Icons of youth

[Marlin]

The one that was east of the Woodlawn shopping center on Littleton Boulevard?
OMG I have not heard that name in years

Give or take, about halfway between LHS and Woodlawn..


Banana splits at the Woolworths in the Woodlawn center..

Grant Jr. HS. prior to it being the district resourse center..

[BPTactical]

Banana splits at the Woolworths in the Woodlawn center..
Grant Jr. HS. prior to it being the district resourse center..

I used to spend more time at the hobby shop.
Goddard Jr High here.

What's a "peeler bar"? Is it a fancy name for a strip joint?

No, but a more refined one...

• • Shakey's Pizza (colfax, west of I-70)

  • Round Table pizza (I realize they are still around in CA, but I remember when they were here, 80th and Wadsworth)
  • I hated Godfather's pizza.
  • Shakey's lunch time buffet's (I remember skipping lunch at HS and going and breaking the bank at those places, ha)'
  • Organ Grinder (man that place was cool)
  • Ye Olde Spaghetti factory
  • Old Elitches (I hate new elitches, bleech)
  • Lakeside (yeah, I realize it's still around, but only if you are a gangbanger), how about Lakeside Mall?
  • Villa Italia Mall,
  • Crusing the 'Fax
  • Cub Foods
  • I remember before C470 was built and all the hullabaloo about building it and the traffic And as someone mentioned when County Line Road was a 2 lane road up and down, up and down.
  • I remember when you could go from Boulder to downtown Denver in about 30 minutes, any day, any time.
  • When you could buy any house you wanted in city of Boulder for about 80 grand. (late 80's for you youngsters who think housing doesn't go down)
  • I remember friends of my parents moving to Texas because they couldn't give their Aurora condo's away for 25 grand. (that they had paid 100,000 for, 1983-86 for your youngsters)
  • Zang's Brewing Company (the sportsbar at I-25 and 23rd) (and Baby's Doe's across the street)
  • How excited everyone was that the aquarium was opening.
  • When people knew why 36 was called the turnpike.
  • the old mousetrap (remember the torpedo truck?)
  • Stapleton and those crazy runways over I-70
  • the Rattlesnake Club (fancy ass restaurant downtown)
  • After the Gold Rush (6th and Sheridan)
  • ohhhhhhh, the tornado that hit at about 6 and Sheridan (1983 or so?)
  • Central City before gambling
  • When only one tunnel was open at Eisenhower (one is Eisenhower tunnel, one is Johnson tunnel, i forget which one opened first)
  • Sitting in huge long traffic jams for HOURS waiting for them to finish I-70 thru Glenwood Canyon
  • When the first stretch of E470 opened (I-25 to parker road)
  • When the Bronco's were good. M & M connection, orange crush, etc.
  • When the Buffalo's were good (now that is a long time ago), that crazy last minute 70 yard TD pass to beat Michigan
  • The Nuggets (what was that coach's name all thru the 1980's?), all they did was run, great fun games. Then when Westphal took over and destroyed the team for 15 years.

  This is a great thread.
  Damn I feel old.
  
  I've got winner
  Remember when there used to be a ski area right up by Genesee?

Yup-pretty much remember each!
Ditto on the old.

how about watching George Bush play baseball with the Bears at mile high?. george bush senior

When they dedicated Chatfield Dam it was either Agnew or Nixon that came out for it. It was a field trip in elementary school.

[Marlin]

Goddard Jr High here..

Went to Goddard for 7th grade. After my transfer to Grant got approved, (4 blocks from home, as opposed to 4/5 miles.) Took me skateboard and gave Berry hill a try.

Not sure how fast I was going, or even how I managed to miss the "automatic braking system", (Rocks and pebbles.) Did manage to leave a 50 yard trail of fiberglass as I stopped near the bottom of the hill though..