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Today, a great set from a, pardon the pun, MAJOR, helper, lover, and commenter extraordinaire…..
Today, pictures from valued commenter Major Major Major Major.
My husband and I recently went to Denver for a high school reunion and to visit my family. I go back a couple times a year, and this time I decided to take some pictures. It was a series of beautiful summer days, and for whatever reason, it finally felt to me like Denver was growning into its real potential as a modern city. Some of the locals don’t like this viewpoint, but here’s not really the time or place to debate urbanism, is it?
My parents’ backyard
Taken on 2017-08-05
This is the view from my parents’ backyard in Stapleton. It’s a neat little neighborhood, built on and partly from the crumbled remains of the old airport. They filmed Die Hard 2 in that airport, while we lived downtown. Apparently some of the actors stayed in our building, but I was too young to remember.
Bear
Taken on 2017-08-05
This is my mom’s dog, Bear. He’s a rescue, maybe eight or ten years old. They got his genes done and he’s chow-beagle-something-something.
University of Denver
Taken on 2017-08-05
My high school was on DU campus, so I would walk around this area every day. Hasn’t changed a bit.
Stanley
Taken on 2017-08-05
Stanley is an old factory in Stapleton that they turned into a food hall. The inside is all exposed-everything and unrefinished floors, pretty cool.
Union Station
Taken on 2017-08-05
They finally refurbished the old train station downtown at some point. This was my first trek back.
LoDo and the South Platte
Taken on 2017-08-05
A lot of this wasn’t here when I was growing up.
Art museum complex
Taken on 2017-08-05
We spent an afternoon at the art museum. The one on the left is the ‘new’ (15 years?) annex, designed by Daniel Libeskind. They had some issues with hanging the art when they realized that the walls weren’t vertical.
Thank you so much Major Major Major Major, thanks for a little glimpse into your world.
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SiubhanDuinne
Nice photos, M4, and Bear is a lovely dog.
Baud
Cool.
Wag
Excellent photos of our mutual hometown! When I was growing up the area around Union Station was a total skid row. The transformation of lower downtown (LoDo) since the early 90s has been incredible. I moved back to Denver 12 years ago after living in Mpls and then the mountains for 16 years, and love living in the city. I don’t think I could live in the suburbs, though, given the traffic situation. I like my current half mile cruiser bike commute too much to give it up.
?BillinGlendaleCA
I remember flying into Stapleton and then the first time I flew into DIA and took a cab into downtown Denver and past Stapleton all shuttered.
raven
Is the Tattered Page still there?
OzarkHillbilly
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I remember somebody “trying” to mug me at 5 am somewhere in the neighborhood of the bus station.
raven
Cause the police in Denver,
Lord, don’t want no long hairs around.
And that’s the reason why
They try to tear Canned Heat’s reputation down.
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
If you mean the Tattered Cover bookstore, yes it is (unless something’s happened to it n the last two or three weeks). Came up in recent conversation with my sister, who lives in Denver.
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: Yea, that’s what I meant. thx
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
It’s a wonderful bookstore.
As is Powell’s in Portland. And Malaprop’s in Asheville.
Our family bookstore in Oak Park wasn’t nearly as big as any of these, but had the same kind of atmosphere.
Mel
Great pictures. How did the refurbished inside areas of Union Station look?
Bear is one cute doggie!
Mel
@SiubhanDuinne: I dearly love Powell’s.
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: We have two indies over here, both Avid Books. Oxford used to be great in the ATL too!
Quinerly
Really love the sweet pictures today. Thanks!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@OzarkHillbilly: It wasn’t me.
Quinerly
@raven:
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Mustang Bobby
I lived in the Denver area from 1982 to 1990 (Boulder / Longmont to be exact) and spent a lot of time in Denver, including a year teaching at Regis. It’s nice to see they’ve turned the old airport site into a nice neighborhood. Oh, and Union Station was the first place I came to in Denver… I went to camp in Estes Park in 1964 and arrived by train on the Denver Zephyr.
ETA: There was a branch of Tattered Cover at the new airport when I passed through in 2015.
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
Oxford was wonderful — the original on Peachtree Road. I still miss it.
raven
@Mustang Bobby: There was a pipeline from Champaign-Urbana to Boulder in the 70’s. Fogleberg went to Caribou Ranch and people followed. I had good friends living in Ruby Gulch.
Mustang Bobby
@raven: I have the sheet music for “Nether Lands” on my piano. Can’t get through it without tears. Good times.
raven
@Mustang Bobby: He used to play little coffee houses in C-U for are. Dude was an incredible musician (as you know) and a really nice guy. I was always partial to Sutter’s Mill.
Some would fail and some would prosper
Some would die and some would kill
Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance
And some would curse John Sutter’s Mill.
Some men’s thirsts are never filled.
OzarkHillbilly
@?BillinGlendaleCA: No, you are a whole lot smarter than this idiot was.
debbie
I love the architecture of train stations.
Mustang Bobby
@raven: I love all of his work.
Mel
@debbie: Me, too. Union Station in Worcester, MA, and Cincinnati Union Terminal are both breathtaking.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Cool old train station. I love those.
Starfish
@raven: The Tattered Cover bookstore is still downtown.
Yoda Dog
Cool pics!
MomSense
I love train stations and pups! Bear looks a bit like my dog except saltier and a bit smaller. He’s a cutie.
StringOnAStick
@Starfish: The downtown Tattered Cover is the smaller location now, thanks to downtown rents spiking. The main store is on east Colfax, plus a tiny one at the airport and one inside Union Station. Union Station is a jumpin’ place now with upscale restaurants, as is true for a lot of downtown now.
I’ve been working part time at a dental office 6 blocks from Union Station for 9 years; the change in the last 5 has been remarkable. The reports say that 300,000 people moved to Denver in the last 5 years, a huge influx. Downtown is now full of new high rise housing and doesn’t roll up the sidewalks when workers head home, especially since so many now live downtown. The change has been remarkable.
satby
Denver’s changed just since I was there 10 years ago. I lived in a corporate apartment for about 6 weeks in the early oughts. Nice pictures.
Mnemosyne
Did I miss my Chicago pictures being posted, or are they still pending? I’ve been trying to remember to check, but I missed a few days.
J R in WV
We visited Denver for a week way back in 1988 or 89. It was a first long-distance traveling vacation for us, by air to Seattle, then sleeper train to Oregon pause in Portland drive the Pacific Coast, then sleeper train to San Francisco pause to eat great food and visit John Muir Wood, then more Amtrak to Glenwood Springs CO to hike in the rockies and enjoy the free hot water springs, then over the front range to I guess Union Station in Denver for a week.
Loved it.
I flew in and out of Denver once but didn’t spend time in town, headed right into the mountains to collect minerals. We’ve visited Pueblo a couple of time to see old friends, will spend 4 or 5 days in Denver next month on our way to Pueblo. Loved the Natural History museum … when we were there they had a Gary Larson’s Farside art exhibit mixed right in with the science exhibits, which meant instead of the museum hush people were either giggling or guffawing behind you all the time. Giant Cows on styrofoam backing leering down at you, etc.