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Help choose Denver’s next Spirit Channeler!

Voodoo customers, fans and loyalists! We need your help in choosing our next Spirit Channeler for our up-and-coming second location in Denver, Colorado – coming this summer. Our one-of-a-kind black velvet paintings are featured at every Voodoo Doughnut location. These paintings embody the individual Spirit of each shop and help to channel these Spirits during each of our wedding ceremonies. They are vital to each Voodoo Doughnut location and a crucial piece of artwork in our space. This is where we need your help! Vote below for our next Spirit Channeler!

Gus Mavrocefalos - Owner of Famous Pizza in Denver, Colorado (1974-2018). For over 4 decades, Mavrocefalos slung pizza and calzones, filling the local community with smiles, delicious smells & full bellies. Famous Pizza was the neighborhoods go-to spot for a quick slice, a sit-down snack or picking up a whole pie to-go. After serving the public for almost half of his life Gus decided to call it quits. The newest Voodoo Doughnut location, which will be taking over this iconic and famous pizza spot is set to open summer 2019!

John Elway - American football quarterback John Elway won two Super Bowl titles during a highly successful 16-year playing career with the Denver Broncos. Elway is currently general manager and president of football operations of the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL) and owns several successful businesses in Denver, Colorado.

Lindsey Vonn - American alpine skier Lindsey Vonn, a 2010 Olympic gold medalist, has won four World Cup overall titles and owns the record for most World Cup wins by a woman. Vonn trained in Colorado for several years and now resides in Vail, Colorado.

Blue Mustang - Known to Denver locals by the nickname Blucifer. This cast-fiberglass sculpture of a mustang is located at the Denver International Airport. Colored bright blue, with illuminated glowing red eyes, this statue was created by Luis Jiménez and notable for its striking appearance.

Neal Cassady - (February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968) Major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic and counterculture movements of the 1960s. Cassady was prominently featured as himself in the "scroll" (first draft) version of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road, and served as the model for the character Dean Moriarty in the 1957 version of that book. In many of Kerouac's later books, Cassady is represented by the character Cody Pomeray. Cassady also appeared in Allen Ginsberg's poems, and in several other works of literature by other writers.

Other:

*Your suggestion must be from Colorado (bonus points if they're from Denver) and/or have been a significant impact on the great city of Denver. Being that they've achieved a high ranking, started initiates to better the community, broke a world record, achieved pop icon status or the like.

All submissions will be reviewed by the Voodoo Doughnut elves. Stay tuned for the unveiling of our new Spirit Channeler!