Big Things Happening in 40W Arts District

Big things happening out on West Colfax in the 40W Arts District!! Check out their website for upcoming special events!!

Charles Phoenix on the 'Fax

U.S. 40: Cross Section of the United States

Colfax Avenue is a part of the original Highway 40, the first coast-to-coast highway in the U.S. In 1953, George R. Stewart published U.S. 40: Cross Section of the United States, a landmark book about everyday life along the highway. The book contains 114 photographs and 92 interpretive essays. Scholars and writers have cited this work as influential to the study of road as a form of place.

Stewart spent a lifetime wandering through the American landscape, wondering about its geography and history, and writing books about it. He loved to travel, by foot or road. In 1919, barely recovered from pneumonia, he hitchhiked west on the National Old Trails Road (later U. S. 40 and Route 66). He never forgot his experiences on this trip.

Stewart’s U.S. 40 is a fine example of his work. It uses the highway as a self-guiding interpretive trail to the geography of a “cross-section of the United States.” The book has already produced two outstanding “descendant” works: Tom and Geraldine Vale’s U.S. 40 Today, and German film director Hartmut Bitomsky’s film “U.S. 40 West.” The book (and its current apostle, Frank Brusca) also found its way into William Least Heat Moon’s Roads to Quoz.

And George R.Stewart’s U.S. 40 inspired Brusca to produce these excellent U.S.40/National Road web pages, in which he carried on and expanded Stewart’s work.

Chalk Art: Denver Beer Co. in a Can

Courtesy Eric Matelski

Video - Sky En Fuego by Charly the city mouse Fasano

New Businesses on West Colfax

New Businesses in the West Colfax Corridor:

• Enjoy a sweet treat at Susie's Sweets (1470 Carr St.).
• Remote Start Guys moved to the corridor and offers remote start systems and other customized features for your vehicle at 9680 W. Colfax. 
• Lakewood Dance Academy provides creative dance classes at 9635 W. Colfax Ave.
• The Abo Group relocated their sustainable architecture firm to the historic building at 8025 W. Colfax Ave.
• Colorado Frame Company will move across Colfax into a beautiful new building at 9780 W. Colfax this fall. 
• Tamarack Consulting LCC, a civil engineering group, recently leased space at 8840 W. Colfax.
  
• Conservation Construction moved into the 8101 W. Colfax renovated building next to The Abo Group. 
• Vial Fotheringham Lawyers moved into the Golden Hill office building located at 12600 W. Colfax.
  

ClusterFAX

It was supposed to be invisible when the sidewalk is dry. Clearly not the case. I guess this way Colfax pedestrians can experience the joy of ClusterFax rain or shine. Experience more on their Facebook page!