The Bookstore where I work on East Evans Avenue here in Denver used to be the Bonfils Theater. In fact, I personally attended maybe a zillion rehearsals for the Mikado in this building when my then wife Lisa played one of the three little maids back in 1982. I also attended a lecture there by Henry Lowenstein, who ran the theater for many years and later had it renamed after him. It was at that lecture that I first learned that a river ran underneath the building. After a large amount of rain this past spring and a little bit of flooding, the covers over a number of cylindrical holes on the bottom level of the Bookstore were uncovered for a few days and water could be seen at the bottom of them. One of my fellow employees told me it was the Farmer's Canal, and if I dropped a fishing line down there, I might very well start catching fish. The big question is, why would anyone construct a building over a river? Back in Chicago, we built buildings next to rivers, but never actually over one. Must be a Colorado thing.
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