I got together with my friends Mark (on the left in the photo) and Wally (on the right) last night at Spanky's, an "urban roadhouse" located just to the west of the University of Denver campus. Wally, as regular blog readers know, was the Operations Manager at the University of Denver Bookstore before it was outsourced to Follett Higher Education Group, and Mark works at DU's Anderson Academic Commons (i.e. the library). Wally, who says he hates to travel, has been traveling a lot lately - to Holland, Michigan to visit his brother and sister, to Washington D.C. for the annual Churchill Society conference, and will soon be heading to Montana to visit his friend and fellow woodworker up at his ranch.
Spanky's, by the way, was originally opened by Denver real estate developer David French, who I talked to once while taking real estate classes at the University of Denver, working on a class project concerning possible uses for Denver's old convention center. He sold Spanky's many years ago, but it has remained a fixture in the DU area to this day, with one of the more reasonably priced happy hours ($4.99 burgers and $3.75 beers). Not that I am a cheapskate or anything, but as far as I am concerned, this is my first choice for get-togethers. Of course, it's the ambiance, not the price, that wins me over. Yeah. Right.
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