The Gazette & Colorado Springs
1920-1939
1920
The Gazette installs an electronic baseball scoreboard outside Out West building. World Series crowds gather to watch the scoreboard, jamming traffic on Pikes Peak Ave.
Gazette and Evening Telegraph cost 2 cents each.
Prohibition begins. The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives women the right to vote.
1921
Fred Barr begins trail to top of Pikes Peak.
1922
Spencer Penrose starts animal collection, later known as Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.KVOR city's first radio station.
1923
T.E. Nowels becomes publisher of the Gazette and Evening Telegraph papers. Operations are combined in the Telegraph building at 18 E. Pikes Peak Ave.
'The Frozen Five' (later the AdAmAn Club) makes first climb.
KKK burns 30-foot cross on Pikes Peak.
1924
Newspaper delivery boys with routes are paid $4 per week, minus 15 cents for each complaint of non-delivery.
The Klu Klux Klan starts rival weekly paper, the Independent.
Cripple Creek Short Line railroad bed converted into auto highway called Gold Camp Road.
Barr finishes Barr trail.
1925
KKK defeated in city elections -- hate group leaves town.Colorado Spring Airport Opens.
Penrose scars Cheyenne Mountain building Cheyenne Mountain highway.
1927
Charles Lindbergh completes first trans-Atlantic solo flight.
1929
Stock market crashes.Great Depression begins.
1933
Prohibition ends.
1935
Flood on Monument Creek destroys homes and five of six city bridges, killing four.
1936
Pikes Peak Highway dedicated as toll-free state road.Alice Bemis Taylor gives city Fine Arts Center.
1937
Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo begins.
1938
Broadmoor Ice Palace opens.June hailstorm causes $250,000 worth of damage.
1939
Penrose dies.El Pomar Foundation founded.
World War II starts in Europe.