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Explore Boulder this summer by renting the city’s hip red cruiser B-Cycle bikes. In the morning, hit the Boulder Creek path, one of The Hill’s unique coffee shops and cafés or pedal to Chautauqua for close-up views of the Flatirons.

The university’s first library opened in September 1877 in Old Main. It had two books, but by the turn of the century the library, situated on the third floor, had more than 7,000 books.

Amid stories of radioactive waste leaking in fields, 70 FBI agents and  Environmental Protection Agency staff descended on the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons production plant 25 years ago.

The school spirit enthusiastically displayed in the Coors Events Center during basketball games is arguably the greatest in the Pac-12.

From the end of Prohibition in 1933 until 1967, Boulder only allowed 3.2 beer to be served within city limits.

During the past few years, CU-Boulder has built and renovated a number of buildings to enhance the overall university experience for students.

Fifty years ago, Billy Kidd (Econ’69) and Jimmie Heuga (PolSci’73) became the first American men to win Olympic medals in skiing.

Lee Rase has worked at Pixar since 2005 on animated films such as Wall-E, Up and Monsters University.

The last U.S. troops left Vietnam on March 29, 1973, in the wake of the cease-fire agreement engineered at the Paris Peace Accords. An estimated 58,000 Americans and 2 million Vietnamese died during the war. Sobering images like this one in the 1970 yearbook of the Khe Sanh airstrip fueled anti-war sentiment.

During the 1970s and early 1980s, some 150 artists reveled in the serenity of Caribou Ranch, a destination recording studio north of Nederland, Colo.