La Fayette, IL
Spent summers in Estes after parents divorced in 72. Dad was a deputy sherriff and would drop me downtown during the day with 5 dollars for lunch and entertainment. Invariably 2$ would go for a slice and a coke at Bob an Tony's pizza(still there today), the rest was spent in the 8 different arcades in this epic tourist town, (you have to go thru estes in order to get to rocky moumtain national park). I got very good at foosball and pinball, and won my first tourney on a flip a card at Sulivans snack shop and pool hall. Great place to grow up...they had old west re-enactments in the middle of town everyday at 3pm,(until this poor woman got shot in the face, oops), I think the city settled lawsuit for 2 million. Great memories, and EM pinball brings me closer to those treasured memories.
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22 days ago
I made it out to Estes Park about 10 years ago for a family reunion and was blown away......so beautiful.
Every day we walked and hiked and it made me want to live there, The Stanley Hotel was really cool too.
You are right, EM's are the best (I love wedgeheads) and Flip A Card is such a great game, go get one!
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Chud
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Awesome. I grew up 'down the road' on Colo Springs. We had Celebrity down there. About a million bowling lanes. I fell in love with Pinbot. Estes is where we would go in the spring - mom loved the flowers.
Now...Bob & Tony is on the lost for a drop in!