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DENVER
TRIVIA
Provided by
the Denver Metro Convention and Visitor's Bureau
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In 1935, Louis
Ballast melted a slice of cheese on a hamburger at his Denver Humpty
Dumpty drive-in restaurant, and patented the invention as the world's
first "cheeseburger." The restaurant is gone today, but
there is a small memorial to this historic dining event at 2776 North
Speer Blvd.(in the parking lot for Key Bank).
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Denver truly
is one mile high. The 15th step on the west side of the State Capitol
Building is 5,280 feet (1,609 m) above sea level.
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It was on top
of nearby Pikes Peak in 1893 that Katherine Lee Bates was inspired
to write the words to "America the Beautiful."
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The mountainous
area of Colorado is six times the size of Switzerland and contains
9,600 miles (15,449 km) of fishing streams, 2,850 lakes and over 1,000
peaks two miles (3,218 km) high.
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The road up
14,260 foot (4,346 m) high Mount Evans is the highest paved road in
North America -- and it is maintained and operated by Denver City
Parks Department. Denver's Mountain Parks Department maintains 20,000
acres of park lands including its own private buffalo herd and Red
Rocks Amphitheatre -- all part of the largest city park system in
the nation.
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In hopes of
gaining political favors, local boosters named the frontier mining
camp on the South Platte River "Denver" after Kansas Territorial
Governor James Denver. They never received any favors -- by the time
they named the town, Denver had already resigned.
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There were originally
three separate towns on the current site of Denver, with three different
names. In 1859, in return for a barrel of whiskey to be shared by
all, the other names were dropped and the tent and log cabin city
officially became "Denver."
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Denver is one
of the few cities in history that was not on a road, railroad, lake,
navigable river or body of water when it was founded. Denver just
happened to be where the first few flakes of gold were found in 1858
and it was here that the first camp was made. The first permanent
structure was a saloon.
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The Indians
warned early settlers not to build there, but no one listened. In
its first few years, Denver was destroyed twice, by fire and flood.
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The dome of
the State Capitol in Denver is covered with 200 ounces of 24K gold,
but the really priceless building material was used inside as wainscoting.
It is Colorado onyx, a rare stone found near Beulah, Colorado. The
entire world's supply was used in this building and no more of it
has ever been found.
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The Denver Zoo
is the fourth most popular zoo in America (based on those with paid
admission fees) and has the 7th most diverse animal collection. The
zoo has 3,500 animals representing over 685 species of which 157 are
classified as threatened or endangered. It costs $38,000 a day to
care for the animals and operate the zoo.
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Denver Parks
Dept. grows 240,000 flowers a year in their own greenhouse, planting
them in 506 flower beds throughout the city. If laid end to end, these
plants would stretch for 56 miles (90 km). If placed together, the
city's flower beds would cover every foot of the of Colorado Convention
Center -- about seven acres of flowers.
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Some of Denver's
famous high school alumni include Golda Meir, a future Israeli prime
minister who attended North High School, and Douglas Fairbanks, who
was expelled from East High before becoming one of the most famous
silent movie stars of all time. Hattie McDaniel, the first African
American to win an Academy Award for her performance in Gone With
The Wind, also attended East High.
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Central City
(located 34 miles (55 km) west of Denver) is known as the "Richest
Square Mile on Earth" because of the half billion dollars of
gold mined there. A new "gold rush" was launched in Central
City in October 1991 when limited stakes casino gambling was legalized
for Central City and neighboring Black Hawk. Original projections
thought that only a few casinos would open in the first few years;
within one year of legalization, there were 41 casinos in the two
towns offering over 7,000 slot machines, poker tables and blackjack
games.
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The Colorado
Rockies opened on April 9, 1993 before 80,277 fans, the most to ever
witness an opening game in baseball history. The team went on to break
11 Major League Baseball records including most single season fans
-- 4,483,350 -- the most to ever attend any American sports team in
a single season.
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Coloradans love
sport-utility vehicles and full-size trucks. In 1996, as many Sport
Utility Vehicles and trucks were registered in Colorado as new cars;
126,056 SUVs
and trucks compared to 127,928 new cars.
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An 1872 Colorado
newspaper describing a new hotel -- the first in the city to feature
locks on the doors -- reported: "Guests may lie down to peaceful
slumbers, undisturbed by the apprehensions of getting their heads
blown off." In Denver's wild days, famous gunfighter Bat Masterson
was employed as a guard at several of the city's saloons, but today,
downtown Denver is one of the safest cities in America. There are
5,200 first class hotel rooms in downtown Denver and 24,000 beautiful
rooms throughout the city.
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Denver is a
popular setting for many authors. There are at least 25 novels where
the action takes place in the Mile High City, including Waiting to
Exhale by Terry McMillan, which became a critically acclaimed movie
and Jack Kerouac's classic, On the Road.
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The Pikes Peak
Railway is the highest cog railway in the world traveling 8.9 miles
from 6,571 feet to the summit at 14,110 feet.
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The Colorado
Trail is a 500-mile long hiking trail from Durango to Denver, crossing
eight mountain ranges, seven national forests, six wilderness areas
and five river systems.
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Colfax Avenue
is the longest continuous street in the United States.
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At 11,112 feet
above sea level, the Eisenhower Tunnel is the highest in the world.
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The highest
suspension bridge in the world is the Royal Gorge Bridge near Canon
City, which is 1,053 feet above the Arkansas River.
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The Mount Massive
Golf Course near Leadville is the highest in North America and Leadville
is the highest incorporated city in the U.S. at 10,430 feet.
- The 700-foot
high Great Sand Dunes National Park near Alamosa are the highest dunes
in the U.S.
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