I have lived here long enough to...

[Alpha2]

I haven?t been here all that long but I do remember when I could get from Thornton to Centennial straight down I-25 in about 25 minutes.

When I first moved here, I could drive from Ft. Collins to North Colorado Springs for a job, in two hours. If I can make it from Ft. Fun to North Denver area in two hours, I consider it a "good" day.

[MED]

I just moved my son into an apartment at Academy and Woodman road. I remember when that was all farm land and now there is an overpass there and packed solid with stuff. I grew up in Monument, and that place is unrecognizable now.

[BPTactical]

That pic of the tower in the mousetrap was taken before the ‘Trap was reworked in the early 70’s.
It was built to its current configuration in 1987.
The tower was only used for about 3 years, media traffic helicopters made it obsolete almost overnight. It was known as Tower One. There was a Tower 2 and it was at the I25/6th Avenue interchange. It was never used to the best of my knowledge because it had just been completed when the Mousetrap tower went out of service.
There had been plans for Tower 3 at the I70/Quebec interchange but those plans were scrapped. Interesting tidbit- I70 & Quebec was listed as the most accident prone intersection in the US for about 8 years in a row- it remains that way until DIA was put into service.

I spent countless hours at those towers when I drove a tow truck, waiting for wrecks to happen then it was balls to the wall.
I could go for hours on Lakeside Speedway- I worked that track for about 7 years when I drove a tow truck. Awesome way to spend a Sunday night.
Everybody hated the Carelli’s.

Anybody remember the Smaldones? My brother in law dated one of the daughters.
Old Little Italy around 20th Street/Pecos/34th St confluence.
Palgiacchis, Subway, Patsy’s, Carbones.
Great Italian food!
I miss it.

[Doc45]

Don't forget Gaetano's lol, still has bullet marks on the walls, definitely not as good as it used to be. Chauncey was quite the character.

[buffalobo]

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.

Warren Zevon @ Tulagi's.

If you're unarmed, you are a victim.

[buffalobo]

That pic of the tower in the mousetrap was taken before the ?Trap was reworked in the early 70?s.
It was built to its current configuration in 1987.
The tower was only used for about 3 years, media traffic helicopters made it obsolete almost overnight. It was known as Tower One. There was a Tower 2 and it was at the I25/6th Avenue interchange. It was never used to the best of my knowledge because it had just been completed when the Mousetrap tower went out of service.
There had been plans for Tower 3 at the I70/Quebec interchange but those plans were scrapped. Interesting tidbit- I70 & Quebec was listed as the most accident prone intersection in the US for about 8 years in a row- it remains that way until DIA was put into service.

I spent countless hours at those towers when I drove a tow truck, waiting for wrecks to happen then it was balls to the wall.
I could go for hours on Lakeside Speedway- I worked that track for about 7 years when I drove a tow truck. Awesome way to spend a Sunday night.
Everybody hated the Carelli?s.

Anybody remember the Smaldones? My brother in law dated one of the daughters.
Old Little Italy around 20th Street/Pecos/34th St confluence.
Palgiacchis, Subway, Patsy?s, Carbones.
Great Italian food!
I miss it.

Rick the dick.

If you're unarmed, you are a victim.

[BPTactical]

Rick the dick.

If you're unarmed, you are a victim.

Ricky the High Plains Drifter?..





The first pic is of his ASA car, I was the left front wheel man in his pits for 4 races.
The last pic is his Malloy chassied 29 Modified Coupe. He took me for a few laps in it one afternoon, I was half sitting on his shoulders and my head was cranked under the wing. He said he only hit about 1/2 throttle but damn, that lil coupe was quick!
The other pic was taken after the car was sold, the guy who bought it stuffed it up at Cheyenne.

I remember working CNS when it was a dirt(mud) track.
I hated it- the damn mud didn?t come off until a week later and it took the wiring with it.

[buffalobo]

Yeah, was a fan until '92 Winston West race in Phoenix. He behaved badly with a track worker and refused to apologize when called on it.

If you're unarmed, you are a victim.

[BPTactical]

Yeah, was a fan until '92 Winston West race in Phoenix. He behaved badly with a track worker and refused to apologize when called on it.

If you're unarmed, you are a victim.

Broken ribs can make one less than cheerful iirc.

Anyways, Lakeside was good racing.

[Tor Larson]

The 94th Aero Squadron. Just on the south edge of Stapleton Runway. A French chateau with WW1 aircraft, machine gun emplacements, and headphones at the table to listen to control tower. Great steaks and French Onion soup.

Cruising downtown College Ave in FOCO Sat nites (hundreds of cars going back and forth in a five block area) since there was nothing else to do.

Sid Kings Crazy Horse on Colfax- ran a few calls there when I drove a Cadillac ambulance for Haley Paramedic.

Estes Park Highland Festival was $5 for the whole weekend and you could join the 2am parade of serious drunken Scottish/Canadian pipers as they marched down main street. Local law enforcement was cool about it too. Just a few hundred people attended way back and you could pass out/sleep on the tennis courts and do it all again the next day.

Northglenn Mall with fountains, Furrs, Sears, Pennys and rival North Valley mall with Wyatts and Monkey Wards.