I had lunch yesterday afternoon with my friend Stuart, seen in the photograph above, at the Old Chicago Pizza and Taproom in Lakewood, Colorado, a suburb just to the west of Denver. Lakewood, as regular blog readers know, is not my favorite place in the world. For one thing, it is a suburb, and most of the businesses in town are stand-alone big box stores, restaurants, strip centers, fast food outlets, and pawn shops, among many other assorted concerns located along Colfax Avenue. Although I have to admit, the city tore down a large, mostly vacant mall called Villa Italia, which was replaced in 2004 by the Belmar Shopping District, which has become an attractive downtown for Lakewood. It is still there, but began to decline during the pandemic, and went into foreclosure before being sold to a new owner. Evidently the citizens of Lakewood prefer gritty Colfax as THE place to shop (there are no pawn shops in Belmar, after all). It confirms my opinion that ugly is "in" in suburbia. In any case, Stuart and I each had a leisurely 3-course meal at Old Chicago for the bargain price of $10.95. And no sports talk at all. The regular baseball season is over, our teams are not in the playoffs, and there is nothing left to say about it. Although I did read that Jerry Reinsdorf is seriously thinking of selling the Chicago White Sox. And thank God for that.
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