Globeville Story
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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Mary Lou Egan is a professional graphic designer and watercolor artist who also enjoys history and preservation.
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