Posted on 12/19/2001 7:19:53 AM PST by dirtboy
Some of this is personality, some is local politics. The so-called establishment in Georgetown doesn't like Brooks and doesn't want growth or more business traffic - Georgetown is an old Victorian mining town that is getting a lot of money from preservation funds being generated by gambling in other Colorado towns without having to put up with casinos. A few years back, Colorado allowed small-stakes casino gambling in the mining towns of Black Hawk, Central City, Cripple Creek and Georgetown to help the economically-depressed towns to develop. Black Hawk has been completely overwhelmed by casino development and lost its historic character, Central City hasn't done much because Black Hawk is between it and Denver, and Cripple Creek, from what I have heard, has maintained some kind of balance between casino development and historic flair. Georgetown voted to not allow casinos, but still gets restoration money from the common fund - so a lot of town people would rather just get the preservation money and not worry about attracting more tourists and business, something Brooks wants to do and therefore she is a target for the NIMBY types.
However, Brooks has done a good job at making herself a target as well. She neglected to tell voters that she has some serious short-term memory problems because of a car wreck a few years ago and requires an aide to literally remember stuff for her. And, from what I have seen, she tries to abuse her powers as mayor and has pissed off the local cops with her attempts to control the police department. Hopefully, the meeting detailed in this story will end some of the hijinks on both sides...
I don't know how it is in Arkansas, but in New York, Miami, Mexico and Panama. The girl typically comes to your table to "share" a drink. Since drinks in these places cost an arm and a leg, this is good for business. The dumb girls make a blatant hustle, the slightly smarter girls "pretend" to be interested in you, the dumb and/or lonely guys fall for it all of the time. :-)
If you were a she-male, I would say you have a lot of balls for posting on this site. Would "guts" suffice? Good to have you on board. It takes all kinds to make the world go round.
The years of substance abuse prevent me from remembering the name of the bar I preferred in Morrison. Evergreen was getting too gentrified for my taste.
My bad, I missed the context of your question. The Bear is in Evergreen, still open, although from what my wife tells me, it isn't quite as rowdy as it used to be, but it's still pretty wild.
The years of substance abuse prevent me from remembering the name of the bar I preferred in Morrison. Evergreen was getting too gentrified for my taste.
I think that bar has become a restaurant called the Morrison Inn. Morrison is probably more gentrified than Evergreen now - lots of millon-dollar homes built to the south of town up among the red rocks...
I was thinking the same thing about former members of the Clinton administration.
Too bad. My sister used to rent an old place on the backside of 'Red Rocks' amphitheatre, we could sit in the backyard and enjoy the tunes.
I vaguely recall various members of the Dirt Band used to show up at the Bear.
They haven't developed much around Red Rocks - the houses start a couple of miles to the south...
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