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FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2003

"The business cards for the Anasazi Restaurant & Lounge — a single-story roadhouse in Cortez, Colo., whose Saturday night prime rib special ($14.50 for 8 ounces, $16.50 for 10) attracts both locals and truckers bunking at the adjacent motel — list the address as 640 S. Broadway.

And therein lies a tale.

About 15 years ago, June Merrett, who owned the Anasazi then, decided that the address of her establishment was unacceptable. As though it wasn't inauspicious enough to be stuck squarely on U.S. Route 666, the building's number was also 666. So along with adopting the local name of the road as it crosses through town — Broadway — she convinced officials at City Hall to switch the address of the Anasazi to 640.

"She said, `Why should we have the double devil?' " Ruth E. Russell, the Anasazi's lounge manager, recalled. "She said three sixes is enough."

Now, it seems even three sixes are too many."

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