End of the tour...

Cross North Front Street and walk through the pedestrian underpass. Exit the underpass to your right. A bandstand was located here in the 1920’s. Cross the street to the grass by the bank.

From 1911 to 1970, the three-story Rock Springs National Bank (“the largest bank in Southwest Wyoming”) was on this corner. The new bank is at the former location of the Rialto Theater. Built in 1920, the Rialto was advertised as a complete “amusement palace” featuring a ten-piece orchestra which provided mood music for the silent films and vaudeville shows coming through town.

One amateur night, Richard “Pinkie” Daniels Jr. sat in the audience mimicking the performers. He was spotted by a Hollywood photographer and signed by Hal Roach to star in 49 of the original “Our Gang” comedies.

Continue to walk south along C Street. The World War I statue you saw in Bunning Park was originally located at the intersection of Broadway and B Street.

You are now back at the Rock Springs Historic Museum.

You've walking through a lot of history but there is still so much more. Ask the museum staff for the self-guided cemetary tour or our other historic sites including Boar's Tusk (a volcanic plug), Native American Petroglyphs, the Overland Stage Station market, Reliance Tipple, Veteran's Park and more.