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Mile High Market and Saturdays on Colfax Avenue - Denver, CO

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Mile High Market is just part of this story. Which is a continuation of the story I posted a couple of weeks ago, about Watson’s Memorials . An abandoned headstone engraver in east Denver, that closed abruptly and screwed its customers over. Today I'm going to cover another leg of that day's travels. East on Colfax Avenue, from the heart of downtown Denver, to the merge with I-70, in Aurora. It’s now been over six years since I moved out of Colorado. So this is another of my exercises in alleviating that never ending homesickness. Remembering what I saw when I was last there, then looking at what has changed since then.  Not all of these photos are from July 25, 2017. I may have not gotten a clear shot that day, or had a better one from other drives. But these are some of the landmarks I recognized each time I was on that road, and the stories I feel like telling about them.  In my last story, I mentioned driving north on Lincoln Street, to make a right turn on Colfax, at the C