runs just over a page, and includes one small, handwritten edit — praises Peckinpah as one of America’s great directors, and compliments star Warren Oates.

After reeling off the wide variety of violence featured in what’s now a cult classic, King observes it all “might have amounted to so much cheap exploitation in the hands of a lesser director, but under Peckinpah’s sure hand, ‘Alfredo Garcia’ becomes a merciless dissection of human greed, a black comedy where Oates ends up stuffing dry ice into the bag which contains Garcia’s head and plonking it in his shower to keep it fresh.” The young novelist was less kind to Altman, calling him “a smart director who has made an amazing succession of stupid movies since ‘M*A*S*H,’ his masterpiece.” King didn’t like the gambling comedy “California Split,” either. “It would really be more exciting to stay home and get up a penny-ante game of your own,” he concluded in his threeparagraph review. King closed his letter to the Camera with a final plea. “And by the way,” he wrote, “I work cheap.”

celebrity, the newspaper’s failure to hire the writer had become newsroom lore. “The story was well known at the Camera when I got there in ’85,” said John Lehndorff, who worked as the paper’s food editor and columnist until 2000. Sue Deans, a journalist at the Camera from 1977 to 1987 who returned to serve as the paper’s editor for four years beginning in 2003, knows it well. “I ran across (King’s letter) once when I was looking for something in the early ’80s,” Dean said, recalling a trip to the newsroom library, where old clippings, photographs and other historic material were archived. “I was looking in some files, and there was this letter from Stephen King, saying he’d like to write reviews for the paper,” she said. “What I didn’t know was whether it was the same Stephen King who’d gone on to become very famous. “I asked Laurie,” Deans said, referring to Paddock, “and he said, ‘Yeah.’” Newsroom lore (Attempts to query King The pitch failed to land. through his agent and book pub“He applied and we turned him licists, and even directly via Twitdown,” Laurence “Laurie” Paddock, who served as the Cam- ter, were unsuccessful.) era’s editor from 1960 until his ‘A happy year living retirement in 1992, recalled on 42nd Street’ recently. “We didn’t have a job for King and his family lived in a him.” Looking back on the episode house on South 42nd Street for decades later, Paddock conced- about a year, during which time ed it was just as well the newspa- he wrote “The Shining,” with its per didn’t hire the soon-to-be-su- iconic Overlook Hotel famously based on the Stanley Hotel in perstar horror writer. “He couldn’t have gone on like Estes Park. “We came very close to living that,” Paddock said. “He’s a novelist making millions of dollars here the rest of our lives rather and he wouldn’t have made that than going back to Maine,” as a newspaper reporter. But it King told the audience at Chauwould have been nice to have tauqua Auditorium during a him among our alumni.” 2013 event to promote “DocKing, of course, was far from a tor Sleep,” his sequel to “The household name at the time he Shining.” lived in Boulder and offered his “(But) it seemed like services to the Camera. there were a lot of people As noted in his letter, King’s from IBM, and we didn’t fit first published novel, “Carrie,” with them; a lot of people was out in hardback at the time from CU, and we didn’t fit (it wouldn’t be a smash until its with them. And a lot of paperback release in 1975), and a Republicans, and we didn’t fit second book — “Jerusalem’s with them.” Lot,” eventually retitled “Salem’s Boulder would figure into sevLot” — was due the following eral of King’s bestsellers, from summer. By the 1980s, with King having “The Shining” and its sequel to become a literary and cinematic the author’s post-apocalyptic

magnum opus, “The Stand,” in which the book’s heroes converge under the Flatirons while the forces of evil settle in Las Vegas. In 1987’s “Misery,” author Paul Sheldon — played by James Caan in the hit film adaptation — finishes his latest novel, as is his tradition, at the Hotel Boulderado. A Camera reporter wrote to King about this detail, and received a belated response in August 1988, a letter that also remains in the newspaper’s archives, now housed at Boulder’s Carnegie Branch Library for Local History. “I know the Boulder area, because my wife and family and I spent a happy year living on 42nd Street, in the Table Mesa area,” King wrote. “The reason Paul Sheldon chose to finish all his books at the Boulderado is because that’s the place I’d go to finish mine, if I were a man in his position (divorced, no kids)... or maybe the Stanley, in Estes Park, although the views from the Stanley are maybe a little too spectacular for complete concentration.”

A second stab at ‘Alfredo Garcia’

Camera, of course, did absolutely nothing to hinder King’s writing career. He’s gone on to pen more than 50 novels spanning genres from horror and fantasy to suspense, mystery and crime fiction — a bibliography boasting collective sales that exceed 300 million. Additionally, dozens of his books and short stories have made it to the big screen, most notably the acclaimed films “The Shining,” “Stand By Me” and “The Shawshank Redemption.” And, almost exactly 35 years after sending his sample review to the Camera, King got his chance to laud “Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia” in print. In a 2009 column in Entertainment Weekly devoted to his Top 20 video-store rentals “that never disappoint,” King slotted “Alfredo Garcia” at No. 9. His review the second time around? “Warren Oates as the grimmest, grittiest small-time bad guy ever. This is the cinematic equivalent of Cormac McCarthy’s ‘Blood Meridian.’”

Staff Writer Alex Burness Getting snubbed by the Daily contributed to this report.

Read King’s letters, reviews Visit dailycamera.com to read Stephen King’s two letters to the Daily Camera, as well as two never-before-published movie reviews he penned as samples of his work.

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Daily Camera blunders: The ones that got away By Whitney Bryen • Staff Writer

n a newsroom where articles are often researched, written and laid out in a matter of hours, mistakes are inevitable. Human error is often the culprit, and in the world of print journalism, these goofs, occasionally stamped across a newspaper’s front page, are impossible to erase or forget. In the Daily Camera’s 125-year tenure, journalists and editors have been responsible for more than a few blunders. Some are shameful. Others are humorous. And all are embarrassing for an organization in which accuracy is a priority. Here is a small smattering of bloopers that have slipped by Daily Camera reporters and editors over the years. Tragic typos Misspellings seem to take the cake for the paper’s most frequent fails. A few gems include “momentos” rather than mementos, “climage” instead of climate, “sence” rather than sense and “Schiwnn” instead of Schwinn in a business page headline. In the 1980s, a recurring sports piece titled “How the Top 20 Fared” once included a perfectly misplaced “t” leaving readers with a feature called “How the Top 20 Farted.” Longtime Daily Camera photographer Cliff Grassmick recalled the mistake and speculated that if it had been made in the digital age “It certainly would have gone viral.” The slip reportedly made a latenight talk show’s Headlines segment, which might have been the closest thing at the time to “going viral.” Then there was the edition on Labor Day 2000, when the Daily Camera printed the same story about companies struggling to find American workers in both its Employment and

People & Places sections. Apparently, this story was not to be missed. In 2001, an above-the-fold, front-page headline read “Spacecraft lands on asteriod.” The mistake was discovered after the paper went to press. The press was stopped and the misspelling corrected for the remaining print copies.

Photobombs

image is the sign Uncle Sam is holding, which reads, “Stop me before I kill again.” Less than a year later, on April 24, 2002, another hand photobombed an image once again depicting protesters — this time students opposing a French leader in Paris. Clearly visible in the top right corner of the Associated Press photo printed on the Camera’s Nation & World page is a hand flipping the camera the bird, upside-down. Cue childish giggles.

While words tend to be more susceptible to mistakes, photographs are not exempt from the occasional oops. On May 12, 2001, the largest photo on the Camera’s frontpage featured a photobomb that can only be described as awkward. In the upper center of a photograph of death penalty opponents, a man wearing a giant Uncle Sam puppet punches his arm out in protest from beneath the puppet’s pants. That’s right, his arm is erect, The Barker blunder coming directly out of the puppet’s red, white and blue botDespite a dam, reservoir and toms, rendering the sexual park displaying the name of innuendos endless. one of Boulder’s most influenAdding to the uncomfortable tial women, the Daily Camera

still managed to misspell Hannah Barker’s name in her 1918 obituary. The headline of Barker’s obituary following her death from influenza read “Noted woman, Hannah Bakre, dead” and made for an embarrassing mistake in the Daily Camera tribute. The Barker Meadow Reservoir, completed in 1910 on Barker’s ranch, is just one of Barker’s namesakes, including the rehabilitated Hannah Barker House owned by Historic Boulder. Barker moved to Boulder in 1869 and was a wealthy widow who contributed financially to Chautauqua and the Boulder Public Library and donated

land for a small Boulder park, also named after her, according to boulderhistory.org. Barker taught in the newly formed Boulder School District and served as a bank director, president of the Fortnightly Club, founding member of the Women’s Club of Boulder and deaconess of her church, according to the website. Barker was 74 when she died.

Dummy headlines distributed Dummy type is often used as placeholders to remind reporters and editors to add a headline, caption or teaser to the See BLUNDERS, 49

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Printed proof of our goofs Continued from Page 48

page. They’re also breeding grounds for oversights. “Headline here please” and “Hammer Head” are just a couple of examples of automated titles that have slipped past staff and made it into print. But personalized dummy type placeholders written by staff have led to some even more blush-worthy results. Thad Keyes, who worked for the Camera from 1977 to 2001 ending his tenure as managing editor, recalls a horrific slip in the late 1970s that few readers ever saw. Computers had just been introduced in the Daily Camera newsroom, adding chaos to an already-hectic, deadline-driven staff who were transitioning from traditional typewriters and IBM Selectrics, electronic typewriters. “We were trying to figure out an entirely new technology while simultaneously doing the daily job of writing and editing on deadline,” Keyes wrote in an email. “So, everyone had little shortcuts and tricks to get the work done.” One of the shortcuts used by Keyes’ city editor at the time was to write a dummy headline while the editor contemplated a punchier title. As deadlines approached for what was then an afternoon paper, the editor got busy with other tasks and forgot to rewrite the teaser for an article on teenage pregnancy in Boulder scheduled to run that weekend. Convenience stores, which received the earliest editions of the paper, included the placeholder “Perverts on the Rampage!” Keyes was immediately dispatched by his editor to retrieve papers that included the insensitive teaser for a story Keyes described as a “sensitive and probing article about local youth.” Most of the papers were retrieved and replaced with corrected copies before many readers caught the oversight, Keyes said.

The blizzard blooper A strong El Niño brought record snowfall to Boulder in 1982, which meteorologist Matt Kelsch recently called the “infamous Christmas Eve blizzard.” On Christmas Day 1982, the Daily Camera’s front page featured a story saying the storm dumped 2 feet of snow on parts of Boulder County. The accompanying photo showed a woman skiing on a snow-covered street in Boulder. The headline read, “White Christmas Arrives With a Vengeance.” “A deadly storm, one of the strongest ever to smash into the Front Range in December, shut down virtually everything Christmas Eve,” the story began. The following day, Dec. 26, the Camera’s front page carried seemingly contradictory coverage. “Boulder Spared Brunt of Paralyzing Storm” read the lead headline, barely visible through the window of the snow-buried newspaper sales box.

be Wrobleuski’s 45-year-old daughter, according to a correction that ran in the paper the following week. The caller claimed that Wrobleuski died in a car crash in Boston. “Verification efforts by the Camera failed to confirm the reported death,” according to the correction. After the error was brought to light, official sources in Boston told the Camera that there was no record of the traffic death. A new policy requiring conPolicy born firmation through a death cerof premature obituary The Daily Camera’s death tificate or verification by the confirmation policy was born funeral home followed the misin 1983 following the wrongful take. publication of an obituary for Faux pas from France resident Ione Wrobleuski, who Corrections related to a at the time was alive and well. small travel feature that ran in The obituary ran on Sept. 20, 2002 might have used more 1983, based on information paper and ink than the original from a woman who claimed to piece.

The “Postcards From Our Readers” piece included a photo and single-sentence caption that misspelled the name of the French mountain Mont-SaintMichel. The Camera ran a correction that changed the original spelling, but was still incorrect. A second correction ran with the intent of correcting the correction. But the spelling of the mountain was unchanged from the first correction to the second. In the third correction, the Daily Camera finally got it right. “In the Daily Camera’s neverending quest to correctly spell the name of a certain mountain in France, we cite two sources: Rand McNally New International Atlas: Mont-Saint-Michel or Le Mont-Saint-Michel, and World Book Encyclopedia:

Mont-Saint-Michel,” the correction read. “The name was originally misspelled in a Travel postcard last Sunday and in two subsequent corrections.” Umph.

Lemonless lemon meringue Recipes by local chefs and homemakers have long been a part of the Daily Camera’s content — and, occasionally, lend themselves to food faux pas. Traditional lemon meringue pie recipes call for the juice and zest of at least one lemon, but Daily Camera reader David Shomper remembers a pie recipe from “years ago” that lacked lemons. Shomper’s suspicions were confirmed the following day when the Daily Camera ran a correction with the missing ingredient.

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Boulder’s history preserved one clipping, one photo at a time By Mitchell Byars Staff Writer

or 125 years, the Daily Camera has been putting out a paper detailing news, events and the everyday moments of people in the Boulder community. In case you are keeping track, that is a lot of clippings. Luckily for readers who didn’t happen to be keeping a scrapbook for the past century, decades of Boulder’s history through the eyes of the Camera are preserved and available to the public at the city of Boulder’s Carnegie Branch Library for Local History at 1125 Pine St. More than 100 years of archived material was moved to the library when the Daily Camera relocated from its downtown location in 2011. With that transfer, years of history moved out of a secondfloor back room deep within the newspaper’s old building on Pearl Street into public view. “When we were confronted with what to do with the collection at the time of our move from our historic downtown location, there really was only one option: The collection must be preserved,” said Camera executive editor Kevin Kaufman. “We’re thankful we were able to accomplish that in collaboration with the city of Boulder and the Carnegie Library.” The Camera’s previous owner, The E.W. Scripps Co., reportedly valued the paper`s archives at $1 million in 1997. When it was placed on permanent loan with the Carnegie, its worth was more on the order of $1.5 million, according to Kaufman. The vast Camera collection includes decades of yellowed

of articles that cover their contribution to Boulder’s history.” Carol Taylor, who served as the Camera’s librarian from 1998 through 2007 and still writes a history column for the paper, remembers working with the archives at the paper and still goes to the Carnegie at least once a week to research. “It’s a museum-quality collection,” she said. “It’s rare material that is so important to Boulder’s history. Having it preserved will be so valuable in the future.” Taylor said some of her favorite items are articles and pictures chronicling the hippie movement in Boulder in the ’60s, as well as the scientific community beginning its move Paul Aiken / Staff Photographer into the city. Linda Saport inspects newspaper clippings from the Daily Camera archives at the Carnegie Branch “There is all kinds of great Library for Local History recently. stuff that gives us Boulder’s history,” Taylor said. “There newspaper clippings, bound are just so many interesting volumes of full editions going facts that I’ve found.” back to 1891, stacks of photoAnyone who wishes to graphs, photo negatives and peruse the archives should call slides, and reel upon reel of or visit the library to request microfilm. their topic during its normal “The Camera archives are business hours, from 1 to 5 perhaps the most complete p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to historical record of Boulder 3 p.m. Saturdays. The library through the decades, reaching is not open Sundays. well beyond the day-to-day All of the articles and photodoings of the local government graphs may be photocopied, but also documenting the daily while reproductions of the lives of the city’s residents, photos can be done by library births, marriages, deaths, the staff. evolution of its businesses, “We’re thankful the Paddock Boulder’s entertainment and family was so insightful to prenightlife, its growth and develserve Boulder’s history when opment,” Kaufman said. “It is a it began this collection and record that deserves being thrilled that the Camera Camera file saved.” archives are in the care of Library staff and volunteers Materials on about 200,000 subjects (at the time this photo was taken Wendy Hall and her staff at the in the early 1970s) — people, places, events, were kept in filing spent three years organizing cabinets in the Daily Camera’s library. These exact file cabinets — still Carnegie Library here in Boulthe archives and removing der,” Kaufman said. “They jam-packed with newspaper clippings and photos — were moved to material that did not relate to the Carnegie Branch Library for Local History when the collection was have done tremendous work to Boulder County to make the placed on permanent loan there in 2011. organize, catalog and preserve collection easier to access. this wonderful collection — it “The Camera collection is jects, and events that appeared Library. “People who are well- truly is a treasure — and make it available to our community arranged alphabetically to in the paper,” said Wendy Hall, known in Boulder’s history include people, places, submanager of the Carnegie might have an entire envelope now and for the future.”

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Community recognition Camera’s prestigious Pacesetter Award honors significant community contributors Camera staff

reated by the late Janet Chusmir when she was the Camera’s publisher and presented since 1985, the prestigious Pacesetter Awards recognize people who have made significant contributions to the community in the areas such as arts and entertainment, business, community service, education, health and medicine, the environment and quality of life. In 1999, then-executive editor and publisher Colleen Conant opened the event to the public. The following year, she added a “youth” category. Conant was presented with the first “Luminary Award” in 2004. Laurence “Laurie” Paddock, longtime Camera editor and who was instrumental in ensuring the Pacesetter Awards continue to this day, was only the second recipient of that honor in 2014. Worthy citizens are nominated by the public for Pacesetter Awards. Winners are selected by the prior year’s Pacesetter class. The Camera will honor the 2015 Pacesetters at a luncheon this fall. For a nomination form, contact Jill Stravolemos at jill@dailycamera.com

1985 Bruce Alexander — Business William Cohen — Arts/Entertainment Ruth Correll — Community Service Dan Culberson — Arts/Entertainment Marcia Lattanzi-Licht — Community Service Brenda Lyle — Community Service Phyllis Perry — Community Service Dr. Charles Scoggin — Community Service Ray Tallman — Community Service

Naomi Grothjan — Education Randy Gunnoe — Community Service G. Dale Meyer — Business Walter Orr Roberts — Science/Medicine

1987 Mark Addison — Arts/Entertainment Alexander Bracken — Business Sheryl Freeman — Education Phoebe Norton — Science/Medicine Homer Page — Community Service Ricky Weiser — Environment

1988 Frank B. Day — Business Dr. Firmon E. Hardenbergh — Science/Medicine Josie Heath — Environment/Quality of Life Willis Knierim — Education Oswald Lehnert — Arts/Entertainment Janet S. Roberts — Community Service

1989 Camera file

Brenda Lyle, head of the San Juan Learning Center, was honored with the Pacesetter Award in community service in 1985, the first year the awards were presented.

1986 Giora Bernstein — Arts/Entertainment Pete Grogan — Environment

JoAnn Dufty — Environment/Quality of Life Marda Kirn — Arts/Entertainment Howard C. Klemme — Community Service Denis Nock — Business John R. Taylor — Education Joyce Thomson — Science/Medicine

1990 Margaret M. Brooks —

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The 2014 Pacesetter Award trophies Community Service Cindy Carlisle — Arts/Entertainment Thomas R. Cech — Science/Medicine Walter Jessel — Environment Stuart Takeuchi — Business Doug and Judy Williams — Education

1991 Ann Compian — Medicine/Health Kathy Coyne — Community Service Carol Grever — Business Hester McNulty — Environment/Quality of Life Thomas E. Morgan — Arts/Entertainment Helene Willis — Education

1992 Jerry Aronson — Arts/Entertainment Dr. Peter Dawson — Science/Health/Medicine William W. Reynolds — Business Sherri Stephens-Carter — Education John M. Taylor — Community Service Keith Zook — Community Service

1993 Nancy Smith — Arts/Entertainment LaVern M. Johnson — Community Service Gayle K. Mertz — Education Dr. Carolyn Shepherd — Science/Medicine/Health Dr. Dean Stull — Business Peggy Wrenn — Environment/Quality of Life

1994 Nick and Helen Forster — Environment/Quality of Life Kathleen Garcia — Community Service Jo Ann C. Joselyn — Science/Medicine/Health Jon F. Kottke — Business Shirley A. McGuinness — Arts/Entertainment Steven B.Walsh — Education

1995 Betty Chronic — Environment/Quality of Life Caryn Ellison — Business Thomas Fiester — Science/Medicine/Health Hass Hassan — Business Donovan Hicks — Business Timothy Leifield — Community

Service Fran Ryan Raudenbush — Education Barbara Shark — Arts/Entertainment

1996 Barbara and Karl Anuta — Community Service Barbara Demaree — Arts/Entertainment Kurt Firnhaber — Environment/Quality of Life Margaret S. Hansson — Business Brus Westby — Education Anne Wylie Weiher — Science/Medicine/Health

1997 Jean Bonelli — Education Christopher Brauchli — Arts/Entertainment Jerry Donahue — Business Barbara Hancock — Science/Medicine/Health Rev. Bruce MacKenzie — Community Service Charles L. Stout — Environment/Quality of Life

1998 Dr. Richard Bedell — Medicine

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Pacesetter Awards Continued from Page 52 Betty Lane — Community Service Tom Masterson — Arts/Entertainment Gary Stahl — Health Ron Stewart — Environment/Quality of Life Jack Stoakes — Business Jim Williams — Education

1999 Mary Axe — Community Service Jane Butcher — Community Service Jo Anne Lamun — Arts/Entertainment Vern Seieroe — Community Service Teresa Steele — Education James Swaeby — Business Sherry Wasserman — Science/Medicine/Health

2000 Clair Beckmann — Business Leticia Alonsode Lozano — Education Kitty deKieffer — Community Service Robin Bolduc and Bruce Goguen — Quality of Life Shalini Low-Nam — Youth Shari Malloy — Environment Marta Moreno — Community Service Malaika Pettigrew — Arts/Entertainment Enrique Rojas — Youth Dr. George Russell — Science/Medicine/Health Julianna Mattingly Steinhauer — Community Service

2001 Daniel L. Albritton — Science Barbara Brenton — Arts/Entertainment Alonit Cohen — Youth Joe Fox — Quality of Life Bob and Diane Greenlee — Community Service Eric Lombardi — Environment Virginia Patterson — Lifetime Achievement Julie Phillips — Education John Sackett — Medicine/Health Sarah Studer — Youth Roy Young — Business

2002 Shirley Betancourt-Conley — Community Service/Group Benita Duran — Community Service/Group Nino E. Gallo — Community Service/Group Richard Garcia — Community Service/Group

David M. Gilman — Business Michael H. Glantz — Environment Caroline Gonzales — Community Service/Group Norris Hermsmeyer — Lifetime Achievement Robert G. Mann — Humanitarian Aya Medrud — Quality of Life Emma Pena-McCleave — Community Service/Group Clara Perez-Mendez — Education Marta Moreno — Community Service/Group Carmen Ramirez — Community Service/Group Peter Salas — Community Service/Group Linda Shoemaker — Community Service Angie Thurston — Youth John A. Torres — Science/Medicine/Health Exal Velez-Stanton — Community Service/Group Gary A. Zeff — Arts & Entertainment

2003 Bill de la Cruz — Education Marcelee Gralapp — Arts & Entertainment Janet Heimer — Community Service Joe McDonald — Environment Philip Shull — Business Kurt Van Raden — Youth Marlene Wilson — Quality of Life

2004 Sue Coffee — Arts & Entertainment Colleen Conant — Luminary Award Ann Cooper — Community Service Doris E. Hass — Quality of Life Spencer Jemelka — Youth Andrew Pruitt — Science/Medicine/Health Dorothy Rupert — Lifetime Achievement John L. Tayer — Business Lynn Widger — Education Ruth M. Wright — Environment

2005 Dan Corson — Quality of Life Marty Durlin — Arts & Entertainment Spencer Imel — Youth Jerry Lee — Business Pete Leibig — Science/Medicine/Health Sally Martin — Community Service Timothy R. Seastedt — Environment

Joseph Ryan — Science/Medicine/Health Timothy Charles Snyder — Arts/Entertainment

2009 Roxanne Bailin — Quality of Life Mikl Brawner — Environment Michelle Carpenter — Education Donna Gartenmann — Arts & Entertainment Richard Lopez — Community Camera file Service Megan Schwartz — Youth Richard Foy, right, winner of the Marissa Shevins — Youth Pacesetter Award in business in 2008, congratulates fellow winner Stephen Tebo — Business Christine Yoshinaga-Itano — Matthew Liston, who also was Science/Medicine/Health honored in 2008 in the youth category.

2010

Lee Shainis — Education Oakleigh Thorne II — Lifetime Achievement

2006 Genevieve Aguilar — Youth Albert Bartlett — Lifetime Achievement Ardie Dickson — Education Tom Eldridge — Business Audrey Fishman-Franklin — Community Service Jean Hodges — Quality of Life Carol McLaren Schott — Science Karen Ripley — Arts/Entertainment Beau Sam — Youth Dr. Charles Steinberg — Medicine/Health Colleen Williams — Environment

2007

Jerry Aronson — Education Janet Beardsley — Community Service Elizabeth J. Black — Arts & Entertainment Maggie Kopel — Youth Marsha Moritz — Quality of Life Darla Schueth — Science/Medicine/Health Will Toor — Environment

2011 Joan Brett — Business Gwen Dooley — Environment Paula DuPre’ Pesmen — Community Service Richard Garcia — Education Cecelia Kluding-Rodriguez — Youth Randy and Amy McIntosh — Arts & Entertainment LeRoy Moore — Science/Medicine/Health John Wallace — Quality of Life

Joyce Davies — Lifetime Achievement Richard Devin — 2012 Arts/Entertainment Alan Cass — Lifetime Kaye Howe — Community Service Catherine Long Gates — Environment LeLe Manning — Youth Bob Morehouse — Business Pete Palmer — Science Jared Polis — Education Marietta Vigil Gonzales — Quality of Life Richard Warner — Medicine/Health

Achievement Janet Ruth Chu — Environment Deborah Conley — Quality of Life Cyndra Dietz — Education Kathy Kucsan — Arts & Entertainment Richard Polk — Business Claire T. Riley — Community Service Linda Weber — Science/Medicine/Health

2013 Logan Abbott — Youth Terry Benjamin — Lifetime Achievement Doris Candelarie — Education Stephen Christopher — Arts & Entertainment Win Franklin — Community Service Carlos Garcia — Business Constance Holden — Medicine/Health David J. Nesbitt — Science Joan Raderman — Quality of Life Ed Self — Environment

2014 Helen Balis — Science/Medicine/Health Genevieve Gregorich — Youth Spenser Havlick — Lifetime Achievement Dave and Dee Hight — Business Laura McDonald — Education Laurence Paddock — Luminary Award Karen Romeo — Arts & Entertainment Rafael Salgado — Environment Cynthia Schmidt — Community Service Tara Schoedinger — Quality of Life

2008 Marsha Caplan — Community Service Jean Dubofsky — Lifetime Achievement Pamela Duran — Education Richard Foy — Business Stephen R. Jones — Environment Matthew Liston — Youth Jenna Machado — Youth Margie Rotkin — Quality of Life

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