I drove over to Old South Gaylord Street, located just to the east of Denver's Washington Park, Sunday afternoon to check out their annual Memorial Weekend Festival. Old South Gaylord is a block-long business district in the heart of the Washington Park neighborhood, very popular thanks to its interesting shops and many restaurants. They have held this festival for as long as I can remember. It is much more of a neighborhood gathering than a city-wide event, but it is still a lot of fun. And I was happy to see that the patio at Reivers Bar and Grill, a local favorite, was packed with people as I passed by. Max Gill and Grill was doing a good business, too. Back when I first moved to Denver, this bar and restaurant was called Hemingway's and was a favorite of the University of Denver crowd. Then they were sued by the Hemingway Estate and were forced to change their name. Somehow it never seemed the same after that. But that's just me.
At the festival there were all the usual booths selling food and drink, including Breckenridge Brewery, as well as live music. While I was there, Vince Converse and Big Brother were on stage, playing blues music, as seen in the photograph on the right, and they were actually quite good. And looking at the festival's website, I saw that Hazel Miller and the Collective were playing on Memorial Day. That is one of the few local musical groups I recognize. I fondly remember them from years ago when they played at some of the Friday night concerts on the 16th Street Mall, next to the Rock Bottom Brewery and Restaurant. And just why did they stop those concerts, anyway? And why did they stop A Taste of Colorado, one of the biggest and most popular festivals of the year, held in Civic Center Park over Labor Day weekend? Not to mention the People's Fair, which used to be the first big event of the summer. It is gone now too. But enough complaining. Best to just relax and enjoy what we have, right? What choice do we have?
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