Colfax Avenue

Colfax Avenue has a colorful and vibrant history that must be preserved. This site is a gift to the people of Colorado and the World for historical archival purposes. All content can be found through the links in the right hand column or using the search feature in the top left. If you use any content from this site, please credit ColfaxAvenue.org.

 

Please visit our Colfax Avenue exhibit currently on display at History Colorado entitled Forty Years on the 'Fax.

 

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Colfax Poetry: Sailing

Sailing

great white whales

on the urban dawn

wheel along the grey vacant

shoals of east Colfax,

yawning from curb to bus-stop curb,

spouting sprays of rude airbrake hisses,

for thirty-five cents exact change.

sailors deep

in lumbering, long-bellied

wombs of steel

sway to the song

of lunchbox yoga,

contemplating hints of a porthole sunrise,

breathing in dreams of sweet diesel fumes

until

    one by one

deliverance shall cast them

on the far distant shores

of another working day.

By STEVEN R. GROUT

(Reprinted with permission)

Adlai Stevenson, 1952

Adlai Ewing Stevenson II was an American politician and diplomat who was the United States ambassador to the United Nations from 1961 until his death in 1965. He served as the 31st governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953 and was the Democratic Party nominee for president of the United States in 1952 and 1956, losing both elections to Dwight D. Eisenhower. Here he is, being driven down Colfax Avenue in 1952 on the campaign trail.

 

Fax Fine Art

Painting by Kim English

 

Before the Flare

 

Whiskey Bill's

Whiskey Bill's was an old-school roadhouse once located at 7290 W. Colfax Avenue in Lakewood, CO.

Steak 'N Stein

Steak 'N Stein used to be at 12382 E. Colfax Avenue at Peoria Street. "Finest Steak House in Aurora."