{"id":1040,"date":"2008-07-11T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2008-07-11T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T15:51:00","slug":"from-morgue-to-magic-and-metaphysics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1040","title":{"rendered":"From Morgue to Magic and Metaphysics"},"content":{"rendered":"


I stopped by the new home of Isis Books<\/a> on my way to INATS<\/a> last June 30.<\/p>\n

It’s the third home for the Denver area’s oldest Pagan-oriented bookstore, now about thirty years old.<\/p>\n

Chatting with owner Karen Charboneau-Harrison, I asked her what the building at 2775 South Broadway used to be — Google Maps still shows it as a plain commercial building with columns in front — until Karen and her husband Jeff turned them into Egyptian pillars.<\/p>\n

“A morgue,” she said. “The stained glass was already here when we moved in.”<\/p>\n

They have remodeled the former morgue garage into a set of little offices\/therapy rooms that are rented out to various counselors, massage therapists, etc., which is why the sign out front now says “Healing Oasis.”<\/p>\n

The bookstore is in what used to be the chapel, and there is plenty of room for the mail-order operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I stopped by the new home of Isis Books on my way to INATS last June 30. It’s the third home for the Denver area’s oldest Pagan-oriented bookstore, now about thirty years old. Chatting with owner Karen Charboneau-Harrison, I asked her what the building at 2775 South Broadway used to be — Google Maps still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[57,23],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-colorado"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-gM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":637,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=637","url_meta":{"origin":1040,"position":0},"title":"Ho hum, synchronicityOn my way\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"March 22, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Ho hum, synchronicityOn my way north on Monday, I stopped in at Isis Books. It was my first visit in several years, and I was pleasantly surprised to see the store enlarged and with more books (and stuff) than ever.I was chatting with owner Karen Charbonneau in the storeroom when\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6201,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6201","url_meta":{"origin":1040,"position":1},"title":"Isis Gets Some Ink*","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A fairly straight-forward article on one of the Denver area's longer-lived occult bookstores, Isis Books, appeared in Sunday's Denver Post. \"Makeshift Egyptian temple\" is not quite right, though. 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