West Colfax (Denver, Colo.)
Found in 789 Collections and/or Records:
West End Press, No. 77, 1935 August 2
Issue no. 77. News coverage includes: an editorial emphasizing the urgent need for new street lighting along West Colfax Avenue, and activities of World Zionist Congress, Cheltenham Sweet Shoppe, Rude Center, and Ostrover Society.
West End Press, No. 78, 1935 August 9
Issue no. 78. News coverage includes: Councilman Harry Rosenthal's response to an editorial about the need for adequate street lighting on West Colfax Avenue, and activities of West Denver Hebrew School Ladies Auxiliary, Rude Park Community Night, and Beth David Sisterhood.
West End Press, No. 79, 1935 August 16
Issue no. 79. News coverage includes: announcement of a program by H. Leivick at the Spivak Educational Institute, and Junior Hadassah, Guldman Center, Yad Achas Auxiliary, and the Hebrew Educational Alliance.
West End Press, No. 80, 1935 August 23
Final issue (no. 80). News coverage includes: increased demand for new street lights on West Colfax Avenue and the announcement that Sylvia Kantrowitz won the Cheltenham Sweet Shoppe's Most Popular Girl on the West End Contest, and activities of Ostrover Synagog, the newly created Institute of Human Relations, Hebrew Educational Alliance, and Junior Hadassah. Includes image of Adolf Hitler speaking at an event in Rosenheim, Germany.
West Side Reunion Insert, June 28, 1985
Folder contains a forty page section in the Rocky Mountain Jewish News with articles about growing up on the West Side of Colfax in Denver, the 1985 reunion, and congratulatory advertisements.
West Side Reunion Records
West Side Reunion Skit and Interviews, 1979 July 15
Recording of a skit performed at the West Side Reunion on July 15, 1979 and oral histories conducted at the event with individuals who grew up on the West Side, reminisces of block parties and neighborhood activities in the 1950s and 1960s. Interviewees discuss the relationship between the West Side and the East Side Jewish communities.
William Goldblatt and Family, 1914
William Goldblatt and his family stand on the porch of their home at 1473 Newton Street in Denver, Colorado. Goldblatt followed an unusual profession for a Denver Jewish citizen when he became a local fireman. Later, he became a Denver police officer and wore badge number one. He is pictured here in police uniform with his wife, Helen, and children Ruth and Marvin.
X-Ray Equipment at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, circa 1941
X-ray equipment at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish workingmen along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado. It was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside Denver.