A business card, passed in the balcony of the Tabor Grand.
Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.
WILL the lady who sat in the first balcony of the Tabor Grand last Saturday night and received business card from gentleman please reply to this and give address? Address X-97, News.
| Newspaper | Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colorado |
|---|---|
| Date | January 10, 1895, page 7 |
| Written by | A man, unsigned |
| Addressed to | The woman who took his card |
| Where | Replies to X-97, the News |
The Tabor Grand Opera House, at Sixteenth and Curtis streets, opened in 1881, built by Horace Tabor, who made his fortune in Leadville silver; by the time this ad ran, he had lost it in the silver crash of 1893. January 10, 1895, was a Thursday, so last Saturday was January 5, and the ad ran again the next day. She already had his card; what he wanted was her address. The building was torn down in 1964. Eight years later in San Francisco, a woman in a theater balcony lent her opera glasses to a stranger and then advertised for him. For where people in Denver post missed connections now, see our guide to personal ads in Denver.
Public domain in the United States: published before 1931.
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