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Article: Close, and some cigars.(DEVON'S PUB )
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- August 1, 2006
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FOR FIVE YEARS NOW, DEVON'S PUB IN SOUTHEAST DENVER HAS been a typical neighborhood bar, with a dozen stools for bellying up to a polished wood bar, a pool table in back, a couple TVs showing sports, and shelves of cigars along a back wall behind sliding-glass doors.
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Ah, those fine cigars: more precious than anybody at Devon's could have known.
Literally overnight because of those stogies, the little bar on East Hampden Avenue and Happy Canyon Road went from commonplace to practically one of a kind. I learned this firsthand on the eve of the Fourth of July when a man seated to my left at the packed bar ordered a ...