The Alamo Hotel and The Silver Fox
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View of Alamo Hotel building from across the street with cars in front. Parking meters are visible in foreground. Signs on building include "Alamo Hotel", "Randy Lee at Piano Bar" on marquee over entrance, and signs for "The Red Fox" "Cocktail Lounge Restaurant" "The Silver Fox" and "The Foxes Restaurant Lounge." - PPLD Special Collections [1]
History
According to Emilio Valasquez, in an Out Front article by Phil Nash, the Alamo Hotel would cater to gays in the 1950's in a bar called The Silver Fox. [2]
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Alamo Hotel (1965-06). PPLD Digital Collections, accessed 25/06/2026, https://digitalcollections.ppld.org/nodes/view/84431 ↩︎
Nash, Phil. “Last in a Four-Part Series on Colorado Gay Communities Colorado Springs Gays Consider Their Potential.” OUT FRONT, March 15, 1985. Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=OTF19850315-01.2.3. ↩︎