A lot has been happening with the production… not only are there multiple news items yet-to-post from last month’s five-state tour of the Midwest (some really amazing stuff), but a lot has already happened during the still-ongoing Denver road trip.
On Monday, I visited the Denver Public Library’s research floor. There’s a special room for the most valuable archives. To get in, you need a special researcher card (at least if you’re from out-of-state, like me), and you must place all bags & coats in a locker before you may enter. Once inside, a library assistant will bring you a box containing your requested files on a cart. You must wear special gloves, and nothing may leave the room.
And inside the box pictured above, in a file marked “Organ Grinder Pizza Palace”, among photographs and news clippings was this little, lonely napkin, preserved so that future generations can get a feel for it. (Through gloves, of course.) They kindly let me photograph it, so that I could proclaim its existence to the world!
Meanwhile, in just the first four days of the trip, three interviews have been conducted, more have been arranged, and a local weekly newspaper interviewed me to learn all about what made the Organ Grinder special.
Stay tuned for what the next four days may bring.
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