I have lived here long enough to...

[crays]

How about The Hungry Farmer and Luby's Cafeteria

And Drumstick Restaurant on west Colfax, with the train running around the ceiling.

[SAnd]

The first big thing I remember on moving to Colorado is a BIG rock.
I moved to Greeley in spring 1976. The first excursion I made into the mountains was a drive up to Estes Park. A few months later I drove up again and at the mouth of the Big Thompson was big rock I remembered seeing at Estes Park. Over a hundred people died during the flood that moved that rock 26 (?) miles down the canyon.
When I moved to Denver in 1982 almost a third of the lots in my neighborhood were empty. They are all full now.
Where I worked for 27 years is empty ground now.
Believe or not but the air is cleaner now that then. Some days you couldn't see downtown Denver coming down 25 from the north when you came over the ridge looking into the bowl Denver sits in. Just a layer of brown with a few buildings sticking up through. I spite of the increase in population at least the brown is gone. I don't miss the Brown Cloud.

And about the torpedoes...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdf_jgNM6_0

[.455_Hunter]

Remember Cinderella City, Villa Italia, and Celebrity Sports Center.

When I see a TV listing for NBC, turn to channel 4.

Know what the Mouse Trap was.

I went to Celebrity Sports Center once with my Cub Scout Den in deep winter. Being somewhat of a water shy kid, it was the first big tube slide I went on. I remember a large puddle on one of the ramp landings from the leaking tube that had ice crystals growing in it. That was cold on my 9 or 10 year old bare feet. It closed pretty soon afterwards.

I did a HS marching band parade where we formed in the Cinderella City parking lot, just in front of what is now a city administration building. I think it was already on its last legs as a mall.

I still think Ch 4 is NBC, Ch 7 is CBS and Ch. 9 is ABC. I just had my son looking for MNF on Ch 9 last week.

Wasn't there an observation tower in the middle of the Mouse Trap?

Anyway, a lot of you folks are significantly older than me based your observations...

[lpgasman]

Bus service station on Santa fe and Alameda, centennial horse track federal at Bellevue, organ grinder pizza Alameda and zuni, standing on the platform under the old tower at bandimere. Those were the days.

[eddiememphis]

Blinky The Clown...

I was on Blinky's Fun Club when I was six. I got to sit next to the cake that had the candle that would lower when someone tried to blow it out.

And Drumstick Restaurant on west Colfax, with the train running around the ceiling.

There was another one on Evans, east of I-25.

Wasn't there an observation tower in the middle of the Mouse Trap?

Yes, and it looked like the mousetrap game cage.

[Doc45]

Great pic! Had a number of both my sons birthday parties at Celebrity. Went to a number of Nuggets games and a Rolling Stones concert at McNichols Arena. Too many other places now gone to remember and I’ve only been here 40 years lol

[eddiememphis]

What about the rainbow music hall?

[flogger]

Anyone remember a big glass vertical parking garage on the west side of Colorado Blvd around I-25?

Celebrity Sports Center had the three large slot car tracks downstairs, always wondered what happened to them. I think a Home Depot is there now.

Stock car and demolition derby nights at Englewood speedway.

[.455_Hunter]

I watched Blinky every morning.

[Great-Kazoo]

What about the rainbow music hall?

The last concert at the rainbow was........Warren Zevon. Who did the concert w/out a drummer. IIRC timothy B schmidt, Warren and waddy made up the band. He came out for a few encores. One of them he said. OK i want everyone to sing along with a song you're all familiar with (or something along those lines) S.O.B, bust out What new Pussycat!. F^&*in amazing.


Saw Zevon numerous times, mostly up in boulder, 1x in ft fun.