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 Turn left on 2nd St. Blink and you’ll miss the Chama River Microbar tucked in the southwest corner of the Sunshine Building. The mural across the street is Mother Road, a tribute to Route 66 (Central Ave.) by Working Classroom. Poke your head in the alley ahead for Ernest Doty’s raven composition in aerosol and house paint, We Exist Somewhere Between Limbo and Purgatory. Past that is my personal favorite, Totem of the Ancient Ones, a triptych mural by Thomas Christopher Haag.

 Turn right on Gold Ave. The first building on your left housed the National Institute of Flamenco for 15 years before it burned down at the end of 2013. Sidewalk cafés, art venues, and other hip ventures come and go on this quiet block. Vacancies are common and soon filled with pleasant surprises. Ahead at the northwest corner of 3rd St. stands the distinctive Occidental Life Insurance Building. Henry C. Trost designed this 1917 masterpiece to resemble Doge’s Palace in Venice. A fire in 1933 destroyed its mahogany and Circassian walnut interior, but its glazed white terra-cotta tile façade of Venetian Gothic arches remains largely intact.