Denver history

Brothers Clyde and Checkers Smaldone used their north Denver family restaurant, Gaetano’s, as the headquarters from which they built a mob empire. The Smaldone underworld enterprise died out, but Gaetano’s remains.

Before Coors Field there was Mile High Stadium, but there were a number of famous places to play baseball before that.

Colorado has long been a testing ground for new ideas in recreation and entertainment. Today, we see the much-hyped and developing project of Meow Wolf, but we’ve also seen examples in the original Elitch Gardens, Santa’s Workshop, Colorado's ski industry and the Cinerama at the Cooper Movie Theater, to name a few. The early 1960s dawned with a new experiment in amusements in Denver, launched in part by Walt Disney (yes, that Walt Disney) whose Celebrity Sports Center offered a fun time for…

Hauntings are not just something you pay to experience during Halloween. Check out these 10 creepy and real haunted places in Colorado!

These color photos that show the life of Denver, Colorado in the 1960s.

Denver Theaters | Denver Public Library History

Saint Anthony's Hospital ~ Denver Colorado ~ 1905

Denver History Tours presents... the Denver History "Nugget"

We found yet another gem in our collection. The 1978-1979 fourth grade class at Dennison School in Lakewood published—with the help of teachers Ms. Judith H. Cozzens and Ms. Collette C. Rouse—a booklet entitled As Kids See Denver '79.