Costco to Host Book Signing for Local Lakewood, CO Authors

LITTLETON, Colo. - May 22, 2014 - PRLog -- Since Lakewood’s settlement in the 1860s, it has been a community in search of an identity, fluctuating from farm center to factory town, from Denver streetcar suburb to the map’s stopover point between the big city and the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Once known for its fruit orchards and dairy and poultry farms, Lakewood in modern times has been home to the western third of the nation’s longest commercial street, Colfax Avenue, and houses more federal agencies than any community outside of Washington, DC.

Most of the buildings associated with Lakewood’s agricultural and manufacturing past are gone but the can-do spirit of the men and women who forged and fashioned the city’s destiny as a microcosm of western American life from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries is recalled in these pages.

Join the Authors for a Book Signing!

Where:  Costco

7900 West Quincy Avenue, Littleton CO 80123

When: Saturday, May 31^st, 2013; 11:30 a.m.—1:30 p.m.

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at www.arcadiapublishing.com or

(888)-313-2665.

Arcadia Publishing is the leading publisher of local and regional history in the United States.  Our mission is to make history accessible and meaningful through the publication of books on the heritage of America’s people and places.  Have we done a book on your town?  Visit www.arcadiapublishing.com.

Early Lakewood

by Robert and Kristen Autobee with Lakewood's Heritage Center

Images of America Series

128 pages/ softcover

Published: June 20, 2011