Denver - Cosmopolitan Hotel Implosion

The Cosmopolitan Hotel stood at the end of the block at 18th Street between Broadway and Lincoln in Downtown Denver from 1926 until this implosion in 1984.

The implosion of the hotel was used in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock so there are some excellent camera angles.

Unfortunatly, this portion of Downtown Denver remains a parking lot to this day. More information about this hotel and the block it sits on is available here:
http://www.denverinfill.com/blog/2007/07/before-they-were-parking-lots-block-...

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• downtown
• Denver
• Cosmopolitan
• Metropole
• building
• implosion
• demolition
• collapse

[aaliyahfan4eva1979]

What Year Was This??

[covol]

The implosion was in May of 1984.

[29twisted]

@TurningSeasonWithin LMFAO i know what you mean my dad worked in chicago setting beams at the sears tower he mentions it EVERY time they ask him what he works on

[Bignadim]

@stealth22a try telling that to the mayor when they demolish decent looking buildings and replace then with shit! like in London

[NEXPAR]

Got rid of that building for a damn parking lot! Disgraceful!

[theminimumdog]

In 1975 I worked as a cook across the street at the Brown. I am told there used to be a secret tunnel under the street connecting the two hotels. They would run hookers back and forth to the clientele. Too bad it was not saved for restoration.

[TurningSeasonWithin]

My dad set the explosives, he wont shut up about it

[173540]

What a memory. I remember my dad taking us down to view this event. We were across the street to the east in the parking garage of what used to be the United Bank building. I don't think we were supposed to be in there as I remember evading security guards. HA!

[asalire]

Did you know Jimi Hendrix stayed here in September 1968 when he played a sold out concert at Red Rocks? He wrote a poem in the hotel called "Letter to a room full of mirrors"

[refbiz]

I got the stationery from the Hotel "1974" somewhere. It's old, so am I.

[whoisjongalt]

That is so depressing. It's still a parking lot. If it had survived a few more years it would have been restored like all of the other old hotels downtown that made it past the '80's.

[dlroworld]

Depressing. And what did it get replaced by? A parking lot. that's right, a big ugly cracked-with-weeds-growing-thr­ough parking lot. Nothings been built there yet since. 0:19 gives us a glimpse of what the area would've looked like had they of left it, and renovated it instead.