Name some OLD Colorado memories. Places you remember, events too. 1989 or older.

[HBARleatherneck]

I will start with

Celebrity Sports Center
Davies Chuckwagon Diner (old but still around)
Playworld on Colfax by Casa Bonita
Heritage Square
North Pole
Buckskin Joes
Dragon Lady on E Colfax
Baby Doe's
Mouse Trap

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I wont name them all, you list some.

[TEAMRICO]

Face to Face cash and carry sales…..

[eddiememphis]

Saturday's on East Colfax.

[rfenster]

Eisenhower and Johnson tunnels being built.
Woolworths (not Colorado specific)
Colorado Mining Company
McNichols Arena, named after Honorable? Denver mayor William McNichols, Jr. Who was in office at the time that the arena was named.

[HBARleatherneck]

Garts Sports Castle

I saw the last concert they had at McNichols. ZZ Top.

Denver Bears Baseball.

https://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/bush.jpg?w=1024

[SAnd]

Driving south on Highway 25 and coming over the ridge (?) at about 120th and not see the high rises in downtown Denver because of the Brown Cloud.
Or an a bad day following the brown cloud down the Platte almost to Nebraska. In my little airplane.
The oval race track by Lakeside Amusement Park.
Gun Shops on Colfax.
Cinderella City Mall
Gates Tire factory.

[Wolfshoon]

Blick?s Sporting Goods
Germer Jeans
Venatucci?s pumpkin patch in widefield security
Zebs Steakhouse
Mr Steak
Landmark Windmill Restaurant (means we are only half an hour away from Denver) on I25
Western Sizzlin
Traildust Steakhouse
Eliches GARDENS
Celebrity Fun Center
Mack and Jamie on channel 2
French s gunshop
big water amusement park just east of I25 and arapahoe
service merchandise
best merchandise
Pat s delicatessen
Candy Cane strip club
Wagon Wheel bar (SOS hangout by the olympic center)
Castle Rock and Black Forest are (where the poor people live), lol
Pasternack s Pawnshop
When the commerce city refinery blew up in 1977 or 1978 on I270
GodFathers Pizza

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[BPTactical]

The Gun Room when it was at 11th & Broadway
Cinderella City
Jimbos Slot Cars
Organ Grinder Pizza
Under the YumYum Tree
The Lift in Glendale (and all of Glendales bars back in the day)
Sam’s on Lookout Mountain
After the Gold Rush
Aloha Beach
Boogie Down
Panama Reds
Lakeside Speedway
Cruising 16th Street and racing on the viaducts.
Second Creek Raceway
Englewood Speedway
Centennial Racetrack
Shakeys Pizza
Watching rocket motor tests happening at Martin Marietta from my house- the hills behind the hogback would glow and it sounded like 10 minutes of thunder
Littleton Airport

[eddiememphis]

Mouse Trap

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https://www.ar-15.co/threads/191614-I-have-lived-here-long-enough-to?highlight=mousetrap

And a link to the same topic from two years ago.

[BushMasterBoy]

Marching in the snow at Lowry AFB.

Watching a training film about nukeing a foreign county.

Driving to the top of Pikes Peak in a rented VW Beetle.





Per Ardua ad Astra

[rfenster]

Garts Sports Castle

I saw the last concert they had at McNichols. ZZ Top.

Denver Bears Baseball.

https://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/bush.jpg?w=1024

I forgot about that game. Nice photo!

[crays]

Going downtown during the holidays and looking at all the department store window displays; JCP, Joslins, Denver Dry Goods/May Co., Woolworths, etc.

[TFOGGER]

Christmas Blizzard of 82
Thanksgiving Blizzard of 83
Cruising West Colfax
4 wheeling at Mom's Hill by Jeffco Fairgrounds
Salvaging parts from the crashed cars on the north side of Lookout Mountain
High School drags at Bandimere

[BPTactical]

Gorgeous girls who actually cared what they looked like when they stepped out of the house.
Gorgeous girls that didn't look like a tackle box exploded on their face.
Gorgeous girls that didn't look like a Dali painting threw up on their skin.
Gorgeous girls whose hair color was actually a normal hair color.
Gorgeous girls in midriff tops and blue jeans.
Gorgeous girls in tube tops & snug gym shorts.
Gorgeous girls in painters overalls.
Going into a store and not seeing all of the virtue signaling shit.
PEACHES Records & Tapes
Budget Tapes & Records
Pizza Hut & 3.2 beer.

[crays]

Being able to drive up to the mountains actually doing the speed limit (or whatever your vehicle could do) and easily find a camping spot
Heritage Square back in its heyday
Lift tickets under $20
Lane's Tavern for platters of Coors

[TFOGGER]

The Short tour at Coors: Straight from the bus to the lounge for free beer. They limited you to 2, but if you knew how to time it, you could catch the shift change at the bar and double up. It got to the point where the beertenders know our faces, and would just serve us.

[BladesNBarrels]

CU Boulder Associated Women's Students curfew - back to Dorms by 10:00 pm and then all the men going to the Sink and other 3.2 Beer bars.
Denver flood in 1965
Left for the service 1965-1970 and returned to I-70 elevated through Denver, Chatfield Reservoir under construction.
Men and women living together in co-ed Dorms at CU Boulder
Hippies camping in Boulder Creek Canyon and Clear Creek Canyon

[Delfuego]

Catching air on County Line Road
Jumping off the Chatfield Spillway
$5-15 Gold-C Lift Tickets
3.2% Beer Night Clubs
15th Street Viaduct
Mall Crawl Riots
Kinectics

[Great-Kazoo]

Tigers Tail on sante fe. :)

When there was a height limit on buildings in denver. So no one's view of the mountains.

The Divide on broadway. Araps on S. broadway a good place for lunch or after work cocktails after RMHD closed for the day.

[JoeRoss]

Drive in movies.

[JoeRoss]

Villa Italia Mall
Imploded Montgomery Ward building (south Broadway)

[eddiememphis]

Hippies camping in Boulder Creek Canyon and Clear Creek Canyon

Still have that, especially near downtown Denver.

[DDT951]

The Short tour at Coors: Straight from the bus to the lounge for free beer. They limited you to 2, but if you knew how to time it, you could catch the shift change at the bar and double up. It got to the point where the beertenders know our faces, and would just serve us.


The was affectionally known as "Coors Lab"....

[O2HeN2]

Manitou Springs Incline

[flogger]

Cinder-Alley

[Wolfshoon]

Cog railroad from Broadmoor Hotel to Cheyenne Mountain zoo
Rodeo arena at the Broadmoor
Three ice skating rinks at the Broadmoor
Cog railroad going up Pikes Peak
Broadmoor Ski slope by the zoo
Broadmoor Trap and skeet range next to the ski area
Tornado touchdown in Manitou Springs that traveled down I24 to 21st street

[Doc45]

Did anyone mention Cinderella City yet? I became good friends with the owners of the Gun Room (Bill &Lola) and Ikey Starks next door at Sports West when I moved here in 1984. Wish I still had my Ikey built Colt Commander sigh.

Bill made me a few good deal or three on S&Ws.

[Bentsight]

$20.00 lift tickets, driving under the runway on I-70 at Stapelton Airport, Flying W ranch and Magpul...

[BPTactical]

Did anyone mention Cinderella City yet? I became good friends with the owners of the Gun Room (Bill &Lola) and Ikey Starks next door at Sports West when I moved here in 1984. Wish I still had my Ikey built Colt Commander sigh.

Bill made me a few good deal or three on S&Ws.

I have a bunch of tooling from Ikey’s estate sale.

[HBARleatherneck]

We have talked about old gun stores in various threads. I remember buying from Deans, Old West Arms and Foothills. Foothills used to have water cooled machine guns set up in the main room. This is all pre 86 timeframe. Unbelievably cool guns on display and for shooting there. We bought an IMI UZI model A, an M1928 Thompson and others then.

[Tor Larson]

Topless hippy girls on CU campus in 1970 (first in person bare breast I ever saw, even shocked my dad)
Wyoming age 19 alcohol- quick trip to load up from FOCO
CSU College Days- a week of no class, 3.2 beer, free concerts (Red Hot Chili Peppers- front row), bikinis, parties everywhere. Tradition til asshole students rioted twice. Fools.
A $20 Vail lift ticket in May: only the top lifts open, everyone wearing swim suits, pools of water to ski into at the bases, bad sun burns (no sunscreen invented yet).
No traffic: 20 min from FOCO to Greeley and 40 min from FOCO to Northglenn mall (Furrs for pigging out).
Sid Kings: ran a couple calls there. Normally, I was too young to go in but a medic uniform and a stretcher opens doors. Nice girls there. It closed just before I was legal.
Ricardo Montalban on TV doing Casa Bonita commercials. Only got to go there on special occasions like birthdays or good grades.

[flogger]

Parking on the east end of Stapleton's runway, under the landing planes.

[colorider]

Topless hippy girls on CU campus in 1970 (first in person bare breast I ever saw, even shocked my dad)
Wyoming age 19 alcohol- quick trip to load up from FOCO
CSU College Days- a week of no class, 3.2 beer, free concerts (Red Hot Chili Peppers- front row), bikinis, parties everywhere. Tradition til asshole students rioted twice. Fools.
A $20 Vail lift ticket in May: only the top lifts open, everyone wearing swim suits, pools of water to ski into at the bases, bad sun burns (no sunscreen invented yet).
No traffic: 20 min from FOCO to Greeley and 40 min from FOCO to Northglenn mall (Furrs for pigging out).
Sid Kings: ran a couple calls there. Normally, I was too young to go in but a medic uniform and a stretcher opens doors. Nice girls there. It closed just before I was legal.
Ricardo Montalban on TV doing Casa Bonita commercials. Only got to go there on special occasions like birthdays or good grades.

Drive up Boulder Canyon from town on a warm spring or summer day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mucho young ladies in barely there outfits sunning on the rocks by the river and in the river. It's distracting as a fly fisherman. A great distraction!!!!! No so much hippies anymore, but rather quite great looking trust fund princesses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SAnd]

Parking on the east end of Stapleton's runway, under the landing planes.

The first Space Shuttle that crossed from California to Florida made frequent publicity stops. One was at Stapleton. They parked it in that SW area. I think it stayed over night. I drove down from Greeley to see it. About 1981.

[Ah Pook]

Blinky the clown junk shop.
Found map in the Jeep that didn’t show Mile High stadium or Coors Field.
Sears
The Red Iguana on the Hill in Boulder.
Fourney Museum being downtown Denver.

[flogger]

The first Space Shuttle that crossed from California to Florida made frequent publicity stops. One was at Stapleton. They parked it in that SW area. I think it stayed over night. I drove down from Greeley to see it. About 1981.

Stapleton was cool.

98486

[flogger]

Larimer Street area Pawnshops in 1969-70. My brother and I convinced our Mom into dragging us down there a few times when we first moved to Denver and too young to drive.

Unreal bargains back then but a scary place. Good ole Mom!

[Ah Pook]

Tennyson St. junk shops.
S. Broadway antique shops.
Back when the Pearl St. Mall was relevant.
The Mammoth Auditorium.
Dot's Diner on Pearl St. & 8th.

[arbol]

Arapahoe Road was just fields, when I was a kid. We had many keggers there. :)

[HBARleatherneck]

Shooting at the range in Old Town Arvada. Shooting at the REAL Golden Gun Club at Table Mountain. Watching fireworks from the top of North Table Mountain. Shooting near the old cemetery above Central City. Driving the "oh my god" road to central city and go to the t-shirts and rock shops.


My Dad used to pheasant hunt in bear valley before it was homes.

[StagLefty]

Shooting at the range in Old Town Arvada.

Used to run that range for Scouts every Friday night. Great memories !!!

[Ecoboost28]

The old OG Casa Bonita. Bring back those old cheese enchiladas! All you can eat.

The new Casa Bonita is no bueno. I'll never step foot in there again.

[FoxtArt]

what's wrong with the new one? Never been (to the new, many visits to the old), just curious.

Since I'm in the west, I'll add "Fun Junction"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYKFA4HmbyI

There hasn't been any permenent/legit park on this side of the state since.

Beyond that, there's not a whole lot that can be missed on this side. I have a short list of restaurants (Bob & Jans, Furrs, etc.)

[colorider]

The old OG Casa Bonita. Bring back those old cheese enchiladas! All you can eat.

The new Casa Bonita is no bueno. I'll never step foot in there again.

I worked there when I was 16. Omg the stories I can tell. Best and worst job I’ve ever had.