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September 1941. "Old beer depot in mining town. Leadville, Colorado." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
The smaller of the two little guys, closest to the building. What a dollbaby. Love his confident stride.
Try as I may, I cannot figure out what messages were
printed and overprinted on the lower two lines on that wall.
Does anybody have a clue?
Those kids absolutely did not explore that building.
I say that because among the great disappointments of my life was Coors Beer. Due to its limited accessibility east of the Mississippi, a mystique developed around the brew "born out of pure Rocky Mountain water." As a college student in Maine, I finally got a can of Coors in the late '70s, only to discover that it had no flavor whatsoever. I can't understand why Coors survived and Beer Depot Beer did not.
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