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My Brother’s Bar, which has a framed let-
ter from Cassady to the bartender hanging
by the pay phone. Cassady often visited
the area near the confluence of the South
Platte and Cherry Creek with his father
on Sundays to socialize with down-and-
out friends.
An effort to build a new airport in the
late 1980s, under the leadership of Denver
mayor Federico Peña, led to the opening
of Denver International Airport in 1995.
DIA, which will welcome many attend-
ees of JSM, is one of the busiest airports
in the country and, by land area, one of
the largest in the world. The main termi-
nal with its tented roof, said to resemble
snow-capped mountains or the teepees of
the native people who used to occupy this
land, is named for Elrey B. Jeppesen, an
Red Rocks Amphitheatre is a 9,000-seat arena
that has been carved out of 70-million-year-
early aviator and publisher of navigational
old red sandstone rocks. Photo by Ron Ruhoff.
maps and flying charts who built his busi-
Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau.
ness in Denver in 1941. Peña became sec-
retary of transportation and later secretary
of energy under President Clinton, and the
the Strother Walker Memorial Award on an main roadway from the airport to Denver
outstanding doctoral student. is named for him.
Prominent Denver socialite Margaret The local economy has always been
The home of “Unsinkable Molly Brown” is a pop-
Brown was aboard the Titanic on its maid- dependent on natural resources, including
ular tourist attraction in Denver. Photo courtesy
en voyage in 1912. Brown was quoted after oil and gas exploration, tourism associated
of Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau.
being rescued that her survival was due with the Rocky Mountains, and mining
to the luck that ran in the Brown family, activities. A temporary collapse in the oil
concrete and rock on top of the original famously continuing, “We’re unsinkable.” industry in the 1980s led one unemployed
grave put to rest any fears the good citizens She was then dubbed Unsinkable Molly geologist, John Hickenlooper, to change
of Cody would attempt to claim the body Brown, a name by which she is remem- careers and start a restaurant and brewpub,
unscrupulously. bered today. Her Denver mansion has Wynkoop Brewing Company. Wynkoop is
Of special interest to statisticians may been restored and is open to the public as often credited with starting the revitaliza-
be two nearby mountain parks, Red Rocks a museum. tion of the Lower Downtown (i.e., LoDo)
Park and Mount Falcon Park. The first was Attendees at JSM will spend much of area of Denver. LoDo is at the end of the
sold to the city of Denver and the second their time in the Colorado Convention 16th Street Mall pedestrian area and adja-
was donated to Jefferson County by John Center in downtown Denver. The conven- cent to Coors Field, home of the Major
Brisben Walker, former editor and owner of tion center is just north of Cherry Creek. League Baseball team and current National
Cosmopolitan magazine. Walker purchased Today, this inconspicuous waterway is League pennant holders, the Colorado
the Stanley Steamer Company in 1899, most recognizable for the pedestrian and Rockies. LoDo now houses a good selec-
which proved to be somewhat unwise, as he bike paths on its banks, but in August of tion of local restaurants and nightlife and
failed to compete against the internal com- 1933, floodwaters surrounded the cur- should be a place for social activity during
bustion engine of Henry Ford. You might rent site of the convention center, leav- JSM. Hickenlooper, meanwhile, became
want to take the popular day hike at Mount ing a foot of water on the floor of Union more involved in civic activities, was elect-
Falcon Park to the ruins of the Walker cas- Station and killing seven people. A reser- ed mayor of Denver, and recently sold his
tle, which burned in 1918. Nearby, is a site voir upstream has made the reoccurrence interest in Wynkoop.
proposed as the location of a summer White of this event unlikely but—as statisticians Shortly after JSM concludes, Denver
House for presidents of the United States, know—not impossible. will host the 2008 Democratic National
a building that never progressed much past Denver was something of a center for Convention, as one of the two major polit-
the foundation stage. Having made and lost the Beat Generation in the 1950s and ical parties in the country will convene to
several fortunes, Walker died penniless. His 1960s. Neal Cassady was raised in Denver, nominate its candidate for the presidency.
grandson, Strother Walker, founded the and his friend Jack Kerouac immortal- This is reminiscent of 1996, when President
largest statistical group in the Denver area, ized the city in the Beat classic, On the Clinton was nominated for re-election by
the Biometrics Section (soon to be a depart- Road. (Cassady appeared in the book in the Democratic Party in Chicago a few
ment) of the University of Colorado Health the form of Dean Moriarty.) Kerouac and weeks after the Joint Statistical Meetings
Sciences Center, which annually bestows Cassady frequented a local watering hole, concluded there. n
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