


This
lot is culled from videos I shot back in the late 80's and early 90's.
I shot these for my own pleasure, putting groovy music to them and suchlike
never dreaming in a million years I would put the contents on public display.
Well, things DO change, then, don't they.
These were shot on a Hi-8 vidcam; and were distressingly bad;
The white balance was all off, and at those high altitudes(4000-9000 ft)
UV was a major factor- and the only copy I had was a second gen VHS.:P
which I bounced over to a DV cam. White balance was godawful on the original,
so I killed the color and tweezed brightness and contrast to get a passable
result.
These shots date from 1987-1989.
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Looking west up Ute Pass on US 24, west of Colorado Springs. |
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A truss bridge on US 24 EAST of the Springs. |
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Contrasting hard shoulder and main lanes, US 24. |
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US 24 had red pavement on this section in eastern El Paso county, CO. |
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For our railfan friends-an old(even in 1989) Alaska Railway locomotive. |
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Front on shot of the above. |
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And a side view. I think this old hoss was ready for it's last trip to the glue factory. |
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I thought I was SO Clever solarizing this snap of a bridge in Pueblo. It went south in the early 90's. This is the only pic I have of it-done in 1989. |
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Royal Gorge Bridge. Like most suspension bridges, I couldn't manage a walk across it-I have a fear of heights, and it didn't help that the wind was blowing at about a million miles an hour. I could picture myself kiting off into the Arkansas River Canyon. |
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This was as far as I got-below the first tower. :P |
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Note the flags in this shot. I wanted to CRAWL off the bridge, I was so scared. |
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A long shot from the northeast from safe solid ground. |
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This road lead into the Arkansas River Canyon, below the bridge at one time. Note the hi-standard tunnel. |
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Another one, just like the other one! |
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Concrete section of US 85-US 87. This one between the Springs and Pueblo. |
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Ute Pass, CO-US 24 looking east. |
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CO 83 between Colo. Spgs and Castle Rock |
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Tunnel on CO 67's Cripple Creek section. This tunnel is bypassed now. This is a 1989 shot. |
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Looking in the tunnel. |
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Railway Plate for the tunnel. |
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Some more CO 67 south of the tunnel. |
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Old school CO Shield. This is the only one I ever saw-located in Victor at the end of CO 67. |
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On IH 25 near Greenland. |
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IH
25 in Metro Denver, North of the IH 225 junction. This is the former Evans Avenue overpass, replaced in the T-REX project. |
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A Colorado and Southern
railway overpass just north of the previous shot. This was removed in the T-Rex Project. |
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Colorado Blvd. Overpass(I think) of IH 25. |
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CA Style gantry on the IH 25. In '89 these were on the way out, being replaced by PA style tiny gantries. |
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Going thru the 6th Ave Freeway junction in Denver-the Flyovers are from US 6 to IH 25. These were relatively new in 1989. |
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The US 6 overpass of IH 25 |
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Mile High Stadium-another casualty of time. This has been replaced by a hugely ugly structure: which you can find out about here. This site is now being "Landscaped". :P |
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A bridge w/"Hammerhead" Style pier. |
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IH 25 at JN 212. |
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Another
casualty of time, here-this was a long viaduct. It was for 16th Street, replaced recently(as of 2007) by a pedestrian bridge. |
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Advance signage for IH 76-this was before the link to IH 70 was completed. |
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Much farther north on IH 25-North of CO 1. |
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IH 25 takes a jog at a junction north of Denver. |
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Back to US 24 between Colo Spgs and Limon-here's an old bridge-now on private property. |
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IH 25 looking north from the Bijou Street Overpass(mp 142). |
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Now we time warp to 1987, looking at the US 48(IH 68 to YOU pal!) freeway from the Monroe Street overpass-west of JN 44. |
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US 40 east of Cumberland at Martin "Mountain". |
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There's the sign :) |
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Looking east on US 40 at the above location. |
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PA 31 shield in Somerset PA |
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US 40 and US 48 in the distance, Western MD |
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Huge excitement in Friendsville, MD. You'd never think that a place like this would produce a mayor that caused a scandal by exposing himself. |
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A US 48 bridge at Friendsville. |
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Looking north on MD 42 toward JN 4 on US 48 |
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The junction sign. Wonder if MD sent all these lil suckers to VA? |
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Yough River sine on US 48. |
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And the bridge for same. |
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The original National Road Cassleman River bridge. |
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The US 40(now Alt US 40) and US 48 bridges on the Casselman. |
Denver area corrections from Kevin Flynn.