Photos: Denver Gets Ready for the Convention



The Fillmore Auditorium hosted the New Orleans All Star Jam-Balaya, a benefit concert for
Friends of New Orleans on Sunday night.

Delegates and media were welcomed to the
Mile High City by the largest welcome
signage program in Denver history.









































                                   The City's innovative new bike-share program, Freewheelin, offered up hundreds of 
                                    bikes, free of charge. for locals and visitors to explore Denver on.



  Thousands of volunteers will
    meet and greet delegates
    all over the city. These two
    are pictured at the Colorado
    Convention Center.












More than 15,000 members of the media -- coming from virtually every part of the globe -- are
descending upon Denver this week. Above, C-SPAN's van is dwarfed by the Colorado
Convention Center's Big Blue Bear.


 Workers put together MSNBC's vast media  
 center near Union Station in LoDo (Lower
 Downtown).

















  Vintage locomotives are
  rolling into Union Station
  this week.
















More vintage train action.



















Delegates queue up Monday morning to get their credentials for the Convention -- not to
mention their daily caffeine fix!

  The Denver Municipal Band
  performs in Skyline Park.
 Their set was made up of 
 tunes associated with the last
 Denver Democratic National
 Convention, which took place
 a century ago.











There will be plenty of DNC-
related merchandise available
this week, on the 16th Street
Mall and elsewhere.

An Obama supporter and his four-legged
friend make the rounds on the 16th Street
Mall.