As Denverites hunt for Black Friday sales, they might get jealous looking back into history – when you could buy alligator leather slippers for 85 cents, lace curtains for $2.50 and a boy’s suit for $1.25.
Admittedly, these were 1897 prices at The Fair, a store at 16th and Champa streets, during what was advertised in a full-page ad in the Rocky Mountain News as “the greatest sale of the times.”
The Fair sold all sorts of goods: linens, silks and flannels for pennies, along with ladies’ opera shoes for $1.25, hose for 14 cents, and medications for 69 cents or less…