Denver in the 1960s and 1970s (Memory Lane) (Aurora, Lakewood: businesses, buildings)

[jude fawley]

Originally Posted by Dshark

Morrison Road ends at Alameda west of Federal...but at Sheridan & Morrison Road was Hart's Corner.

I used to go to Hart's Corner when I'd just turned 21. It was kind of a cowboy place--all country music on the jukebox--but it was an older crowd and they were pretty mellow. I used to avoid Ollie's Roundup, just across the road, because it seemed like the kind of place where you'd get in fights. As I remember it, Hart's seemed to have only one size of glass, one of those "schooner" goblet things, I guess they were 12 oz., and that's what the mixed drinks came in as well as the beer. They were cheap, that's why we frequented the place. I don't know if it's still in business.

[reed303]

Originally Posted by jude fawley

I used to go to Hart's Corner when I'd just turned 21. It was kind of a cowboy place--all country music on the jukebox--but it was an older crowd and they were pretty mellow. I used to avoid Ollie's Roundup, just across the road, because it seemed like the kind of place where you'd get in fights. As I remember it, Hart's seemed to have only one size of glass, one of those "schooner" goblet things, I guess they were 12 oz., and that's what the mixed drinks came in as well as the beer. They were cheap, that's why we frequented the place. I don't know if it's still in business.

Looks like it closed sometime before Oct 2014

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6968...7i13312!8i6656

Had a different sign in 2007

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6968...!7i3328!8i1664

[suzco]

Originally Posted by jude fawley

I used to go to Hart's Corner when I'd just turned 21. It was kind of a cowboy place--all country music on the jukebox--but it was an older crowd and they were pretty mellow. . . I don't know if it's still in business.

Originally Posted by reed303

Looks like it closed sometime before Oct 2014. . .

Back in March, Westword featured this article:
Hart's Corner Could Soon Be Back in Business as a Mexican Restaurant

The article includes a complete, and quite interesting, history of the location.

[jude fawley]

Originally Posted by suzco

Back in March, Westword featured this article:
Hart's Corner Could Soon Be Back in Business as a Mexican Restaurant

The article includes a complete, and quite interesting, history of the location.

That's an interesting article. I didn't know that Hart's corner got to be the center of drug activity by 2010. That's the problem I have with a lot of old stomping grounds: when I revisit them, in my mind I still see them like they were 40-50 years ago without realizing that they might have changed a lot.

[jude fawley]

I've seen from old posts that a number of folks here grew up in Bear Valley. I remember hanging out in Bear Creek Park between Hampden and Ft. Logan. One side of the creek was maintained with mowed bluegrass, baseball diamonds and picnic tables. I seem to remember that every summer the City of Denver had a mobile stage they'd take around town to put on live entertainment and it usually made an appearance at Bear Creek Park. The other side of the park, they pretty much let it grow wild. It had dirt paths through it and some of them went up and down some pretty steep hills, so of course as kids we had to challenge each other to ride our bikes down the steepest hills. We also used to go innertubing down the creek there. When I reached junior high age we used to do all kinds of prohibited things over there because people had built camouflage-like shelters with loose brush among all the wild bushes and grass so no one (like the cops) could see what was going on. Now they seem to keep the brush cut back a bit more and they have asphalt walking paths.

I remember there was flooding in I think 1969 and the creek rose up to something like 5 or 6 times its normal size and it really cut a slice through the park. It was almost spilling into the parking lot at the entrance of the park. I think it's what got the State to build the dam just outside Morrison. I used to ride my bike to Morrison/Red Rocks all the time; it was a two-lane road that followed the creek and it felt really rural--nothing like the highway that Morrison Road's turned into now, and there was no Bear Creek Lake Park (because there was no Bear Creek Lake).

[Laura Carlisle]

Anyone remember the Ice Cream Parlor at 84th and maybe Pecos in the King Soopers shopping strip. Maybe 1975 or 1976. They had horns and whistles and wore straw hats they had food to but huge ice cream sundaes of all kinds. They all had names too. They closed down in 78 or 79 maybe. There was nothi g in the field actoos Pecos from them, there were Condos behing them and. Apartments with a huge park??? My friend and I used to meet there all the time...anyone??

[34redrage]

Originally Posted by Laura Carlisle

Anyone remember the Ice Cream Parlor at 84th and maybe Pecos in the King Soopers shopping strip. Maybe 1975 or 1976. They had horns and whistles and wore straw hats they had food to but huge ice cream sundaes of all kinds. They all had names too. They closed down in 78 or 79 maybe. There was nothi g in the field actoos Pecos from them, there were Condos behing them and. Apartments with a huge park??? My friend and I used to meet there all the time...anyone??

i cannot remember the name of this place for anything, but i spent many friday and sat nights there as a 15,16 year old playing fooseball and pinball games there with all my jr high and sr high frinds. please someone tell me the name of this place before i bang my head against the wall

[Bill Garcia]

Hey Jude, the portable stage you mentioned was called the show wagon, our parents used to take us to see it when it was in Barnum Park in the summer. It was all amateur talent in the shows.

Also I went past Harts Corner just yesterday and it's now open as a Mexican restaurant.

[jude fawley]

Originally Posted by Bill Garcia

Hey Jude, the portable stage you mentioned was called the show wagon, our parents used to take us to see it when it was in Barnum Park in the summer. It was all amateur talent in the shows.

That's right, I forgot about it being amateur talent. I remember a couple of bands playing and not much else, but we enjoyed it at the time.

[34redrage]

Originally Posted by Laura Carlisle

Anyone remember the Ice Cream Parlor at 84th and maybe Pecos in the King Soopers shopping strip. Maybe 1975 or 1976. They had horns and whistles and wore straw hats they had food to but huge ice cream sundaes of all kinds. They all had names too. They closed down in 78 or 79 maybe. There was nothi g in the field actoos Pecos from them, there were Condos behing them and. Apartments with a huge park??? My friend and I used to meet there all the time...anyone??

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