Befitting its famously gritty namesake, The Colfax Museum has had a rough go of it lately. Founded in 2004 by Elvis impersonator Jonny Barber, the museum opened to the public in 2017 to ...

Jonny Barber, the founder of the Colfax Museum who's also known as the "Velvet Elvis," has reached the end of the line. It turned out that the final straw was not one, but two floods that hit the ...

“I have been to hell and back to reopen this restaurant. This is my dream and I almost lost it. It’s not just me. Every restaurant owner has been through the same thing, and we can&#821… ...

Colfax Avenue's Lowenstein Theater Complex will soon be home to Route 40 Cafe and Jonny Barber's Colfax Museum. The Goods is becoming Route 40 Cafe, complete with a Colfax Avenue memorabilia ...

You could say that Jonny Barber is a little obsessed with Colfax Avenue. "I needed a job and I needed something I was interested in," said Barber. "I've run ColfaxAvenue.com for 14 years." The ...

But soon, Jonny Barber will call it quits and close the Colfax Museum in Lakewood. In an interview with CBS4, Barber said it's too expensive to keep operating the museum.

The museum will also commemorate the 200 or so motels that once lined Colfax, places like Lloyds of Lakewood and Charlie Chan Village. The Bugs Bunny Motel, where actress Sue Lyon of “Lolita ...

COLFAX, Wis. (WEAU) - The Colfax Railroad Museum will be featured on the History Channel program, “American Pickers”, Wednesday, March 20, and the museum is holding a premier event.

On March 23, 2023, The History Museum opened a permanent exhibit dedicated to the one-time South Bend businessman, “Colfax: Speaker for Freedom,” to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Colfax ...

The gown worn by Ellen Wade Colfax on March 4, 1869, at her husband’s inauguration as vice president can also be seen in the exhibit. Given to The History Museum by the Colfax family in the ...

The Denver Diner sign will live on at the Colfax Avenue Museum.

COLFAX, La. – The shiny new black marble monument dedicated to the victims of the Colfax Massacre sits next to the railroad tracks on Eighth Street, not far from where the atrocity took place on ...