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Most of the buildings on CU’s old quad are named for past CU presidents, faculty, deans and regents. Then there’s Guggenheim.

From the 1920s and through the 1950s, a window-display mastermind joyfully created spectacular scenes in his hardware store on what is now the Pearl Street Mall. 

It wasn’t much to look at, but it was the start of a ����������ý�Ļ���Ʒ institution. The first issue of this magazine appeared as The Colorado Alumnus in May 1911.

During winter break 1971, around Christmas, a disheveled band took the Tulagi’s stage on The Hill. The heater was broken, the club was frigid, the crowd was small. One of the musicians strummed a banjo in gloves.

����������ý�Ļ���Ʒing cards, also known as calling cards, were popular among both men and women in the 19th century.

On Sept. 5, 1877, the day CU opened, Joseph Sewall was on the steps of Old Main to shake every hand.

In the early 1900s, a person could ride a train directly to and from the ����������ý�Ļ���Ʒ campus.

On the third floor of Old Main, encased in glass in an exhibition hall chronicling ����������ý�Ļ���Ʒ’s distinguished history in space, there’s a football with “Colorado” pressed into the pigskin.

A motel in Memphis. A hotel in Los Angeles. The streets of Baltimore, Chicago and Washington. Combat zones across Vietnam. The year 1968 shook with violence.

Boulder’s first nonprofit community FM station, 88.5 KGNU, began broadcasting in 1978.