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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- Pat Carney - Old Town Hot Springs Interview
- Pat Carney talks about her nearly 45-year tenure as the Executive Director at the Old Town Hot Springs, beginning with her move to Steamboat Springs in 1975 after spending three winters as a ‘ski bum.’ Through the years Pat has been intimately involved with several expansion projects at the iconic downtown hot springs.
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- Pearl Stehley (photograph)
- Black and white uncredited and undated photograph (1930s or 1940s?) of Pearl Stehley standing in front of her house in the snow at 405 8th Street, Steamboat Springs, Colorado. She is wearing a long dark coat, and a white knitted or crocheted headpiece. In her left hand she's holding a pair of wooden skis that look to be almost twice as tall as she is; in her right hand a long wooden ski pole taller than her.
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- Sequoyah Club Building (photograph)
- Photograph of Michael J. Holloran Law Office, located at 141 9th Street, Steamboat Springs, Colorado. This building was the former location of the Sequoyah Club in the 1920s.
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- Susie Clark - Old Town Hot Springs Interview
- Susie Clark reminisces about falling in love with, and moving to Steamboat Springs in the early 1970s, and landing a job in 1975 at the Swim Sauna (now Old Town Hot Springs) where she worked as a lifeguard, swimming instructor, and Assistant Director until 1991.