A Behind-the-Scenes Peek at Your Red Rocks Seat
Here’s a good cocktail-party question for you – What are the seats at Red Rocks made of? Ipe. What??? Read on for the back-story. DeckTec spoke with Tad Bowman, venue director for Red Rocks as well as the Denver Coliseum, to get our valued customers the insider Red Rocks scoop. According to Bowman, the original Red Rocks benches were made from none other than top of the line old-growth clear heart Redwood. Those “hearty” benches were installed when the amphitheater was being built back in the late 1930s and lasted more than half a century before being creatively re-purposed, as you’ll soon see. “The Redwood benches endured the full brunt of rain, snow, and mile high sun. They also at one point had the seat numbers carved into the top. Because of changes in the seating configuration at Red Rocks there was an effort to cover up the tops of [...]