Jewish businesspeople
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Boxing: Coffee, 1950-1976
File
Identifier: B132.01.0001.0002
Abstract
Joe 'Awful' Coffee, born Joseph Rutkowski in Minsk, Russian Empire in 1905 was a major figure on the Denver sports scene. After boxing, as a featherweight, for ten years across the Rocky Mountain region, he retired and went to college at the University of Denver. After graduation, Joe worked for the May Company, and then opened up Joe 'Awful' Coffee's Ringside Lounge in 1943. Coffee's restaurant operated for some 23 years, closing in 1966, and attracting such notables as Jack Dempsey,...
Dates:
1950-1976
Individuals, 1962-1994
File
Identifier: B113.01.0001.0004
Abstract
File contains newspaper clippings from 1962-1994 that are about individual people in the Jewish Denver community. The majority of the articles are from the early 1980s.
Dates:
1962-1994