Cookie Sheet
This article originally appeared in The Last Word in the Winter 2023 issue of Art with Altitude.
Cookie Lockhart is a local legend in Steamboat Springs. When you see a sharply dressed woman in a cowboy hat with belt and glasses bedecked in rhinestones, you’ll know you’ve found her. Cookie was the first woman inducted into the National Auctioneers
Association Hall of Fame and has been featured on the television shows American Pickers and To Tell the Truth. She has celebrated her 80th birthday more than once and earned the nickname, “the Queen of Steamboat.” She has a little sage advice for you.
Cookie Sheet
- Don’t lend money to your family. Give it.
- Never shake a hand while sitting down.
- Stop telling people more than they need to know.
- Never eat the last piece of something you didn’t buy.
- Don’t throw your friend under the bus to impress someone.
- Never insult the cooking when you are the guest.
- Don’t use the urinal next to an occupied one.
- Don’t take out your phone during a conversation.
- Never take credit for work you didn’t do.
- Listen, nod, and most of all, make eye contact.
- Don’t make fun of your friend in front of his kids.
- Never let emotions overpower you.
- Never beg for a relationship.
- Dress well no matter what the occasion.
- Never kick a man when he is already down.
Elevate the Arts: Take some of Cookie’s advice and put it to work in your day-to-day, then find her 1966 episode of To Tell the Truth to hear the leading lady of auctioneering. To find it, search for “Cookie Lockhart To Tell the Truth” on YouTube
