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fizzgig

(24,146 posts) Sat Mar 21, 2015, 01:04 AM Mar 2015

casa bonita receives landmark status

no, guys, it's not something the south park boys just came up with. it's a real place that has atrocious food but filled with treasure, cliff divers and sopapillas.

LAKEWOOD — Inside Casa Bonita on Friday morning, things went on more or less as they have for the past 41 years: Cliff divers prepared for their leaps, waitstaff bustled about getting ready for the lunch rush, and the curse over Black Bart's Cave remained in place.

What made this day different was that it was all done under the restaurant's new landmark status.

Earlier Friday, a small group of city leaders, former cliff divers, employees and locals gathered to see the Mexican-style eatery honored as a Lakewood Historical Society Landmark.

It wasn't the food or pop culture status that garnered Casa Bonita a landmark designation, but instead the unique architecture, history and community engagement that made it a great candidate, said Lakewood Historical Society member Ann Moore.

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casa bonita receives landmark status (Original Post) fizzgig Mar 2015 OP

I used to go there as a kid in the early 80s cemaphonic Mar 2015 #1

Oh, yuck. Laffy Kat Mar 2015 #2

There used to be one in Tulsa. NaturalHigh Mar 2015 #3

cemaphonic

(4,138 posts)

1. I used to go there as a kid in the early 80s

Reply to fizzgig (Original post)

Sat Mar 21, 2015, 04:09 AM

Mar 2015

I was amazed to find out that it still existed a few years ago, and am still disappointed that I didn't get a chance to take my own kids there the last time I was in Denver.

Laffy Kat

(16,377 posts)

2. Oh, yuck.

Reply to fizzgig (Original post)

Sat Mar 21, 2015, 12:49 PM

Mar 2015

It's a disgusting place! You have to wait in line FOREVER to get your food--which is vomit-inducing, BTW and way over-priced; then you can look around the place: Black Beard's Cave, the cliff divers, just don't look too hard 'cause the place is filthy. Still, I guess it is OUR disgusting, POS landmark.

NaturalHigh

(12,778 posts)

3. There used to be one in Tulsa.

Reply to fizzgig (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2015, 03:50 AM

Mar 2015

I think there was one somewhere else too, maybe Dallas. Most people just think of the one in Colorado, but it was a bit of a chain at one time.

The food in Tulsa was actually kind of decent when I was a kid, but then I was kind of fat and thought that any all-you-can-eat place was great. I only ate at the Denver place once. Yes, the food was pretty bad, but we were kind of drunk and enjoying the cliff divers.

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