Photos: SantaCon brought out the bowl full of jelly in everyone over the weekend

How do you like to celebrate the impending Christmas holiday? For lots of Denver bar-hoppers, it made lots of sense to don Santa suits -- and other Christmasy nonsense -- to hit the town's taverns en masse, as similar groups are known to do in cities like New York and...

By Westword Staff

December 23, 2013

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How do you like to celebrate the impending Christmas holiday? For lots of Denver bar-hoppers, it made lots of sense to don Santa suits -- and other Christmasy nonsense -- to hit the town's taverns en masse, as similar groups are known to do in cities like New York and San Francisco. Photographer Ken Hamblin III was there to capture every quaff, strand of tinsel and merry ho-ho-ho when SantaCon Denver went down over the weekend. A sample of his fun photos follows.

See also: XXXmas Craftfair at MCA Denver

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