Elitch's Gardens, 1900

Happy Fourth of July!
Time to dust off the blog. I'm thrashing through the early section of book#4 in the series, but find myself distracted from researching neurasthenia and nervous exhaustion by, of all things, Elitch's Gardens in Denver "as it was" around 1900.
Too early for the Silver Rush series, alas.... But, according to family legend, this is where the real Inez Stannert (my paternal grandmother) first met William W. Parker (my paternal grandfather). What was the Gardens like back then, I wondered.
Well, I found some wonderful digital images at the Denver Public Library's Western History and Genealogy Department. Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce them here (copyright issues and all), but the links are below:

• http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?00071059+MCC-1059 Entrance to Elitch's Gardens, 1909 or so
• http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?00071235+MCC-1235 Shady Lane in the Gardens
• http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?00071233+MCC-1233 Vine-covered arbor in the Gardens, 1900-ish
• http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?00071234+MCC-1234 Miniature train in the Gardens
• http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?00071226+MCC-1226 Entrance to the Gardens' theatre, 1900 (check out the dresses! and all the straw summer "boater" hats!)

Enjoy!