Both the fictional bright-pink dreamland and the moody wartime biopic have origins in Colorado.
It’s a mega-weekend at the movies, with the expected blockbusters ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ hitting theaters. And while moviegoers choose between the fictional bright pink dreamland and the moody wartime biopic, both films have their basis in history - and connections to Colorado.Uranium used in the Manhattan Project was mined in Colorado.Ruth Handler, who came up with the idea for the blonde-haired doll that would become an American icon, was born Ruth Mosko in Denver in 1916.
Gerber wrote the book ‘Barbie & Ruth’ all about the iconic toy’s creator. She described seeing her daughter play with paper dolls, and coming up with the idea of a grown woman toy for little girls. The doll was named Barbie after her daughter, Barbara. “Certainly there’s that great western Colorado influence,” she said. “Daring to do something different and special and individualistic.”Though lesser known and even less celebrated, Colorado has quite the nuclear past. That includes providing a good amount of radioactive material to Robert Oppenheimer’s Manhattan Project.
That includes places like Grand Junction, Gateway, and a small town called Uravan in Mesa County. That town, along the Mesa River, was originally started to mine Vanadium, which strengthened steel. But another element was also found in the area which became of greater importance to war efforts: uranium.
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