Liquor Stores
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Harry and Morris Hoffman Standing Inside Hoffman Liquor Store, circa 1955
Item
Identifier: B063.01.0001.00042
Abstract
Harry Hoffman and his father, Morris, pictured in the 1950s, stand next to a display at Denver's landmark Hoffman Liquor Store. The liquor establishment was founded in 1937.
Dates:
circa 1955
Harry Hoffman, 1994
File
Identifier: B111.05.0005.0013
Abstract
The son of Russian immigrants Fanny and Morris Hoffman, Harry helped out in his parents' grocery store, sold newspapers, and left school at age 14 to work full time in the family businesses (groceries and clothing). He married Lillian Butler in 1935. Later, Lillan founded the Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviety Jewry. Self-taught and well-read, Hoffman learned all about liquor and wine as he opened a liquor business in 1937. Four years later, Harry Hoffman Liquors was the leading...
Dates:
1994