Show Baid baldpate pate keys lure tourists tourist S collection highlights Rock Rocky Mountain hostel ESTES PARK COL coltherd there are nearly of those keys to bald pate now if youve ever been a tourist in C colorados Colora lo rados dog rocky M mountain 0 u n t a I 1 n national p park ark you surely have hava seen the at baldare Baid pate inn it has keys from all parts of the world large keys small keys keys of strange shapes and bizarre histories the inn Is a modest log building just off the south st vrain 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 predy well given over to the key collection keys hang from the round log rafters and cover the tha pine walls visitors are encouraged to add keys to the collection tagged with their names and the date gordon mace baldpates Bald pates pr tor who Is getting a bit thin on top himself talks about the keys with as much sparkle in his friend friendly y blue eye as he must have shown t the a day he and his brothers started the e collection yes close to keys now he said but they dont come in as fast as they used to people who know about the collection wait until they get something really special before they send it along mace has devoted one whole section of walls to keys sent to him from cities on the war fronts by americans in the armed services who once visited Baid baldpate pate there Is a key from the imperial hotel at tokyo in this batch and a tiny one reputed to open a drawer of hillers Hit lers desk A chaplain in new zealand wrote mace he was sending him the most important key in new zealand it was an opener for a C ration tin the pilot of a bomber based it at texas wrote mace he would drop him a key by parachute the next time he flew into colorado on I 1 alm hi designated day he swooped tow low over lake estes down the valley from baldrate Bald oate and let fly |