Denver Stockshow-big events you remember

[aj]

I was born in the 50's but big things I remember seeing in Denver for the first time. Saw my first Chianina. Saw my first Salers and all that movement. My first black Simmental I saw. I saw Alden have a can of aresol blow up in his face and go to medical. The Horn kid won the steer show.....and the old man died just shortly. I remember dad had a good year and took me and my two brothers out and we stayed at a motel. Wow I remember we woke up and was getting ready to go and there was a tv channel that was strictly sports......I had tears in my eyes.....it was espn or some damn thing. Saw my first elevator in the motel and it was wild. I remember mother ignoring Scotts question of "what was Kitties Titty bar". Its probably generational. For some people it was probably the first time they tried marajuana. grin

 

[cowman 52]

Can't remember the year,  angus sale at the Brown palace,  guy walking through gets to watching,  want to say Jack Parnell was auctioneer, got to bidding at 25,  kept going and bought the lot,  he didn't know the bid was 25,000.  Gavel fell at 75,  he was little surprised but paid the ticket and took poession after a little trading and got in the business. 

There was a diner up Brighton in walking distance of the barn,  Joe Lewis held court there every morning,  was a boarding house just past it,  nearly all the hereford guys stayed there. 

All the Montoya bros in the stock yards bar,  the way the steps were worn down from all the foot traffic from all the years. 

The year the Charolais dyed black won the steer show,  the time Mel Long got pantsed in the middle of the angus aisle,  it was before we without an a$$ discovered suspenders, Mel didn't know whether to put down his cigarette or beer,  Baxter Black and Chris LeDoux before anyone outside
Colorado knew them.  Their routine was honed in the barn aisles. 

The chi's,  salers,  once was a big gert show,  the Beartooth show string With all the advancers, 

 

[mark tenenbaum]

These would pale to the big stuff but here goes-Winning Denver 1994 with Ub Mad Max-(he was my spoiled cute pet that got real big and very hard to handle)  Seeing Regan Bowmans daughter win the show with the steermaker hiefer BUT FIRST AND FOREMOST the champion 4S IMPACT SHAKER HIEFER ALICIEA STOVER SHOWED cant remember-maybe 1996-remains with Lucky Charm the most awesome female Ive ever seen, Seeing (got a picture) of what I think may have been WHO-Seeing Warhorse, Double Vision, and Heetseeker just sort of tied up-no fluff no puff-in the infancy of what is now an incredible display of genetics and "kinetics".Seeing the Starlake bulls-only John Sullivan could recreate a group like that-Seeing my first red Maine bull in 1994-called Napalm from California-he was incredible-till I saw him walk-times have changed, Seeing a really good dividends impact son of a KABA cow-Jan Crees from iowa had him-in 1993 I think-he was 20 years ahead of his time: and those huge mature Horned Hereford bulls from some vast Western nowhere-Seeing a big string of incredible maines from Hartman-he was the big deal-maybe even Gods own gift-MISSING THE COOLEST OF THEM ALL (from what Ive been told) SMILIN BOB O0