Denver’s Molly Brown House was almost lost to bulldozers. Now, it’s celebrating 50 years as a museum
A new exhibit on its storied past and present preservation efforts offers visitors a chance to step back to the days of Molly Brown and the decades-long restoration. Author: Monica Castillo (Colorado Public Radio News) Published: 5:43 AM MDT May 5, 2021 Updated: 5:43 AM MDT May 5, 2021
DENVER The musical “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” holds an interesting spot in Colorado history. It’s something Molly Brown House Tour Guide Pam Mahonchak regularly tells visitors.
> Video above from August 2018: Checking out the Molly Brown House Museum s facelift.
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Pam Mahonchak has been a guide since 1971 at the Molly Brown House Museum in Denver. Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021.
The musical “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” holds an interesting spot in Colorado history. It’s something Molly Brown House Tour Guide Pam Mahonchak regularly tells visitors.
“Not all of the listeners will remember the original movie musical, ‘The Unsinkable Molly Brown,’ which debuted here in Denver in 1964 at the Aladdin Theater on East Colfax,” Mahonchak said. “I remember it it was my very first movie that I saw in a real movie theater, not a drive-in.”
That momentous occasion stayed with Mahonchak, but it wasn’t the full story of Margaret Tobin Brown. That story was about to get a new chapter in the wake of the popular Broadway musical-turned-movie.