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