Pam and I and a gambling friend of ours recently got to stay at this old hotel filled with nice antiques, gas lighting fixtures, clawfoot tubs and antique plumbing for just thirty bucks for two rooms!! Our friend knows a lot of folks in Central City (an old mining town turned gambling town), and althought this hotel is closed to the public for now because of roof leaks, our friend knew the caretaker of the joint so we were in like flint for a great price. And to think, there were once 124.1's and .2's as well as two tone purple R. Good tolls in the air, a half a block away from the room!!! I found the bottom of an open pontilled bottle just a short walk away. By dating it to the 1859-1860's era, I figured it would had to have come all the way from the Missouri river in the back of a wagon as there weren't any railroads in Colorado until 1870. Only the second time I've found one up there in all the years THIS old.