BOULDER CO PEDESTRIAN MALL ON A SUNDAY

 

On Sept. 1 we drove from the Westminster Elks Lodge to Boulder to visit friends George and Mardi Oetzel. They took us to the pedestrian mall in the old downtown area about 4 blocks long. It was a very pleasant day, and many were out strolling the mall, including sidewalk performers. The stores generally were specialty shops, boutiques, and restaurants. There were no vacancies in the storefronts.

The mall was nicely landscaped. The traffic on cross streets was minimal.

 

This large sandy play area was equipped with statues of animals on which children were playing. Two are on the snail.

The county courthouse, nicely landscaped, fronted on the mall.

This sidewalk performer played a tune on his drums.

And this performer was entertaining with his large bubbles soon burst by the children.

He is not a Wallenda, but he successfully walked his tight rope about 15 feet with no balancing rod.

The mall also was decorated with a few bronze statues.   

We checked out the Boulder Dushanabe Tea House. It was built in Boulder’s sister city, Dushanabe Tajikistan, disassembled, shipped to Boulder in creates and reassembled. We elected to have our evening meal in a nearby Cheesecake Factory restaurant. Jo and Mardi are seated on the bench.

 

 

This juggler was juggling 3 burning batons when we stopped to watch him, and his next act was briefly to juggle 5 of them in these two shots.