Articles by Mary Lou Egan

By Mary Lou Egan The faces in the photos say it all. Baseball was a chance to be outside with the guys after a long week working inside a factory or meat-packing plant. There was […]

By Mary Lou Egan The event was called “Homecoming” although there were no parades, floats, football games or royalty. On Oct. 8, the century-old parish of Holy Rosary in Globeville invited everyone who had any […]

By Mary Lou Egan In Globeville’s early years, Washington Street hummed with small businesses— grocers, feed stores, barbers, blacksmiths, shoe repair shops, and billiard and soft drink parlors. For kids, the only building that mattered […]

By Mary Lou Egan Smelting was big business in Colorado, and from 1890 to 1900, accounted for two-fifths of the state’s economy. When industrialist Nathaniel P. Hill chose the high ground north of Denver to […]