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IN 1906, one mile from my current residence in Denver’s Country Club neighborhood, my
great-grandfather Emil Johnson built a house located at 556 Corona Street, near the corner of
6th Ave
and Corona.
My grandmother, and later my father, grew up in this house.
 Emil Johnson
As a boy in the early 1930’s my father
sacked groceries at the next-door Safeway grocery store that was then
located on 6th Ave.
My family owned the home until the early 50’s. In 1957, the Safeway
expanded onto Corona Street.
The corporation bought the house and tore it down for parking lot
space…
For nearly forty years our old home site was an
unused corner of the Safeway’s parking lot; however, in the
mid-1990s, Safeway again rebuilt their store. The “left-turn”
arrow into the current Safeway store on Corona St. points almost directly to
the former front-door of my family’s home.
Unfortunately, the record of our family’s
home was over-looked in the Alamo Placita
historic neighborhood designation documentations.
Below are some pictures I took of my
father, Carl W. Nelson, Jr. in the Spring of 2003, placing him in
relationship to old pictures of him taken in the 1940’s from the
porch and sidewalk in front of our old house.
–Mark
David Nelson
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