Denver, CO
Filled with stories, Denver’s Rockmount Ranch Wear owner Steve Weil shares inside scoop on famous customers
Nestled in Denver’s oldest historic district is a piece of Americana dating back decades. A new book shares the star-studded history of Rockmount Ranch Wear and its influence on fashion icons.
Current owner Steve Weil grew up inside Rockmount Ranch Wear. Long days in a warehouse and store aren’t unusual for a member of the Weil family, considering his grandfather kept at it until he was 107.
“I have been here pretty much since I was a little kid,” said Weil.
Customer watching at Rockmount Ranch Wear in LoDo is, at times, like a night at the Grammys. Music stars abound. Film stars, too. And regular customers looking for a piece of Americana.
Weil says Rockmount has weathered booms and busts over its eighty years of business.
“Everything was about responding to a changing market. That’s the cycle of business, right?” said Weil, who serves as the company’s President and chief creative officer.
His latest creative effort is a third book, “Rockmount Legends: Celebrities in Classic American Fashion.” The book is a compilation of memories of rock stars like David Bowie, Eric Clapton, and Bob Dylan, who have branded their own look with Rockmount clothing. There are stories and back-and-forth communications, as well as style notes and sightings of Rockmount on film sets and among stars.
Weil first noticed a shirt on Elvis Presley in the movie “Love Me Tender.”
“I looked, and I looked, and suddenly I remembered I’d seen a shirt exactly like that that my father had in the 50s,” he recalled.
Weil re-introduced the shirt, and it was a sellout.
The company was started soon after World War II by “Papa Jack,” who cut out a niche as unique as the sawtooth pockets he popularized. The company was the first to put snaps on shirts. His grandfather figured it would keep men on horseback from getting snagged. His shirts also featured yokes and wider cuffs, a departure from the norm at the time.
“My grandfather and his advertising, ‘Designed in the West by Westerners.’ Distinctive,” Steve Weil summarized.
Over the years, more and more stars looking for western wear eventually came into the store on Wazee Street in LoDo.
“People who write music or movies, I think they’re visionaries. And I think they appreciate that in their clothing, and I think we’ve, that’s what we do,” said Weil.
“Rockmount Legends” follows two other books, “Ask Papa Jack: Wisdom of the World’s Oldest CEO,” which is filled with stories and sayings from Papa Jack, who worked at the store until his passing, and “Western Shirts: A Classic American Fashion,” which puts in print the history of the development of western wear.
“I’m inspired by my grandfather. He could mesmerize you with his stories,” said Weil.
One passage features letters exchanged between Papa Jack and Ronald Reagan. Reagan was decrying the U.S.’s shift toward a service economy.
“And my grandfather writes him and says, ‘Servicing is when they take the mare to the stud,’” laughs Weil.
Weil’s father was also an innovator, taking the company nationwide. Weil says he could tell a story of his own.
Weil says, one Saturday at the warehouse, before there was a store, “There’s a guy peering in the window like this, and he sees my father pull up. Opened the door and he says, ‘Bloody hell, you’re never open when I’m here.’ And it’s a guy with an English accent. And my father’s a nice guy, he says, ‘come on in.’”
Later that day, there was a family get-together, and Steve’s father told him the story.
Weil recalled, “My father says, ‘An English rock star came in and I took care of him,’ and I’m thinking, ‘Yeah, right. Who was it?’”
It took his father a few moments to remember, then he spat out, “David Bowie,” mispronouncing the name. Steve was still skeptical until Monday.
“And then the phone rings, and it’s David Bowie’s secretary. He wants a duplicate of the same order sent to Madison Square Garden overnight,” he laughed.
Weil says they try to respect the stars’ space, adding that there are the friendly ones and the more remote ones.
“Robert Plant was really fun,” explained Weil.
When he arrived in the store, Steve says he received a call from one of the workers. He could hear Led Zeppelin’s Plant in the background, crowing about what he’d found.
“I walk in and here’s this guy like, just beaming. He’s having fun,” Weil shared.
The staff ended up getting invited to three nights of shows by Plant and his band at the Fillmore, and Steve went out to breakfast with Plant.
Eric Clapton’s look seems well-branded by Rockmount. Weil says Clapton has been a regular customer over the years. He sent a picture of himself in a Rockmount shirt at one point.
“Can I use that you know in some of our material?” he recalled asking Clapton. “He says, ‘Yeah, what’s in it for me? I said how about a ten percent discount?”
One time, Clapton emailed that he needed shirts for a Cream reunion in London in two days.
“I said, ‘Well, it takes a week from Denver. But I know where you can have a shirt on Thursday, and that’s if I hand deliver one,” he explained.
And so he did. Weil and a friend, capable of making last-minute travel decisions, flew over, but then doubt set in.
“What if this is bogus?” Weil thought.
He had Clapton’s phone number but was too worried about the cost of calling from his cell phone, so he sought out a British phone booth and rang him. Turned out, it was legitimate, and they made the delivery at the Royal Albert Hall. They went to dinner with Clapton as well.
The book is another way to share the memories that go with the images and the stories about people who have found an image along with the clothing.
Weil says sales have changed over the years, with the web now a big component. But personal engagement is still a big part of the Rockmount experience.
“It’s kind of a rare art. And I don’t know, I hope with the internet we don’t lose that kind of stuff,” said Weil.
Ever wonder what’s behind your neighbor’s front door? Consider this your all-access pass. Furniture Row’s Real Spaces series is throwing open the doors to some of Denver’s most stylish residents – the kind of people who turn a basement apartment into a maximalist playground, layer a Craftsman with heirlooms and velvet, and refuse to live with beige or millennial gray. Here are five Denver-area homes you’ll want to tour twice.
Haley’s Modern-Vintage Craftsman | Platte Park
Haley calls her 1912 Craftsman “a sanctuary that feels both fresh and rooted in history,” and it shows. Original woodwork and thick exposed beams meet warm velvet seating, rich wood tones, and a clever coffee bar where a pantry should be. The best seat in the house is a reading nook by the front window, perfect for cuddling the pup or, as Haley jokes, “creeping on the neighbors.”
Mackinley’s Maximalist Apartment | Denver
Proof that small spaces can carry big personality, Mackinley’s 1920s basement apartment is a love letter to color, texture, and clever layouts. Instead of committing to one big sectional, she layered lightweight, rearrangeable pieces so the living room can shift from movie night to game night to “everybody bring a chair.” Add in moody color, mixed textures, and a few clever storage saves in awkward nooks, and the whole place feels like a maximalist’s dream tucked underground.
See more of Denver’s Real Spaces.
Dakota’s Eclectic-Western Walkthrough | Denver
Dakota’s home is a vibrant mix of western soul and eclectic energy, anchored by a gallery wall of family photos and a leather sofa built to survive real life (and a pet or two). With no formal dining room, his kitchen table pulls triple duty as coffee station, workspace, and gathering spot. “I want there to be things that are true to me and speak to me,” he says, and every layered texture proves it.
Kate’s Cozy, Colorful Family Home | Denver Foothills
Kate took a compartmentalized 1970s house in the foothills and opened it up into a warm, color-drenched family hub. A mossy green island, a matte black fireplace, and pops of striking blue replaced the all-gray palette her home came with. “Gray had its moment,” Kate says, “but it was just so devoid of personality.” Her upstairs deck, complete with a canopied daybed, is the sunset spot of dreams.
Whitney’s Organic Modern Boho | Denver Suburbs
Whitney calls her style “modern natural, a little bit of cottage, a little bit of boho.” Inside her 1,400-square-foot suburban home, soaring ceilings frame an airy, light-filled living room layered in natural wood and soft texture, while a whimsical canopy bed turns her son’s room into a pure imagination space.
Five homes, five very Denver points of view. Tour them all at Real Spaces.
Denver, CO
After venue drama, Melat Kiros makes her case for a ‘new generation of leaders’ in Congress | Rocky Mountain PBS
Piker didn’t show up to the event. The rally was originally scheduled to take place at ReelWorks, an event space in Five Points. But last week, Kiros announced the rally had moved to the Ogden Theater on Colfax. Then, on Sunday, after Piker had already arrived in Denver, Kiros posted an Instagram video confirming the rally would instead take place at the Capitol.
In the video, Kiros accused DeGette of using her “donor class” to “silence” the event. On Hasan Piker’s Twitch stream Sunday, Denver-based political strategist and Kiros campaign adviser Deep Singh Badhesha told Piker that the venue cancellations were the result of venue owners receiving pushback from “corporations,” including threats of lawsuits.
“There was something happening with venue owners, that they were talking to each other” Singh Badhesha said.
Rocky Mountain PBS reached out to DeGette’s campaign for comment, but did not hear back before deadline. In a text to Denverite, DeGette campaign spokesperson James Owens said the claim that the congresswoman pressured venues to block Piker and Kiros’ rally was “ridiculous.”
“If Melat Kiros wants to campaign with someone who said America deserved 9/11 we’d do nothing to stop her,” Owens said in the text, according to Denverite.
Piker did say that “America deserved 9/11” during a 2019 livestream, though he later apologized for the remark. Piker’s critics — not limited to one side of the congressional aisle, but almost always to Piker’s ideological right — often invoke his purposefully inflammatory comments when campaigning against candidates Piker has endorsed.
Earlier this year, Piker said on the Pod Save America podcast that he would vote for Hamas over Israel because he is a “lesser evil voter.” It’s a comment he has doubled down on.
“This is not a statement they would ever hear in polite society, and that’s kind of the purpose of it,” Piker said in an interview this month with Vox’. “It is intentionally provocative, but I don’t think it’s inappropriate.”
Ballots for the June 30 primary are already in the mail across Colorado. Kiros’ rally at the Capitol is part of a final sprint in her race to unseat DeGette. Speakers at the rally reminded the audience multiple times that the election was just over two weeks away.
“We have 16 days to show this entire city that we are not waiting for permission, we’re not asking for our turn, we are taking back power and we are delivering on a better world for everybody,” Kiros said.
Piker has pushed back on the notion that he is a “kingmaker” for left-wing candidates, but the streamer’s association — if not physical presence — with the Denver rally nevertheless brings more attention to the Kiros campaign at a time when Democratic voters, from New York City, to Maine, to California, are weighing whether to ride with establishment-backed incumbents or to give progressive challengers a chance at flipping control of Congress.
Denver, CO
Kalshi World Cup Promo Code DENVER: Trade $10, Get $10 Bonus for Sunday Night Matches – Denver Stiffs
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Kalshi World Cup Promo Code DENVER Delivers $10 Sign-Up Bonus
| Kalshi Promo Code | DENVER |
|---|---|
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| Terms and Conditions | 18+ and Present in the US |
| Bonus Last Verified On | June 14, 2026 |
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Home Team
Away Team
Home Win %
Draw %
Away Win %
Germany
Curacao
94
4
3
Netherlands
Japan
48
28
27
Ivory Coast
Ecuador
29
34
39
Sweden
Tunisia
52
28
22
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