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Photographs taken of the Boulder City Council chamber and members.

Photographs of the kiosk at Crossroads Shopping Mall and of High Mar Station at Moorhead Avenue and Table Mesa Drive; and the ground-breaking at High Mar.

Photographs of Christmas decorations, including the courthouse in lights: Twelfth Night activities, including the bonfire; and the annual Miss Merry Christmas and Santa Claus, 1960s.

Ted Tedesco, city manager of Boulder from 1967 to 1973, looks back with pleasure, humor, insight, and some nostalgia, on his tenure here. He begins by describing his background and early career as a jazz musician, followed by his decision to go to college and change careers. He describes himself as an "activist" city manager and details the role he played in managing issues such as the first approval for an open space tax, the defeat of prohibition laws, and the anti-Vietnam War riots in the late 1960s. He reflects on why he left Boulder and compares working as city manager in Boulder with his experience in San Jose.

Jim Bowers, former planning director (1966-1967) and city council person (1967-1971) speaks about his time in both of these positiions. This period was marked by riots stemming from opposition to the Vietnam War and changes in the social and political attitudes of many young people, which Bowers recalls. On the other hand, Bowers also recalls his time on city council as having been a relaitvely peaceful and congenial time amongst the council members themselves as well as with the general citizenry and other entitites such as Boulder County, the Federal government and the Boulder Valley School District. One exception he speaks of at length was an episode in which threats were made to the lives of council members over consideration of the removal of the lighted cross and star on Flagstaff Mountain. He also tells about serving on the RTD board of directors for twelve years beginning with the creation of RTD in 1969.

Photographs of Boulder City Council members and a City Council meeting.