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An early photograph of th 16th Street mall, taken from the corner of 16th and Champa streets in 1939.

Denver @ 150: History sifts fact from fable 3 comments

39 minutes ago "History would be a wonderful thing," Leo Tolstoy once observed, "if it were true." Still, the untidy collision of fable and fact — punctuated by violence and greed, folly, vision and heroism — that comprises the 150-year history of Denver is splendid to behold. Even in miniature. Above, a view of the 16th Street Mall taken from Champa Street in 1939.

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