Old Town Hot Springs Memory Project
For centuries people have been soaking in the hot water flowing from a hillside overlooking the Yampa River, on the eastern side of present-day Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The Heart Spring feeds a collection of pools, now known as the Old Town Hot Springs, but through the years this area has also been called Bath House Springs, Swim Sauna, Steamboat Health and Recreation, or just simply, "The Pool." The Old Town Hot Springs Memory Project is a collection of interviews with people who have long been associated - as employees, Board members, or 'enjoy-ers' - with the iconic downtown Steamboat springs. It is intended to be a collection that continues to grow over time. Black & White Thumbnail Images © of Tread of Pioneers Museum
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- Bud and Jane Romberg - Old Town Hot Springs Interview
- Bud and Jane Romberg discuss their move to Steamboat Springs in 1966 for Bud to take a teaching job at the Steamboat Springs High School, his 40-year tenure on the Old Town Hot Springs Board, and Jane’s entrepreneurial enterprise, The Lunch Box, the pool’s first food service.
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- Dorothy Wither Dance Card
- Dance card from the Sequoyah Club Dances Season 1920, Steamboat Springs, Colorado originally belonging to Dorothy Wither., This dance card was given to Michael J. Holloran by Linda Robinson (former owner of the building at 141 9th Street, Steamboat Springs, Colorado).
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- Eileen Allen - Old Town Hot Springs Interview
- Eileen Allen discusses moving to Steamboat in 1978, her marriage to native resident Lon Allen, raising their children, and the many community organizations she’s been involved with, including fund-raising efforts beginning in 2016 for a $10 million dollar renovation and expansion of the Old Town Hot Springs facilities in downtown Steamboat Springs.
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- Jack Sprengle - Old Town Hot Springs Interview
- Jack Sprengle talks about his family’s move to Steamboat Springs in 1941, time spent in the Army in Korea, his marriage, raising a family and his 34-year career at the Routt County National Bank. He also discusses his time spent on the Old Town Hot Springs Board, as well as service on the City and County Planning Commissions.
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- Karen Jimmerson - Old Town Hot Springs Interview
- Karen Jimmerson describes moving to Steamboat in 1969, opening the Soupçon Restaurant, and working at the Old Town Hot Springs as a fitness instructor.
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- Marian Tolles - Old Town Hot Springs Interview
- Marian Tolles talks about meeting and travelling with her future husband, George Tolles, as well as their move to Steamboat Springs in 1957. She also touches on their time at the Lowell Whiteman School and Colorado Mountain College in the earliest days of those institutions. The Old town Hot Springs played a big role in their daily lives.
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- Matt Enochs - Old Town Hot Springs Interview
- Matt Enochs talks about his job at the Old Town Hot Springs as the Facilities Director for 19 years beginning in 1998. Matt was involved with several expansions and remodels over the years, and he describes the scope of what was needed to keep the pools, fitness equipment and building running smoothly.
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- Mike Holloran - Old Town Hot Springs Interview
- Mike Holloran discusses moving to Steamboat Springs in 1972, opening a law practice downtown, and his 32-year tenure on the Board of Directors at the Old Town Hot Springs beginning in 1977.
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- Nancy Gray - Old Town Hot Springs Interview
- Nancy Gray talks about growing up in Steamboat Springs in the 1950s and 1960s, her 49-year career as a ski instructor at Steamboat Ski Resort after ski racing in her youth, teaching and coaching young swimmers, and the importance of the downtown hot springs to herself and her family.
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- Old Town Hot Springs Outdoor Pool
- Undated photograph of the south corner of the Old Town Hot Springs outdoor swimming pool taken from street level across Highway 40/Lincoln Avenue. Image displays a low cement wall along Highway 40, diving boards, a chain link fence surrounding the pool, and the pump house, along with a portion of a wooden fence stretching towards the (un-photographed pool) building. Photograph assumed to be taken by Robert (Bob) De Vries in the 1970s.