Charles Boettcher, who built Colorado's largest and most diversified industrial empire, started out with this corner store and the slogan “Hardware, Hard Goods and Hard Cash.” Boettcher, a German immigrant, lived at 925 Pearl Street. After he moved on to Leadville and then Denver, the upper floor of his hardware store was converted to a theater, a frivolity on which he would have frowned.
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