The unsolved murder of an Indian activist. Once Colfax was the premier residential address in Colorado, with elaborate homes built on fortunes made and lost in silver. Young women strip to the bare essentials on one end.
Old men sit naked in a eucalyptus steam bath on the other.
It starts with a real cowboy and ends with a neon one. In between, the longest continuous commercial highway in America runs like a river of asphalt 26 miles long. For the past four years, LoDo photographer Jim Havey has been panning for history from the banks of that river. It opens July 7 on Colfax at the Fillmore Auditorium. The Denver Rocky Mountain News put Havey in the back seat of a cherry red convertible one recent afternoon and drove him along the 23-mile length of Colfax.