Englewood Historic Preservation Society Preserving Englewood Colorado History NEWSLETTER VOL.6 NO 11 JUNE 2018 Doug Cohn & Dave Paschal - Editors EHPS ~ 1000 Englewood Parkway ~ Englewood, Colorado 80110 Lindsey Runyan - Graphic Design Upcoming Events Special Thanks OUR BOARD OF EHPS LECTURE SERIES: Matt Crabtree DIRECTORS All lectures, unless otherwise noted Thank you for for an electrifying talk take place the last Monday of the about Nikola Tesla in Colorado. Matt Crabtree month at 2 locations. FIRST: 2:30 President pm at the Englewood Public Library. CJ Cullinan Paul Skizinski SECOND: 6:30 pm at the BOB, Brew Thank you for leading the field trip Vice President to Castle Rock. on Broadway, 3445 S. Broadway. Jeff Barker There will not be a history talk in May Leah Clocek Treasurer as we will be organizing the Memorial Thank you for showing us how to CJ Cullinan Day Celebration. Please join us! track down our roots and learn Secretary July 14th - Saturday the histories of our families. Ms. Doug Cohn Please join EHPS for our Annual Clocek is from Crossroads Historical Lecture Director Meeting, 4 PM at Twin Dragon, 3021 Research and will be repeating the Ida May Nicholl S. Broadway. $10 dinner special. 4-Part workshop in September at the We will review the past year, elect Outreach Director Englewood Public Library. officers and talk about plans for this Sharlene Barker upcoming year. NEW & RENEWING MEMBERS Event Director July 30th - Monday Dave Paschal Lindsey Runyan Finding history with a metal detector Ashlock Family Communications Director by Doug Cohn. Armstrong Family Pat Lamoe August 10th - Monday Board Member At Large Charles Hay School, watermelon DUES Are Due! welcome and ribbon cutting ceremony Ken Ohmstede from 4:00 - 6:00 PM. Board Member At Large Please RENEW your August 25th - Sunday membership in our society! The 2nd Englewood Speedway Reunion Car Show, from 11:00 AM - Englewood Historic You can use the form in this 5:00 PM at the Englewood Elks Club. newsletter or go to our website. Preservation Society September 8th - Saturday Mission Englewood Block Party, from 3:00 We thank you for your To Preserve and share PM - 9:00 PM. EHPS will be raising contribution. money and sharing our history. Englewood’s history. Contact CJ Cullinan to volunteer. ~ 1 ~ MARSHALL REED, ENGLEWOOD’S WESTERN HERO Compiled By Dave Paschal If you are fortunate enough to in pictures was interrupted while Lone Ranger, but at the last minute remember the 1940s through the he served with the US Navy in chose Clayton Moore. early 1950s, then you will remember the North Pacific around 1944- By the mid-to-late 1950s the B this point in time marked the “hey 1945. After receiving an honorable western popularity began fading. day” of B movie westerns. These discharge, Marsh returned to Marshall turned to television and were the days that if you were lucky Hollywood to resume his film the well-known role of “Inspector enough to get a quarter you could career. His first film was in 1943, Fred Asher” on the ‘50s police series spend a Saturday afternoon watching Bordertown Gun Fighters, starring The Lineup. During the 1950s and your favorite western heroes. Twenty- B western hero, Wild Bill Elliot. into the 1970’s Marshall played five cents would buy two cartoons, supporting TV roles on programs a Flash Gordon serial, and two full such as the Lone Ranger, Lassie, Kit length western movies starring such Carson, Dragnet, and Perry Mason. favorites as Roy Rogers, Johnny Mack Brown, or Hopalong Cassidy. Marshall Reed was handsome, tall, In all those western movies, chances and looked good in the saddle. He were quite good that Marshall Reed, appeared in 175 films of which 130 an Englewood son, was among the are westerns and 17 are serials. His cast, usually as the “bad guy”. western film credits at Republic number over 50 films. He was active Marshall was born in Englewood, in the Masquers Club, a theatrical Colorado on May 28, 1917. His organization in Hollywood. A acting career started early when he member of the board of directors, appeared in children’s theatre at the Marsh was also chairman of the age of 10. “Marsh” (a nickname that Theatre Committee during the followed him through most of his ‘60s. In this position, he designed life) managed two theatre groups and directed two films, Twelve during high school. After high Angry Men and The Royal Family. school he supported himself with During his tenure as chairman odd jobs such as a meter reader, mail he designed sets and directed the clerk, bookkeeper, and horse trainer lighting for several other Masquers while working to become an actor. productions. Among many of his Marshall’s professional career began endeavors Marshall was the head of with the Elitch Gardens Summer Marshall Reed Enterprises, a film Stock Theatre in Denver where he equipment rental company. His last built scenery, helped with making Photos from Wikipedia, imdb.com and Alchetron. film was in 1972. Married five times, costumes, and appeared in a number Marshall’s last wife Carlyn was his of plays staged at Elitch’s theatre. Marshall, an excellent athlete and major support during his difficult Marshall began to write, produce, stuntman, handled much of his own battle with a brain tumor. He died and act in a number of theatre groups fight and riding sequences. Through at home on April 15, 1980 at the in Denver. Around 1938-1939 Reed’s most of his career he appeared in age of 62 and was buried at Harbor repertory group started touring dozens of movies and cliffhanger Lawn Memorial Park in Costa Mesa, throughout the US where he acted serials for Republic and Columbia California. in summer stock productions, from studios, in which he usually was cast New York to Los Angeles, and many as the bad guy or the “heavy”. In one of his last interviews, Marshall venues in between. Although type-cast, Reed would recalled, “I’ll never forget the time we occasionally appear in more were doing a Johnny Mack Brown In 1942 Marshall came to California sympathetic roles assisting the western, up at Walker cabin, near where he worked the night shift at hero demonstrating his wide range Newhall. I was one of the heavies. Lockheed while starting his career of acting skills. Republic Pictures The good guys were behind us and in motion pictures. His quest to be considered casting Marshall as the they were shooting at us and we were ~ 2 ~ CASTLE ROCK HISTORY TOUR REED continued shooting back at them. Now there were a couple of new boys on the job when we started the chase. [We] were about to go under a huge limb of a big oak tree when I heard ‘zing!’ It turned out it was the first time one of the new kids was involved in a picture and he brought his own gun and ammunition. He was shooting real bullets! The minute I heard the Photos by Paul Skizinski ‘zing’ I knew something was for real. Everybody scattered. Needless What a wonderful day and rehabilitated over the years as well to say, somebody could have been informative tour of Castle Rock on as learned of the Railroad history killed. They took the young man June 2nd. We met volunteer guide and rhyolite stone significant to the right off the picture, and he was Angie and the Museum’s trainee, area. We wrapped up our tour at never heard from in pictures again.” Rosie, in downtown Castle Rock the Castle Rock Museum in a 1875 at the old courthouse yard. From train depot beautifully restored A good friend and fellow B western there we walked about the town’s with information and artifacts villain Pierce Lyden remembered, historic buildings that had been spanning lifetimes. “Marshall was a great guy and moved to this area or have been deserved a break. We were happy when we heard ‘one of our own’, EHPS YEAR IN REVIEW! Marsh Reed, got the [the lead] in the Riding with Buffalo Bill [17 We have had a busy year. EHPS the General Iron Works Company, episode] serial. But Marsh, real or participated in the Englewood and the history of Tiny Town, etc. imagined, was always having woman Block Party in October and the EHPS sponsored two historic tours trouble. We were always consoling Englewood Holiday Parade in of Arapahoe Acres and organized him. His early death was a shock. December as well as an informitive field trips to The Broadmoor and Marsh always wanted to be a star. He genealogy workshop sponsored Castle Rock Museum. EHPS also always thought he would be.” by Englewood Public Library and received donations of many items attendance at the Mill Creek Valley from General Iron Works and the Historical Society Melodrama. City of Englewood generously Contact Us: Our monthly lecture series donated a space to house those HistoricEnglewood.org continued with talks that included items. Thanks to all of our members General Custer, a two part series and volunteers and dedicated [email protected] on Nikola Tesla, the big fire at Board Members who help make 303-242-3257 Alexander Industries, history of the these events and out participation Englewood Speedway, the 1918 flu, possible. Please like us on facebook! ~ 3 ~ IN A HISTORY MAKING ADVENTURE! We have a broad-based mission, including the restoration and preservation of historic buildings, accepting, cataloging and displaying donated artifacts, recording, transcribing and publishing the oral history of Englewood and its residents, providing interesting and educational lectures each month on historical subjects, and reaching out to our local schools to assist with instilling a love of history in the students.