Show Baldpate Keys Lure Lur T Tourists Collection Highlights Rocky Mountain Hostel ESTES PARK COL There COL-There There are nearly of those keys to Baldpate Baldpate Bald Bald- pate now If It youve you've ever been a tourist in Colorados Colorado's Rocky M Mountain o 0 u un n t a 1 I n national na na- park you surely have seen the at Baldpate Inn It has keys from all aU parts of the world large keys small keys keys of strange shapes and bizarre his his- tories tortes The inn is a modest log building just off oft the South St. St Canyon road about 10 miles from Estes Park village and an easy two hour drive from Denver The west wing of the inn is pretty well given over to the key tion Keys hang from the round lOll log rafters ratters and cover the pine walls Visitors are encouraged to add keys to the collection tagged with their names and the date Gordon Mace Baldpates Baldpate's tor who is getting a bit thin on top himself talks about the keys with withas as mu mush much h sparkle in his friendly blue blueeye blueeye blueeye eye as he must have shown the day he and his brothers started the col col- lection Yes close to keys now he sale said sal but they dont don't come In III ti as a. fast fut as a. they used to to People who know about the collection wait walt un tin til they get something really special before they send It along Mace has devoted one whole section sec sec- tion of ot walls to keys sent to 10 him twin from cities oa the war fronts by Americans in the armed services who once visited Baldpate There Is a key from the Imperial hotel at Tokyo in this batch and a tiny one reputed to open a drawer of or Hitler Hitler's desk A chaplain In lie New Zealand wrote Mace he was send send- ing him th the most Important key In New Zealand It was wa an opener for tor a C ration tin The pilot of ot a bomber based at T Texas wrote Mace he be would drop him a key by parachute the next time h he flew into Colorado Colondo On the Ule designated day he h. swooped low over Lake Estes down th the valley from Bald Baldpate t and let t fly |