Roadside attractions -- Colorado -- Jefferson County
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Tiny Town Home Movie, circa 1931
Item — Small collection box 3, Envelope: 5
Identifier: Series-197
Scope and Contents
Home movie film of the James W. Bancker family from Summit, New Jersey, visiting Tiny Town, Colorado, and surrounding area about 1931. The film shows scenes of cars driving on a dirt canyon road along a rushing creek (possibly Turkey Creek Canyon), then the family at Tiny Town, then looking out from Lookout Mountain. Using census records and an obituary, we were able to piece together who the family is. Presumably the man (father) was James William Banker, born in London in 1874,...
Dates:
circa 1931