Icons of youth

[roberth]

What about May D&F? My mom like to shop there.

Remember Colorado National Bank, Rocky Mountain Bankcard (VISA/MC), and PlusSystem? I worked there for 6 years.

[Irving]

I also remember loving Idaho Springs as a kid. Then I got a job at Beau Jo's when I was in high school and found out that it is just a world record holding trailer park where all the kids get drunk and do drugs until they are old enough to drive some where else. By then it is usually too late for them though.

[Bailey Guns]

1960s: I remember watching "Adam-12" and "Emergency", "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" and the "ABC Sunday Night Movie". We stayed late at school to watch the 1st moon landing in 1969. We did "duck and cover" drills in school in case them bastard red commies nuked us. Our 1st color TV was a Curtis Mathis and was about as big as a Mini Cooper. I saw my first baseball game in the Astrodome.

1970s: I routinely brought my old .30-30 to school (shop class) for one repair or another. I got yelled at by the vice principal once for leaving it leaning against my locker while I was talking to someone...he was afraid someone would steal it and told me, "If you're gonna bring that rifle to school you need to pay attention to it." "Parking" on Lookout Mtn in the mid-70s with a young lady named Julie in a 1973 Pinto wagon...a real babe-mobile. I played tennis at the West Hills Racquet Club at 6th Ave and Simms. Played in my first professional tennis tournament in 1976, I think...the United Bank Tennis Classic Qualifications. Made it to the finals in doubles and we got our asses handed to us...but we won about $175 each. That was a shitload of money. John Wayne died in 1979...I was devastated. Enlisted in the Air Force.

I can remember when gas was about .35 cents per gallon. During some of the "gas wars" it occasionally dipped down to .10 cents.

Great thread...thanks for the memories.

[Irving]

Didn't we also used to have the Jolly Rancher factory here?

[Troublco]

I remember Fred Schmid's. I bought a Fisher high end VCR at the warehouse store down on 6th back in '90.

Here's one for you - The Denver. I don't know if there was more than one, but I remember one in Aurora Mall back around '80.

And, more recently, my favorite little gun shop down here, Rob's Guns over on Parker road. Back before I had kids, I damn near kept him in business singlehandedly. I had running permission to come in and go straight behind the counter to check out whatever was interesting. There for a while, he and Dave's shared space till Dave's moved down the road a block. Now both are gone.

[Bailey Guns]

Didn't we also used to have the Jolly Rancher factory here?

Yeah...wasn't that around Ward Rd and 52nd? That hasn't been gone too long...around 2002 or 2003 is when it closed.

[argonstrom]

I remember Fred Schmid's. I bought a Fisher high end VCR at the warehouse store down on 6th back in '90.

Here's one for you - The Denver. I don't know if there was more than one, but I remember one in Aurora Mall back around '80.

And, more recently, my favorite little gun shop down here, Rob's Guns over on Parker road. Back before I had kids, I damn near kept him in business singlehandedly. I had running permission to come in and go straight behind the counter to check out whatever was interesting. There for a while, he and Dave's shared space till Dave's moved down the road a block. Now both are gone.

"Ask your neighbor about Fred Schimd!" Songs & jingles stick with me waaaay too easy...

Rob sold my brother his first & only pistol. Dave took way too much of my money.

[jerrymrc]

Didn't we also used to have the Jolly Rancher factory here?

Yes. And they used to sponsor the #98 Midget back in the day. I remember getting bags of the stuff.

[roberth]

Didn't we also used to have the Jolly Rancher factory here?

Yes, 52nd and Ward I believe,

Jolly Rancher sponsored John Hopperstad in the MRA (Mountain Road Racing). John worked at Boulder Yamaha, I worked there after he left.

Oh I also remember cruising Colfax on my 1986 Kawasaki 1000 Ninja. HAH!

[Ah Pook]

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).

North Denver, off Sheridan. It burned down was rebuilt and was later torn down.

Tulagi's is now next to Whole Foods.

Some more;

Paladin Arms
Norm Resnik(sp) yacking on the radio.
The original Forney's museum