I remember when

Kenosha Auctions used to be Reggies. Decent Italian food and live jazz.

The Jazz was always pretty good.
Hated to see a fire cost us a very neat place.

I remember:

When we had a mountain top where "new" Safeway is and meadow where KS is, with lots of elk. Don't see the elk much anymore.

Driving home at 7:00 pm and I was practically the only person on the road once I got past King's Valley.

When that white atrocity on the top of Crow Hill wasn't there.

When the Burland ballfields were a non-nuisance for the surrounding homeowners.

When elk were more prevalent in Burland.

All the different animals, including birds, that passed our place during the Hi Meadow fire.

The Red Rooster, where I could get corned beef hash on the weekends. Yum, yum!

I loved Red Rooster too, and agree on the bubble mess.

I had forgot about the Red Rooster, writing on the roof, right?

What was the name of the restaurant across from the old Safeway, Hill dale or something like that?

Red Rooster, wasn't that an old rail car? I remember the Highlander across from the old Safeway. There was a donut shop near where the old Conifer hardware was, they had snow totals for each month posted on the wall. One Bailey memory... around 1992 it was a long distance call to Denver and I left my computer connected 24/7 for entire week, it was a pretty scary long distance bill.

Didn't the Red Rooster then briefly become a 2 or 3 lane bowling alley?

The Red Rooster was razed (built around an old rail car, I think) and then the bowling alley was built (the Pine Junction Family Entertainment Center). It had five or six lanes. It was a mom-and-pop operation. Unfortunately, it couldn't survive a season of wildfires when business dropped off dramatically as a result. The building is still there, but is now a fitness center and pub.

The last time we ate at Red Rooster the guy who waited on us was smoking a cigarette while taking our order. We never went back.

Reggies, was the place that burned where Kenosha Auctions is now. The Highlander went through several name and menu changes while we lived up here. There was also Sky Village? where the gas station and Mexican restaurant is now on Doubleheader.

pinedust wrote: One Bailey memory... around 1992 it was a long distance call to Denver and I left my computer connected 24/7 for entire week, it was a pretty scary long distance bill.

Yup.. long distance to Denver from the 838 exchange. We signed up with a "switching company" in Lakewood (it wasn't long distance to call from 838 to an exchange in Western Lakewood) so we had to dial the switching company first, then we got a tone and had to punch in our access number and then got another dial tone and then we dialed the Denver number and finally punched in the Internet account password number). That was really tough when I first started Pinecam because the automatic phone dialers on the modems back then only had digits and pauses, so I'd have my modem dial in to my Internet service with something like 575-3343(switching number)***(my customer code)2745****(the Denver number I wanted)832-8898*****(my Internet access pasword)4657 (each asterisk was a 1 second pause). If everything was timed right, the picture was uploaded.

Our phone was on a partyline.
285 was two lane and only one stoplight at Safeway and another at Pine Jct.
There was a banking company half-way down Crow Hill.
The housing development at Will-O-The-Wisp did not exist.
The RTD parking lot at Green Valley was a rock quarry.
Beth's Market did not exist.
Loaf-N-Jug and CR47A did not exist.
Horn Cemetery was named Elkhorn Cemetery.
Taxes were much lower.
The police were not such a para-military organization.