Icons of youth

[JohnTRourke]

• 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.

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Remember when there used to be a ski area right up by Genesee?

[roberth]

I used to go to Zang's after work. I worked in the old Rockmont Envelope building north of there for an oil investment firm named Petro Lewis.

The Eisenhower tunnel was the first one. I remember a news story where some guy drove through it just before opening so he could say he was the first one and he got $500 on a bet too. IIRC he got in trouble for that.

[Marlin]

ohhhhhhh, the tornado that hit at about 6 and Sheridan (1983 or so?)

The one that hit Thornton in '81.. A buddy and I were out chasing parts for his car. Drove complete around the thing and didn't know it.

[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

[Byte Stryke]

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

yeah, we were at my grandparents home the day the tornado came down sheridan. they were right next to the lake. it touched down on Sloans lake and spit water around, as i recall.

how about when the cost of living here wasnt so bad? before we were "blessed" with all the out of staters moving here, libbing up the place and driving up land, home costs and taxes. thanks

I remember the Tornado in Northglenn in (81?)

[StagLefty]

I remember the Tornado in Northglenn in (81?)

hit the small strip mall on Washington where the old AA meetings were held.

[ghettodub]

Remember the one that hit Broadway and Evans?

[OneGuy67]

What about all the bars and nightclubs that were at the old Tivoli brewery at Auraria before the school took it over. There was a movie theater, a pretty kickin' nightclub and that bar that you would get baskets of peanuts and eat peanuts, drink beer and watch football at.

"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." ~ Doug Moe

[ghettodub]

What about all the bars and nightclubs that were at the old Tivoli brewery at Auraria before the school took it over. There was a movie theater, a pretty kickin' nightclub and that bar that you would get baskets of peanuts and eat peanuts, drink beer and watch football at.

"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." ~ Doug Moe

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

I used to ditch class and drink there

[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?