Quote Originally Posted by jerrymrc View Post
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.
I didn't grow up here, either, although I had family here from when I was about 8 and visited quite a bit. Went to Lowry for tech school, then moved here in '88. I remember a lot of these things, too. I worked as a mechanic for a little while at Stapleton, for Continental. My dad loved Shakey's, I remember going to them when I was little, although not here. I moved every year or two till I moved here. I remember-

Stapleton Airport tunnels on I-70
C-470 when it ended at Wadsworth
the big fight over expanding Stapleton or building DIA
the big fight over E-470
Cinderella City, Villa Italia, the old Southglenn mall, the old Buckingham mall when it actually had some stores in it!
The Broker on Havana in Aurora
Dave Cook's
Gart Bros. when the Sports Castle was worth a damn (I got a screaming deal on a Savage .300 Win Mag there, and almost got a Whitworth Mk X .375 H&H for $400, new! Wish I had...)
The airman's club on Lowry. Jeez, that sucked!
Rocky Mountain Arsenal, when it was
Rocky flats, I had friends that worked there
when Smoky Hill Road had a school, the water tanks and ONE subdivision, period.
When there was nothing up Tower road near 92nd except the racetrack and the dump.
there was nothing past Buckley on 6th but farms.

Oh, BP, Northwoods is still around. Just in a new location, down off Santa Fe south of 470. Still got peanut shells on the floor.