Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Death and burial in Globeville
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Zombies, coffins, haunted houses - death is entertainment during Halloween, but for Globeville's early settlers, it was a constant compa...
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Thursday, October 8, 2015
Preserving, canning, roasting in Globeville
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The Eastern Europeans and Russians who settled Globeville in the 1880s came from humble roots where everything was preserved and nothing wen...
Thursday, September 3, 2015
Denver's First Labor Day Celebration Held at Argo Park
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During the 1880s, Denver was booming. The arrival of the railroads attracted manufacturing, meat packing, food processing and small business...
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
The odor - packinghouses
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For many people a whiff of apple pie or fresh-baked bread can evoke memories of a visit to their grandma's house. For me, that sensory c...
Saturday, July 4, 2015
4th of July, 1920
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The Denver Catholic Register began, "The Yugo-Slavs * of Globeville celebrated the Fourth of July on Sunday by dedicating their beautif...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Father Joseph Albert Meznar
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"Dear family in Christ" the bulletin would begin. The following pages, sometimes as many as four two-sided sheets, would continue ...
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Globeville and the Platte River Flood of June 1965
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Like many frontier towns, both Denver and Globeville started near a river, the usually sleepy, muddy Platte. The Arapaho and Cheyenne res...
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