Macon Cowles' claim that both Continental and United airlines abuse their passengers.Ĭhicago family sued United Airlines, claiming that the body of their 93 year old grandmother was removed from the flight and left in Denver as "excess baggage" Thomas More Parish's installation of a bar right next to the altar John's Cathedral "F- Thee!"īest Place to Find a Cop When You D don’t Need One –ĭenny's, 900 W Alameda Village Inn, 222 Columbine Village Inn, 4850 Federalīest Place to Find a Cop When You D don’t Need One, or Best Speed Trap –īest County Court Judge For the Prosecution –īest County Court Judge for the Defense – They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone" (graffiti on 20th and Grant) "Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. Graffiti on Boulder mall: "We want everything - now" More women than ever before are serving on the Colorado legislature Although the menu and bar selections have expanded, Benny’s still specializes in a sense-singeing green chile that has defined this uniquely Colorado creation for twoīest News for Women (or Worst News for Anti-Terrorist Squads) –Ĭolorado Springs Denver Aurora area has 1-1 female male ratio
In the twenty years since that first spot opened, Benny has expanded Benny’s numerous times, finally moving to the location at 301 East Seventh Avenue where Benny’s Restaurant & Tequila Bar still packs them in today. That year, Benny Armas, a veteran of numerous kitchens around town, finally opened the first place he could call his own: Benny’s Cantina.
Other winners, such as the Rattlesnake Club, are long gone, like most memories of those very depressed days.īut other 1987 winners are better than ever. In 1987, Westword published its fourth Best of Denver issue, a celebration of the city that saluted everything from the Best Place to Park Downtown (with the office-building vacancy rate at 30 percent, one lot had slashed its prices to ten cents a day!) to the Best Place to People-Watch (the Paramount Cafe, which offered a good view of the few folks who frequented the five-year-old 16th Street Mall) to the Best After-Hours Club (the just-opened Paris on the Platte).