Rock Springs Police are investigating a stabbing that took place early Saturday morning at the Bareback Saloon, a strip club in downtown Rock Springs.

That's according to a post on the agency's Facebook page:

On the morning of May 1, 2021, at approximately 1:50 a.m., the Rock Springs Police Department responded to a stabbing incident that occurred at the Bareback Saloon, 729 Pilot Butte Avenue. The victim is a 39-year-old male that suffered a puncture wound to his left side. The suspect has been identified.
The investigation is ongoing at this time. If you have any information or witnessed the incident, please contact the Rock Springs Police Department Detective Division at (307)352-1588.
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Police at last report had not released the name of either the suspect of the victim.

CLASSIC CHEYENNE: The Cole Shopping Center

In December of 2020, Blue Federal Credit Union completed its new headquarters at the corner of Converse and Pershing in Cheyenne. Well, it’s not so much a ‘corner’ as it is the smooth edge of a roundabout, but anyway. Before Blue FCU built its new campus, the site was at one time a premier shopping destination for Cheyenne. From the 1950s through 2016 it was Cheyenne's Cole Shopping Center.

Local businessman Frank Cole bought the land that would become a Cheyenne gathering place in the 1950s when the corner of Converse and Pershing was the edge of town. Starting in 1952, three different Safeway grocery stores called the Cole home over its half-century of existence.  A plethora of other stores served the neighborhood too. From the movie theater to Blockbuster; there was the Cole Department Store, the fabric store, the East Branch of the Carnegie Library, and so much more.

As Cheyenne grew and changed, the Shopping Center fell into decline. Stores closed and new ones didn't take their places. The anchor of the area, Safeway, closed for good in 2016 with much of the rest following. In 2018 the buildings were demolished and the new construction began. 

The Cole was so integral to the neighborhood that when we asked on social media for folks’ memories we were flooded with hundreds of responses. 

Check out many of those memories below, along with several pictures of the Cole Shopping Center, mostly from near the end in the twenty-teens.


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