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- Bryan Ferry - yum.
In the 1980's a group of us used to Cruz Colfax on Friday night. The fun was blaring the radio or current mix-tape and laughing with friends. (and checking out the dudes)
We would fight a bit over the choice in music. It was Chaka kahn, Prince, The Motels, or whatever 80's or 70's band we were into. Avalon was not cruzzer music.
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"Hot chicks" refers to Martha Davis. I have no idea what anyone here looks like.
Excellent! In Madison to boot.
My most prized ticket stub is "Siouxsie and the Banshees" circa 198_(?) Rainbow Music hall. The Tinderbox tour.
Rainbow Music hall is now a Walgreens.
Martha was hot back then.
I passed on seeing U2 at that same small venue a year or so earlier. What a dope. I knew them only from MTV.
You used to Cruz?
Come on you have to explain that one. Seriously.
I missed U2, too. At Red Rocks. That famous show!
What is it about the 80's and horizontal blinds?
What is it about the 80's and horizontal blinds?
I don't recall seeing vertical blinds until moving to San Diego in 1998.
Playboy magazine once called Colfax "the longest, wickedest street in America".
"Headliners" now looks like a club called "The Double U" link. It was brand new when I saw The Motels. That gray older building has always been there. It was once funeral parlor. It was called "The Church Key" when I was in HS/college. They had a backdoor that was easy to sneak into if you were under age (18 then).
121 W Main Street. Every been there? It's called "The Frequency."
Every = ever. **
AprilApple said...121 W Main Street. Every been there? It's called "The Frequency."
Can't say as I have. What did it used to be called?
I knew some bars/clubs on S. Broadway in Denver back in the 80's - 90's.
Colfax was rough then. I do remember seeing some band in a converted old theater on Colfax.
No idea.
I was with my nephew a few years ago, wondering the streets of downtown Madison, and we walked by and he stopped me and said "Can we go in, I know the band."
Jet Edison. Turns out he knew the band. I needed ear-plugs.
Troop - oh yeah. Cruz. I was one of the 7.
There was a cool club in LoDo in the 1990's where I saw the original Foo Fighters. Pretty sure I came to see Mike Watt and Grohl's band opened.
Jet Edison - Undercover Lover
Rock Island?
Jet Edison. Turns out he knew the band. I needed ear-plugs.
The loudest band I ever saw was Hüsker Dü. My ears are still ringing.
Oh that's cool. I thought it meant the you were visiting prostitutes and beating your wife. And hanging out with Lee Harvey Oswald. Wait. He was dead. Maybe you were hanging with Hinckley?
Colfax is Loooooong. I cruzzed westish colfax. East Colfax is scary.
Chickl - Herman's hideaway? or something?
@April: I found my ticket. It was place called The Mercury. Here's a review of the show I found in Westword.
The review mentions the Ogden Theater which I think was on Colfax or Broadway?
The Mercury. - huh - rings a tiny bell. ??
The Ogden is on Colfax.
A small band/small venue turned big band/big venue. Always exciting to see bands like that in their infancy.
I get The Ogden and The Fillmore confused. Both on East Colfax. I cannot find my "Creatures" ticket stub. Dang it. Went to The Cocteau Twins and The Creatures - Ogden or Fillmore.
We're back to Colfax. The nexus of the Universe.
You can end your trip high on donuts.
Voodoo
The Mercury. - huh - rings a tiny bell. ??
The Mercury Cafe. It abutted a freeway on-ramp or some such which you walked under to get to the front door. A couple years later, they tore out the road. The old buildings were transformed -- kind of like how the old buildings along the San Francisco Embarcadero came alive after they tore out the freeway.
ah yes. The Mercury must have been in LoDo (as you said). (why don't I remember it?) I think I do, I don't recall ever going there. Is it still around?
All the old creepy viaducts were removed and now LoDo is, as you say, transformed and revitalized. (and it is!)
In the early 1990's I used to work on Wynkoop street near an old creepy viaduct. It was a day job *whew*.
A fun thing to do in Denver before you're dead is begin your walk in Highlands, walk across the bridge over I-25, (by the statue of condoms) meander up and over the newly built Denver boat-like revitalizations, thru Union Station (under) and over to the Baseball Stadium for a game. Then back for trendy "Little Man" Ice Cream near the old Mortuary that is now a place for eats. Used to be Olinger Mortuary, now it's called "Linger." How hipsterdoofus is that?
I remember The Wynkoop Pub. Back when Hickenlooper owned it. Is it still there?
And Confluence Park. Is it still there? (Where Cherry Creek and The Platte merge).
Confluence Park is there, and improved. Yes - The Wynkoop is still there.
The Motels were awesome. Great song.
Trooper York said...
Maybe you were hanging with Hinckley?
In 1978, after graduating HS, a friend and I drove to Denver for fun and adventure. We ended up staying at my friends's relative's house--somewhere near Golden. I remember we could see an old hunting lodge allegedly frequented by Clark Gable back when it was the middle of nowhere. Anyways, a couple years later after Reagan was shot, my friend told me: "remember where we stayed? Hinckley was living just down the street with his parents then."
I just remembered that I bought a skinny silk black tie to wear with my white shirt to that Motels show. I was dressing for Martha.
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