Costco to Host Book Signing for Local Denver Area Authors

LITTLETON, Colo. - June 9, 2015 - 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.

Sample the hearty helpings at the Hungry Dutchman and the dainty morsels at the Denver Dry Goods Tearoom to get a taste of a tradition rich with innovation, hard work, and crazy ideas. Waitresses, chefs, owners, and suppliers bring back the restaurants of yesteryear by sharing success stories and signature recipes. Just don’t be surprised by sudden cravings for savory cannolis from Carbones, rich Mija Pie from Baur’s, egg rolls at the Lotus Room, or chile rellenos at Casa Mayan.

Lakewood native Robert Autobee is a historian with the Colorado Department of Transportation and has spent the past two decards as a historian for state and federal agencies. Kristen Autobee, the former curator and administrator of Lakewood’s Heritage Center, is a research associate with Morgan, Angel & Associates in Washington, DC.

Join the authors for a signing:

Where:  Costco

7900 W Quincy Ave., Littleton CO 80123

When:Saturday, June 20^th, 2014; 1:00 p.m.—3:00 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.

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Early Lakewood

by Kristen Autobee, Lakewood’s Heritage Center

Images of America Series

128 pages/ softcover

 Published: June 20, 2011

Lost Restaurants of Denver

by Robert Autobee, Kristen Autobee

American Palate Series

160 pages/ softcover

Published: January 12, 2015