{"id":6201,"date":"2013-12-30T15:05:37","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T22:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6201"},"modified":"2013-12-30T15:05:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T22:05:37","slug":"isis-gets-some-ink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6201","title":{"rendered":"Isis Gets Some Ink*"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A fairly straight-forward article on one of the Denver area’s longer-lived occult bookstores, Isis Books, appeared in Sunday’s Denver Post<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n

“Makeshift Egyptian temple” is not quite right, though. The building used to be a mortuary with columns out front (where the limos used to pull up) that lent themselves to an Egyptian-inspired paint scheme.<\/p>\n

The store started in Denver on East Colfax Avenue, not far from Hubcap Annie’s<\/a>, the used hubcap store, which gives you a sense of the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

If I remember correctly (always debatable), the first owner wasn’t making a go of it, and her landlord, this Jewish guy with no interest in Paganism, etc., took over. Karen Charboneau moved up from clerk to manager to owner, overseeing moves first to a bigger space on Colfax and then to the close-in suburb of Englewood, as well as developing a large mail-order operation.<\/a><\/p>\n

*My reference point is always printing, not body art.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. The building used to be a mortuary with columns out front (where the limos used to pull up) that lent themselves to an Egyptian-inspired paint scheme. 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