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Fannie Mae Duncan and friends stand on the street in front of the Cotton Club in 1955. The neon sign on the building reads “Duncan’s Cafe Bar Lounge.” Duncan graduated from the integrated Colorado Springs High School (now Palmer High) in 1938, the first in her family to get a diploma, according to a Nov. 5, 2018, Gazette article. She went into business for herself at age 26. Duncan bought the building that would become Duncan’s Cafe and later the Cotton Club across from the Antlers hotel, when she was just 28. Photograph by Lew Tilley, Courtesy of Pikes Peak Library District, 099-10714
AAdmAn club members ascend Pikes Peak along the Pikes Peak Cog Railway tracks, circa 1925. The new exhibit “COS@150,” a timeline of the city’s history told through 150 objects, opened Jan. 30 at Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum. It’s part of the city’s yearlong string of events celebrating the sesquicentennial.
Courtesy of Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum
Courtesy Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum
Today
A mixture of rain and snow showers. Temps nearly steady in the mid to upper 30s. Winds N at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of precip 40%. Higher wind gusts possible..
Tonight
Snow showers will become more widely scattered overnight. Low around 25F. Winds N at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of snow 40%. Updated: March 23, 2021 @ 1:14 pm
A rendering of the 158-room Ivywild Hotel and campus planned for South Tejon Street. Development is set to begin this year. Courtesy Kimley Horn Engineering
An urban renewal project launched in 2015 has created more than a few reasons for residents and visitors in Colorado Springs to stop and dine or even to relocate to the once blighted and crime-ridden neighborhoods along South Nevada Avenue.
Construction workers are currently moving dirt on another, which is being billed as the crown jewel in a massive makeover of the district: A luxury hotel and campus that will take up 17 lots at 1619 S. Tejon Street.