This is an interesting bit of Americana, but I still don't like Miller's "King of the Road."
I loved "King of the Road," and had the pleasure of many trips to the Mayflower in 1965-70. Buddies of mine, and our girls would drive up from Ft. Collins on Friday or Saturday and have dinner, cruise around Cheyenne and come back to the Mayflower to dance until closing. I got introduced to Tongue in the restaurant and other delights on the dance floor. It was the cowboy way.
When I lived in Denver, one year about 10 of us went up to Cheyenne Frontier Days. That evening we hit the Mayflower.
They used to close the street in front of the hotel off. What a great time! I still have a cap I got off a farmer guy from Nebraska who I danced with.
Buy a beer and go out in the street and blend with cowboys, bikers, farmers and working girls.
The place was a mess by 11:00 but everyone still had fun!
Since we all had had too much fun, we decided not to risk the 2 hour drive down 25 back to Denver and crashed in some park that has a locomotive in it. I forget the name.
What a shame the Mayflower is no longer there.