Lon Chaney destinations?

[Sleepyhollowstudios]

Hi guys!

I'm heading out to Colorado in a few days, and since Lon Chaney was from Colorado Springs I was wondering if there were any destinations I should visit related to Chaney.

I know of the Lon Chaney Theater, but is there anything else in Colorado Springs dedicated to Chaney? A museum? Store that sells Chaney merchandise? Anything?

Thanks, guys!

-Andy

[Mike Scott]

Boy! It looks like the Chaney theater is about it! Let us know if you find (found) anything else. 

[Sleepyhollowstudios]

The Chaney Theatre was, indeed, it. The theatre manager told me very few people in Colorado Springs know that Lon Chaney is from there, and even fewer care. It was sad to hear. But at least we know and love him!

-Andy

[Mike Scott]

The theatre manager told me very few people in Colorado Springs know that Lon Chaney is from there, and even fewer care. It was sad to hear.

It's sad that people don't even know their own local history. Most younger people don't know anything that happened before they were born!

[ChristineBCW]

I don't blame folks for not being born with full-knowledge of the past.  For whatever reasons, Total History Awareness Pills aren't being fed to babies.

We have to examine how our own interests grew over time, and what particular, or singular, event started film fans to dig deeper, not just sit and wait for the Next Big Thing.

When I blame someone or an entity, it's always Rightsholders who prefer to bury films rather than release them in any good format possible.  The Suzy Harts are easy to attack and perhaps individual heirs will be more understanding that nothing grows unless seedings occur. 

But it's really the evil empires like the Conde Nazty's and Sony's who stockpile warehouses of shows, refusing to even catalog them.  And as many times as I'd clear my nose in their general direction, I bet there are other entities who are big enough to remain anonymous and thus escape a few well-blown blobs.  We really need a massive shift in public-domain laws so if rightsholders refuse to sell them, they lose control of public presentations.  And in a decade's time, not 50 or 100  years.

[Mike Scott]

I don't blame folks for not being born with full-knowledge of the past. 

Full knowledge? I'd take any knowledge! And it's not so much that they don't know, as it is they're not interested in knowing. When you see college students who don't know what two countries border the USA (China?), I worry about the future.

[LugosiFan25]

But it's really the evil empires like the Conde Nazty's and Sony's who stockpile warehouses of shows, refusing to even catalog them.  And as many times as I'd clear my nose in their general direction, I bet there are other entities who are big enough to remain anonymous and thus escape a few well-blown blobs.  We really need a massive shift in public-domain laws so if rightsholders refuse to sell them, they lose control of public presentations.  And in a decade's time, not 50 or 100  years.

Completely agree. It would be one thing if they were actually bothering to release this stuff and get it out there, but they don't even care.

[aura of foreboding]

We really need a massive shift in public-domain laws so if rightsholders refuse to sell them, they lose control of public presentations.  And in a decade's time, not 50 or 100  years.

I agree with this.  Use it or lose it. 

[Mike Scott]

I agree with this.  Use it or lose it.

That's what you have to do with trademarks.