Summary: Throughout its history, the city of Denver was home to saloons that served up a lot more than alcohol. <a href="https://www.cu.edu/office-president/ken-mcconnellogue">Ken McConnellogue</a> talks with <a href="ucdenver.edu">CU Denver</a> History Professor <a href="http://www.dr-colorado.com/">Tom Noel</a> – aka Dr. Colorado – about the liquid history of Denver and how bars evolved throughout the ages and helped form the Denver of today.<br> <br> * Ethnic and cultural importance of Denver’s early bars.<br> * The first bar and its significance to the community.<br> * Denver’s oldest surviving bar.<br> * A bar named for the city’s most colorful villain, the king of all Western con-men.<br> * Police entrapment in Denver’s early gay bars, and how the LGBTQ community leveraged it for gay rights.<br> * Colorado’s favorite bars in modern times.<br> <br> Resources:<br> <br> * <a href="https://www.amazon.com/City-Saloon-Denver-1858-1916/dp/0870814265/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1513960065&sr=8-1&keywords=Thomas+J.+Noel+history+of+bars+in+Denver">The City and the Saloon: Denver, 1858-1916, </a>by Tom Noel<br> * <a href="http://www.dr-colorado.com/">Dr. Colorado’s publications, history and student resources</a><br> * <a href="http://www.historyincolorado.org/">CU Denver Department of History</a><br> <br>
