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Angel’s Sports Bar is with the angels

After three years, Angel's is now with the angels, and its sprawling space at 1630 Federal Boulevard overlooking Invesco Field at Mile High has a "for lease" sign.Although it served Mexican food, Angel's real draws were the company and the location. And this past August, it also had an amazing...
By Patricia CalhounMarch 2, 2009
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After three years, Angel’s is now with the angels, and its sprawling space at 1630 Federal Boulevard overlooking Invesco Field at Mile High has a “for lease” sign.

Although it served Mexican food, Angel’s real draws were the company and the location. And this past August, it also had an amazing view of history: the hours-long line of people waiting to see Barack Obama’s acceptance speech snaked past and then behind Angel’s — along a dirty alley where a tenant was running a meth lab that was busted a couple of years ago. Reporter Joel Warner, who’d visited Angel’s for our 2006 feature on Federal, recognized the site, and snapped this shot as he waited in line.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12’s public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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