The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments....
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Figure 25. Westwood: Shaved shrub serves as shelter for Cher statuette
Westwood was annexed into Denver in 1947, but it manages to maintain its country-bumpkin charms. The diagonal dissection of Morrison Road gives the neighborhood the feel of a once prosperous Midwestern city bypassed by the interstate highway in 1962. Perhaps because of this, and the fact that it is one of the most eclectically diverse neighborh
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The tiara-topped, oversized red guitar sitting on the new Westwood welcome sign seems to have magically appeared out of nowhere last weekend, but it has actually been over ten years in the making.
The newly landscaped corner lot where Morrison Road meets South Sheridan Blvd. was originally part and parcel of a neighborhood bond issue approved by Denver voters way back in 1998. What was once a weed-filled vacant lot is now "Un Corrido Para La Gente," Denver artist