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Valencia Cafe & Bar
Cheyenne, Wyo
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The raised lettering highlights the
cobalt glaze on this pretty Valencia Cafe hat.
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The Cafe was located on the same
block as the Plains Hotel in downtown Cheyenne. |
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The back
of the early 1950s postcard reads "...for the
finest in foods, dine and dance nightly...".
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A few years ago the cafe building was still
standing occupied by three businesses. |
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The left shot shows the cafe site
with the Plains Hotel in the background. The
Plains is also shot from a different angle.
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Pocatello Idaho
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Broadmoor also made advertising
pottery for the Plains
Hotel and Fossil
Cabin in Wyoming and this turquoise hat for
Pocatello, Idaho. |
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Broadmoor president Paul Genter
must have been familiar with this part of the
country. He was born in Rawlins, Wyoming in 1886,
grew up in Utah, lived in Colorado for ten years
and later returned to Utah to operate a business
until the early 1920s.
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He was also a member of the
American Automobile Association as far back as the
1910s traveling to Colorado's front range,
Seattle, Los Angeles and possibly even Michigan
before his Broadmoor years in the 1930s.
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Prior Denver
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This turquoise hat was made for the
Prior western wear store in Denver. A bucking
bronco impressed on these first three hats is
similar to Prior-Denver's bronco.
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Prior Western
Wear shirt label
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Rocky Mountain National Park
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Just west of our town of Loveland,
Colorado is Rocky Mountain National Park. |
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The park was established in 1915
and expanded over the years with the largest
addition -- the Never Summer Range -- in 1929. Its
Trail Ridge Road linking Colorado's front range to
its western slope over the continental divide was
completed in 1933.
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Broadmoor Hotel Colorado Springs.
Colo
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Broadmoor Pottery advertising items
made for the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs
are surprisingly hard to find since the hotel's
owner and founder Spencer Penrose was an early
backer of the pottery.
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This gunmetal-glazed hat is the
only "Broadmoor-Broadmoor" form we know of.
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The
hats above
with
advertising
are from
Broadmoor at
Denver and
have the same
small form as
this nice
green
Broadmoor-Springs
hat.
Colorado Springs hats are harder
to find and typically without
advertising. |
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Our
green drip-glazed hat has an
ordinary Broadmoor-Colo Spgs
ink stamp showing one potter
standing at a kick wheel and
another operating a press
mold. (click image)
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This Oxblood Broadmoor-Springs hat,
bottom dated 1936, is almost twice the size as the
others. It is otherwise plain without embossed
advertising. |
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Finally four years ago we lost the
bid on this large "1836-1936 Texas Centennial"
hat. Its bottom is
undated with a smudgy Colorado Springs ink stamp.
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The hat went for two hundred
seventy five dollars. Cary of
Wenatchee,
Washington kindly provided the closeup. |
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