Using Lomography’s “Purple” 35mm film, this set focuses on the Bessemer neighborhood of Pueblo Colorado. Along side the Arkansas River, Bessemer was settled in the Colorado Gold Rush of 1859, and incorporated into its own city in 1886. It was the hub of Colorado Fuel & Iron’s Steel operation until the 1960s when the industry began to collapse in the U.S. as a whole…
Bessemer joined the city of Pueblo in 1894, and is a part of a deeper history of the region - which includes being the border of U.S. and Mexico along the Arkansas River in 1842, as well as Spanish explorations in the 1500s…
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
Former CF&I Steel Mill and corporate office…
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
1902 Banquet Hall…
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
Johnny's Boiler Shop & Metal Works
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
Arkansas River
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
Arkansas River (underneath the Interstate 25 bridge)
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
Arkansas River looking west…
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
Arkansas River (underneath Interstate 25 bridge) looking east…
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
Large hornets nests underneath Interstate 25 bridge above the Arkansas River…
Arkansas River looking south along Interstate 25…
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
Auntie Bev’s Restaurant - sentimental shot, in-which our close family Aunt, from Pueblo Colorado, is known as Aunty Bev, and here is a classic establishment in Pueblo coincidentally with her name and likeness!
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
Star Burger
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
Auntie Bev’s aka Aunty Bevs…
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
Joker’s Burger & Beer
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Joker’s Burger & Beer
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
A “dutch Lunch…”
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
Authentic Italian Market. Pueblo was home to Colorado’s (small but influential) Italian Mafia from the East Coast & Mid-West…
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
Interstate 25 and the former CF&I Steel Mill in the background…
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler
One of several independent steel mills still in operation in Pueblo…
Film Photograph by Adam Chrysler