#Mercury coffee free#

This was the very beginning of industrial music. The only part I questioned were the references to Nirvana and other bands that if they were even a sparkle in the eye of history yet or not, were way off our radar. How lucky we were to have each other and this amazing place to bring tears to my eyes because homeless, these were the best years of my life.

#Mercury coffee free#

I'm surprised someone wouldn't have noticed us as we were the table hopping free meal for work after closing teenagers who made that place our home. We were there to have a safe place while gangs were scary bad to be from 6pm-4am every night.

My 'crew' of biker jacket clad, Doc Marten or engineer boot wearing, shaved head with mohawks or other edgy haircuts was made up of up to 18 or 20 of us. I was also one of those homeless teenagers. We hope the menus for Paris, MuddyвЂ™s and the Mercury Cafe from our collection will do the same for you. The menus held in the Denver Public LibraryвЂ™s collection are like Marcel ProustвЂ™s famous madeleine cookie,В unleashing a wave of memories. Food in particular can be memory-charged, with one whiff or taste unleashing a flood of nostalgia. Known as ephemera, these oft-overlooked items might include a concert ticket stub, a note tossed from a friend in class or even a menu from your favorite restaurant. When weвЂ™re fortunate, snippets of these daily ephemeral moments are collected and preserved in archives. While the formal events in life are often documented, the experiences that shape us as people-family cooking, a childhood friendship, a concert that moved us-have no stone monuments to commemorate them. This neglected urban decay somehow provided an extra spark of ersatz danger so necessary to a constructed teen identity.Д®very era leaves behind traces of evidence, from architecture to art. An abandoned 16th street viaduct bridge connecting the Northside to the rest of the city crumbled at one edge of downtown South Broadway featured a collection of run-down bars and businesses at another. Nighttime left the streets of downtown eerily empty, and the ballpark and LoDo had yet to bring commerce to quiet warehouse districts. Real estate was not yet a topic on anyoneвЂ™s radar. DenverвЂ™s Gen Xers grew up in a smaller city than the one we live in today, a less populous, less glitzy, more gritty place.