Icons of youth

[theGinsue]

Not that I ever went to a peeler bar....

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

Cripple Creek was a cool mountain town.
Trail Dust Steak House

I miss the old Cripple Creek when the place still had that old west style charm - before the damned casinos came in.

As far as Trail Dust, the wife and I went there a couple of years ago. The one just off of I-25 on the south side of Denver. Are they closed now? I looked them up and the only location that I could find is in Arlington, TX (same exterior and interior decor).

[OneGuy67]

I remember the Brewery from when I went to Metro, and it was still a Brewery.

I used to ditch class and drink there

They had just blocked the roads there at the school went I was there so you didn't have to skirt across active streets and keep from being hit to get to one building to the next when I was there. Allegedly, that was where they got the name of "Roadrunners" for the mascot. There was a small bar downstairs at the student union and I used to go there and have a beer and study or wait for the next class. Can you imagine a bar on campus at any other college?

[OneGuy67]

As far as Trail Dust, the wife and I went there a couple of years ago. The one just off of I-25 on the south side of Denver. Are they closed now? I looked them up and the only location that I could find is in Arlington, TX (same exterior and interior decor).

Yeah, they closed. It is a nightclub now, with live music.

[theGinsue]

The wife's not going to be happy to hear that, that's where we got our meat on (huh?).

Looks like I've now got an excuse to take her to that Texas de Brazil place that someone hear said gave them "meat sweats".

[Graves]

The wife's not going to be happy to hear that, that's where we got our meat on (huh?).

Looks like I've now got an excuse to take her to that Texas de Brazil place that someone hear said gave them "meat sweats".

Highly recommend!! Sign up for their email list, they'll give you a free meal on your birthday which is a savings of $50 or so.

[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.

[Ryan_Th3_K1d]

[LIST][*]Lakeside (yeah, I realize it's still around, but only if you are a gangbanger), how about Lakeside Mall?

haha, I may not be that old but I remember lakeside mall...we know the person that managed it after it was bought from GE. And we got to play paintball in it

[argonstrom]

It "robbed" me of lunch money when we would ditch class (Heritage) and go play foosball.
Right next to Lemkes butcher shop and across the street from the Littleton Independent newspaper.

Remember when the "Melting Pot" restaurant was the Littleton Public Library? Before it was the Littleton PD station (Littleton went to that stupid white and orange paint scheme for their cars- we called them the "Popsicles").

Nice!

I wonder how many times our paths crossed. I went to Heritage for three years before moving.

Hey, The paint scheme saved me more than once,,



From getting a ticket.....

Same here! Ditto on wondering how many times our paths crossed.

Damn you people are OLD!

Tell me about it. I get to go to the Doc tomorrow for my first "wellness check" in years (maybe decades).

The Crestwood..

Seems everyone I knew worked there at some point. I did manage to last a week and a half at the Northwoods Inn...

Remember the one that hit Broadway and Evans?

That was a mess! That was a clock shop, wasn't it?

[steveopia]

And Pinkies "SP?" pool halls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I didn't know Pinkies was a chain!?! I grew up in Tempe, AZ and there was one there. I loved that place. The guy who ran that place had a GREAT eye when it came to hiring. Brings back some good memories.

You guys probably won't know what the hell I'm talking about but here it goes.

- Lucky's grocery store
- SuperX drug store
- Yellow Front stores
- Photon laser tag
- Thrifty's ice cream
- Pagers/Beepers

[jerrymrc]

Even though I did not grow up in Colorado I have spent a better part of my life here.

Organ grinder
shakeys,
Old Elitches
Lakeside and the speedway. Still have a program from the 50th and last year 1988.
Cinderella City
The old Mousetrap
Remember when Colorado national speedway was dirt?
Lowry AFB
Fitzsimmions
Ye Olde Spaghetti factory
Laying down at the end of the runway in the grass at Stapleton and watching the planes take off.