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A man hangs a New Year scroll on a building in “HopAlley,” a downtown neighborhood that reportedlyincluded opium dens. Chinese immigrants cameto Denver after the transcontinental railroad was completed.They lived mostly in an area bounded by Blake, Market,19th and 22nd streets. Photo was taken about 1910 to1915.
A man hangs a New Year scroll on a building in “HopAlley,” a downtown neighborhood that reportedlyincluded opium dens. Chinese immigrants cameto Denver after the transcontinental railroad was completed.They lived mostly in an area bounded by Blake, Market,19th and 22nd streets. Photo was taken about 1910 to1915.
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Today is Sunday, Feb. 3, the 34th day of 2008. There are 332 days left in the year.

1908: John Classic, 18, of Aspen was spared from being buried alive. His eyebrow twitched as he was laid out on the local “dead wagon” to be conveyed to a undertaker before being prepared for burial.

1958: A legislative bill to impose a 10 percent state sales tax on liquor was decried as a “plot by dry leaders who are out to wreck the liquor industry.”

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