Romney & Ryan will be at Red Rocks Amphitheatre this week. You know who built that?

[intheflow]

FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps!

From today's Denver Post:

Red Rocks represents exactly the kind of public investment Romney and Ryan oppose. In February, Romney railed against the stimulus at a factory in Colorado Springs that took stimulus money. Next Tuesday, he’ll be speaking a national landmark built by stimulus money.

Constructed courtesy of FDR’s New Deal, or what we would now call “stimulus,” Red Rocks is to this day a public park owned by the city and county of Denver. It is the jewel of the New Deal’s investment in Colorado, as public projects built our nation’s infrastructure and helped lift us out of the Great Depression.

On a panel at the Red Rocks Visitors’ Center it says:

Red Rocks Amphitheatre was the Civilian Conservation Corps’ largest and most ambitious project. A crew of about 300 young men at any one time lived in barracks near Morrison and worked on the theatre from 1936 to 1941, with help from the National Parks Service and Works Progress Administration. They laid 10 boxcar loads of cement and put down 90,000 square feet of flagstone quarried at Lyons, Colorado. The physical structure of the facility, as well as all the finished terracing and stonework, was built by hand, without the help of any machines.

Eat that, Republicans!

[meadowlark5]

1. Red Rocks is too pretty to be tainted with their filth

[intheflow]

3. 'Tis true!

I'm thinking they're going to have to bus people in from the more conservative Western Slope to and moneyed ski towns to fill the 2000 seats.

[meadowlark5]

4. Actually the area around Red Rocks is relatively conservative

Plenty of rich folk live up and around Evergreen/Genesee area, Golden is a cowboy town, ranching still exists, albeit to a smaller degree, all around that foothills area. And then there is Highlands Ranch which isn't all that far to to the south with it's suburban sprawl and mega churches. So 2000 seats shouldn't be too hard to fill. The only deterrent is if those two pukes are worth the hassle of parking and walking to see them. It's not the easiest venue for getting to and in and out of.

[Panasonic]

11. Also the idea of R&R going up west of Denver tying up traffic is not going to please Coloradans any.

Especially if they take 6th or I-70.

No special treatments for both of these schmucks.

They have to deal with the traffic. Bumper to bumper traffic.

[CrispyQ]

2. It is a stunning venue!

Thank you for this! I did not know it's history & I live just down the road!

[Panasonic]

12. Best acoustics in the world, I'm told.

and I have never been to Red Rocks theatre before.

I've seen Red Rocks, and it's always beautiful.

[DollarBillHines]

13. I have played Red Rocks several times.

Even the on-stage acoustics simply blow you away.

The first time I played there I just kept blowing it. I play slide and 'steel and I was totally distracted. I had to go to muscle memory.

Plus, the joint is just effing beautiful.

[madamesilverspurs]

5. Ooo, can't wait to share that with a couple of folks!

Thanks for posting this, double thanks if you post it for sharing on FB...


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[intheflow]

14. Facebook is where I found it!

And shared, of course!

[EC]

6. Last night the history channel had a thing on THE MEN THAT BUILT AMERICA

I'm guessing it's part of the right's We Built This meme. Every single thing these guys "built" was with government help somewhere along the way, which of course was never mentioned. Oh, Yeah, we are to believe that Rockefeller bought all the land his pipeline was on? Or Vanderbuilt the land for the train tracks?

[Change has come]

7. Beautiful place.

I had no idea it was built by the CCC's.

[ThoughtCriminal]

8. Geology Built That

Or at least, the foundation.

[formercia]

9. Built by American Hands with American Cement, using Taxpayer Dollars n/t

[Panasonic]

10. Probably all of 36 of his staff members and maybe 25 media people, and the rest is an additonal 50

people to show up for R&R.

That's to be expected.

Less than 200.

[intheflow]

15. Part of me wants to go just to see if I can find evidence of groups

bussed in from out of state. But I don't actually want to be anywhere near that creepshow desecrating such a beautiful place.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

16. In all fairness to Mitt, he's going there to promise to sell the mining rights to those red rocks. n

[kaiden]

17. His supporters won't be able to climb the stairs! EMT should be on hand.

[Panasonic]

18. Yes!

At a cost of one thousand dollars a minute.