Getting Together At Spanky's With The Old DU Bookstore Gang

I got together yesterday evening with some of the old University of Denver Bookstore gang at Spanky's Roadhouse, located just to the west of the University of Denver campus. It was great to see everyone again, and we all had a great time. We reminisced a bit, although everyone agreed that if the university ever decided to get rid of Follett, to whom the store was outsourced, and reestablish a university owned bookstore, and asked us to return, we would run, not walk, to the nearest exits. So much for nostalgia. In any case, in the photograph above, starting at the bottom left, are Owen, the bookstore's former Computer Department Assistant, who now works for DU's Information Technology Department; Wally, the former Operations Manager at the store, now retired; Bill, the former DU Bookstore Operations Coordinator, also now retired; Mark, who works at DU's library, and is an honorary former bookstore employee; Joe, who worked in the bookstore's stockroom, and who is a monotype artist and teaches at the Art Student League of Denver; and Darrel, the former DU Bookstore's Accounts Payable Manager. And great news - volume of the background music at Spanky's is now back to reasonable levels. We could all actually talk to each other. A victory for geezers at last!