ATDDTA (6) 176

[bekah]

But even with his new attitude, Lew stays in Denver working and 
visiting the colorful and historical local entertainment.   He gets a 
feel for local sentiments and has problems keeping his files 
straight.    He realizes that both the capitalists and the anarchists 
are organized and there may be another civil war,  only this time the 
railroads  have redesigned the shape of the land and country.


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176: 20	Pinhorn's Manhattan Steak House

The Manhattan restaurant ruled Denver's dining scene at 1635 Larimer 
Street.  Richard Pinhorn, the owner, had moved to this country from 
England in 1892 and started his restaurant four years later. It 
immediately became a favorite with the young city's movers and 
shakers, who flocked to the Manhattan to enjoy such delicacies as 
Denver's first onion rings.

"Look to the northwestern corner to see the site of the no-longer 
standing Manhattan Restaurant (1635 Larimer Street), which thrived 
for at least five decades (it was called "Denver's Most Famous 
Restaurant"  in period advertisements).

"In a passage about Denver, he mentions Pinhorn's Manhattan steak house"
<http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/book_reviews/article/ 
MN_27656_5148649,00.html>

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176:24	"...  hung out at Tortoni's* up on Arapahoe and Gahan's** 
saloon across from City Hall,  paid off enough of his losses at Ed's 
Arcade***   to stay friendly with associates of Ed Chase, the boss of 
the red-light district."

*Tortoni's - Italian restaurant located in the 1500 block of Arapahoe 
Street in downtown   Denver.
<http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_171-198#Page_176>

photo
<http://www.rootsweb.com/~codenver/miracle/104.htm>

** Gahan's	 - The building on the northwest corner of 14th and 
Larimer Streets,  across the street from City Hall,  was once Gahan's 
Saloon, a legendary watering hole for politicians, policemen and city 
hall reporters. Tales are told of the Gahan Saloon's notorious back 
room poker games. The onset of prohibition in 1916 led to the 
emergence of Gahan's Soft Drink Parlor. However, legend has it that 
the basement housed Denver's hottest speakeasy! Gahan
operated two other saloons, including one at 1133 Larimer Street, 
which he supposedly kept open on Sundays, harbored gambling, and 
sponsored a boys' baseball team that played for beer.

<http://www.larimersquare.com/info/history.cfm>    
<http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_171-198#Page_176>

*** Ed's Arcade	Ed Chase, the boss of the red-light district

Big Ed (1838-1921) was a New Yorker from Saratoga Springs who became 
the leader of criminal activities in Denver from 1860 on, and as such 
was an influential and respected man. He ran saloons, gambling 
houses, bordellos, and theaters (specializing in burlesque), and 
served on the Denver City Council from 1866-1869. After that, he was 
a behind-the-scenes ward boss and power broker for the Republican 
party, which dominated Denver politics at the time. Nearly every 19th 
century election in Denver was clouded by charges that Chase had 
organized an army of voters out of riffraff, vagrants, prostitutes, 
barflies and gamblers. By the time of his death in 1921, Chase had 
come to be regarded as a respected real estate investor and 
capitalist. For more info, consult The City & The
Saloon: Denver 1858-1918 by Thomas J. Noel.

<http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_171-198#Page_176>
Also:
<http://www.pokerplayernewspaper.com/viewarticle.php?id=1837>

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176:32  "It got like practically every day out here got another 
little  Haymarket dynamite not being quite the exotic substance it 
had been in Chicago."

On May 4th 1886 a workers' protest meeting was held at the West 
Randolph Street Haymarket in Chicago. A bomb was thrown at the 
police, the police opened fire and many officers and protesters were 
killed (chicagohistory.org)
<http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_171-198#Page_176>

This was the first dynamite bomb thrown in the US. 
<http://www.chicagohs.org/hadc/visuals/36V0640.htm>


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176: 37	"They were carrying, some of them, quite-sophisticated 
firearms, army-issue, Krag-Jorgensen rifles*, repeating shotguns**, 
field howitzers*** disassembled and packed along on strings of mules."

* Krag-Jorgensen rifles a repeating bolt action rifle designed by the 
Norwegians Ole Herman Johannes Krag and Erik Jørgensen in the late 
19th century. It was adopted as a standard arm by Denmark, the United 
States and
Norway.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krag-J%C3%B8rgensen>


** repeating shotgun
The Winchester Model 1887 and Winchester Model 1901 are a series of 
lever-action shotguns that were produced by Winchester Repeating Arms 
during the late 19th century and the early 20th century. The shotguns 
were originally designed by famed American gun designer and maker 
John Browning.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Model_1887/1901>

*** field howitzer -
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howitzer>

and photos of Civil War  artillery:
<http://www.petrov-petrov.si/~triglav/CW/CWarty.htm>

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