More Casa Bonita Than You Ever Wanted
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006 at 1:05 pmIf you live in Denver or have ever visited, I’m sure you’ve heard the name Casa Bonita. I won’t describe it here because Artifacting has done that much more tongue-in-cheekfully. Here’s a teaser quote to get you to go:
I think it’s easily described as the offspring of a broken down Disneyland, less than stellar Taco Bell, long airport security lines, the Las Vegas Strip, Chunky Cheese, and good liquid acid.
My favorite part of the post is the diver’s blog find.
Listening to: Love Of The Loveless – Eels
April 12th, 2006 at 2:41 pm
dang, thanks for the link. for a second there i thought the whole pst would be dismissed because of my gratuitous cursing sprinkled throughout the post. but this might actually get me some hits! ;) (shit, did i just use an emoticon?)
heh heh. thanks.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:53 pm
My pleasure. It’s a fun post so I wanted to share it with my fellow Denver dwellers. As you did, since you live in Denver, too.
In fact, I think you are the first Denver person who I don’t know that commented on the blog.
There still are firsts!
April 12th, 2006 at 7:13 pm
I am truly vexed. The blog entry cited is not responding. Casa Bonita will always hold a special place in my heart. A young, midwestern farmboy, on a visit to Denver in 8th grade, I visited Casa Bonita. As the fates would have it, I was seated at a table close to the diver’s cliff. As the fates would further have it, the diver had a bit of a wardrobe malfunction with his speedo as he hit the water.
The diver remained in this formerly innocent farmboy’s dreams (some of them sticky) until I made it through high school and into real life, college, and dance clubs and, well, other dens of iniquity. For years, I imagined us riding off into the sunset and playing cowboys.
Let us bow our heads (I said bow, not bob) in gratitude to the latent architect who thought of the cliff at Casa Bonita, and to St. Speedo.
Amen.
April 12th, 2006 at 8:17 pm
YEAH! the link is living again! But the divers aren’t as delicious as those years of dreaming made them in memory. Ah well. Thanks for the memories.
April 12th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
I do what I can to help those in need of memory reconciliation.
April 12th, 2006 at 9:55 pm
So funny you choose today to post this. I just finally saw the South Park episode last night! Ah the mammories of this place… I haven’t been there in like 14 years. But, it is quite the place! We use to go to Elitch’s as a kid, then go there for dinner afterwards.
April 12th, 2006 at 10:01 pm
Shouldn’t you have done that: Casa first, Elitch’s second? The rides would make you throw up the poison.
April 13th, 2006 at 8:01 pm
People need to shut up about Casa Bonita’s food already. Who the hell goes there for the food in the first place? Yeah the food sucks, but its like going to the drive-in and complaining that people are drunk or making out instead of watching the movie. NOT THE POINT.
Anyway, I’ve had about 15 birthday celebrations at Casa Bonita, been drunk there once, and de-casa-virginized a handfull of non-Denver natives. So I can die happy.
P.S. Howard, Matt is contemplating having his 30th birthday celebration there. Not sure if that is a great, or horrendous idea yet.
April 13th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
Horrendous. I would rather go to an Ashlee Simpson concert and chaperone a bunch of junior high school kids.
Or just eat my own fecal material. The taste would be the same.
April 16th, 2006 at 8:48 pm
leslie, i think people complain about the food at casa bonita because it’s a restaurant and they make you buy a meal there. imagine how awesome it would be if they had good food there!
April 16th, 2006 at 8:50 pm
…and how much MORE crowded.