Thursday, April 14, 2016

Schachet Mercantile Company

Schachet Mercantile Company on West Colfax Avenue in Denver, Colorado. The building was originally built as a saloon in 1896, rented by Eli Schachet and his sons in 1918 and served as the headquarters for their meat and fish store until it closed in 1981. ‪#‎WestColfax‬

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Peerless Smelting Works, 1908

Peerless Smelting Works at 2022 West Colfax Avenue in Denver, Colorado. Adolph Kiesler, standing in the center, started the Peerless Alloy Company in Denver in 1908. ‪#‎WestColfax‬

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

American Songwiter Magazine

"Denver's Colfax Avenue is one of America’s great urban streets, as important to understanding the Modern West as the Monument Valley of John Ford’s westerns is to the Old West." - Steven Rosen, American Songwriter Magazine

Monday, April 11, 2016

Pencol Drug Store, 1951

Azriel Stein stands behind the counter at his drugstore, Pencol Drug, which was located at Pennsylvania Street and Colfax Avenue in Denver, Colorado. (Photo taken by Irene Miller Stein in 1951)