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Article: HISTORY FOR SALE OWN A HOME IN DENVER'S FABLED TEA ROOM.(Home Front)(Interior Design Page)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- April 27, 1997
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Byline: Mark Wolf Rocky Mountain News
Jim Thoeming walks across a bare floor, crossing a space that's eventually going to be somebody's bedroom.
A waiter carrying a tray of lunches for a table of women pauses to let him pass.
Of course, you have to imagine the waiter and the tray and the table of women, but it's difficult to imagine anything else on the fifth floor of the Denver Dry.
For 80 years - less two months - the Tea Room served lunches to ladies in white gloves out for serious socializing over chicken a la king in patty shells and a business crowd looking for food with a view. On Saturdays leading up to Christmas, the Tea Room ...