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Rogue Bench

Posted on December 5, 2008 by admin

In the fall of 2007, in celebration of the opening of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and the new Libeskind Building at the Denver Art Museum, the entrepreneurial designers at Double Butter generously installed two of their roadrunner benches … Continue reading →

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rejection letters, 1933-1937

Posted on December 4, 2008 by admin

In the basement of our Highland neighborhood house at 29th and Wyandot Street some years ago we found a few mementos of someone we never knew. Her name was Mary E. Horlbeck, and she appears (as far as we can … Continue reading →

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Mercury Cafe, December 1982

Posted on December 3, 2008 by admin

For over 33 years, Marilyn Megenity and her crew at the Mercury Cafe have been providing Denver with healthy, organic, local food and a venue for an incredibly wide range of music and performance. There were legendary shows at the … Continue reading →

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Denver traffic, 1959

Posted on December 2, 2008 by admin

The Story of Denver traffic—100,000 cars in 1945 and 200,000-plus today In Denver in the early Twentieth Century water wagons to keep down the dust were an institution. In the 1930’s road oil was sprayed on many streets to keep … Continue reading →

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Because It Had To Be Done

Posted on December 1, 2008 by admin

Those who know Don call him a saint, but he just shrugs off such idle talk. For the year that ended this Veterans Day, Don could be found each Saturday morning at the foot of the memorial to a fallen … Continue reading →

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