Apparently a hotel by the name of Alpine Rose was serving as a major drug and prostitution haven which is about 20 blocks from mi casa.
An accused drug kingpin lived in Room 34, cooking powder cocaine into crack and ordering his henchmen to beat up people who crossed him.
A prostitute, sometimes offered as a free incentive to customers who bought hefty quantities of narcotics, worked in Room 38.
The upstairs balcony served as an execution site after one drug deal went bad.
Court documents portray the Alpine Rose, at Federal Boulevard and West 62nd Avenue, as a motel from hell.
Last Spring I decided to take the 31 downtown from my place for the hell of it, and lets just say I haven’t done it again. At the time I was putting some new drum brakes on my Accord which at the time was a new technique to me, so it took a bit longer than I expected. Being that it was my only car at the time and I felt like doing something other than finishing the brakes, the bus adventure seemed like a nice break.
Heading downtown in the middle of a Saturday afternoon via Federal was not really a big deal, nothing I didn’t expect really. The bus ride home which was at around 9 PM that evening was filled with a very “interesting” cesspool of people. The bus was marked-up with Sharpie graffiti and knife carving, and it smelled of something between alchohol, vomit, and piss. This was a drastically different experience from when I used to take the B route to work downtown or to Boulder for sure…
The best part of the whole experience; I can remember people getting on and off at this hotel who were all fairly scary. How could you forget a bunch of strung-out people getting on and off of the bus near Rocky’s Autos, right? One of the women that got off on this stop on the trip back was definitely strung-out on something and basically got in a fight with another male passenger (who was a stranger to her) on the way back.
To summarize; even then I pretty much already had the opinion that the place was some sort of crack hotel. Good times!
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