Micah Smith joined the station in December 2018 and is Denver7's Social Equity Reporter
Pueblo, Colo. – Inside the Coronado Motel, a Pueblo, Colorado 1940s-era building, sits a piece of 1983 Hollywood nostalgia, a National Lampoon’s Vacation poster.
“It was listed in the Green Book. And it is has a unique history as a place that allowed African Americans to stay,” Pueblo historian Corrine Koehler said. For decades, a local family owned and ran the motel but it was recently sold to Koncilja and his brother. “We're working with the Historical Society locally, and we're trying to take it back to the original Adobe color, what that would have been, but it's got really cool historical details,” Koncilja said.
“She was a collector of everything. It was absolutely wonderful. It was not just history about the orphanage, but it was also history about the African American experience,” Brown said.
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