[Rarebooks] F/S 1894 Menus Denver Luxury Hotel Bicyclist's Convention

[Garry R Austin]

-- We offer for your consideration the following, net to all & postpaid 
@$100.00.

From
Austin's Antiquarian Books
PO Box 730
Wilmington, Vt. 05363
mail at austinsbooks.com
802 464-8438


In August, 1894, the L. A. W.; League Of American Wheelmen held a 
meeting in Denver Colorado at the Windsor Hotel, (see below). The L. A. 
W. was the parent organization that would become the League of American 
Bicyclists, (see below); We offer the following lot of three nicely 
printed menus from that meeting. Each menu is round, but folded in half 
by design.

(Menu) Windsor Hotel;  August, 14, 1894; Menu. Denver: Carson-Harper 
Company, Printers & Engravers, 1894.       Folding card stock measuring 
7" in diameter; There is a graphic of the Rocky Mountains in one panel 
and the printed information of the event in the other half;  Opening the 
menu one finds the menu is dated and shows lists of a myriad of dishes; 
Very good.

(Menu) Windsor Hotel;  August, 15, 1894; Menu. Denver: Carson-Harper 
Company, Printers & Engravers, 1894.      Folding card stock measuring 
7" in diameter; There is a graphic of the Rocky Mountains in one panel 
and the printed information of the event in the other half;  Opening the 
menu one finds the menu is dated and shows lists of a myriad of dishes; 
Very good.

(Menu) Windsor Hotel;  August, 16, 1894; Menu. Denver: Carson-Harper 
Company, Printers & Engravers, 1894.      Folding card stock measuring 
7" in diameter; There is a graphic of the Rocky Mountains in one panel 
and the printed information of the event in the other half;  Opening the 
menu one finds the menu is dated and shows lists of a myriad of dishes; 
Very good.

Denver's first true luxury hotel, the Windsor House, opened June 23, 
1880, with fanfare befitting a great lady. Touted by local newspapers as 
"the largest and most complete hotel between Chicago and San Francisco," 
the five-story beauty became Denver's symbol of the sometimes rocky 
transition from a dusty gold rush town to a commercial center and rail 
hub of the Rockies.

The League was founded as the League of American Wheelmen in 1880. 
Bicyclists, known then as "wheelmen," were challenged by rutted roads of 
gravel and dirt and faced antagonism from horsemen, wagon drivers, and 
pedestrians.


In an effort to improve riding conditions so they might better enjoy 
their newly discovered sport, more than 100,000 cyclists from across the 
United States joined the League to advocate for paved roads. The success 
of the League in its first advocacy efforts ultimately led to our 
national highway system.




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