Throughout its history, the city of Denver was home to saloons that served up a lot more than alcohol. Ken McConnellogue talks with CU Denver History Professor Tom Noel – aka Dr. Colorado – about the liquid history of Denver and how bars evolved throughout the ages and helped form the Denver of today.

* Ethnic and cultural importance of Denver’s early bars.
* The first bar and its significance to the community.
* Denver’s oldest surviving bar.
* A bar named for the city’s most colorful villain, the king of all Western con-men.
* Police entrapment in Denver’s early gay bars, and how the LGBTQ community leveraged it for gay rights.
* Colorado’s favorite bars in modern times.

Resources:

* The City and the Saloon: Denver, 1858-1916, by Tom Noel
* Dr. Colorado’s publications, history and student resources
* CU Denver Department of History