Does anyone have any information about Altones? It was a small record shop in a neighborhood strip mall just south of East Junior High/Patty Jewett Golf Course (can't remember the name of the mall, darn it). I remember it was crowded with albums and had slots behind the counter for multiple copies of the latest Top 40 hits on 45 rpm records. Customers would get a ticket or two for each record they'd buy and could redeem these, once they'd accumulated enough of them, for free records. I fondly recall getting many of the latest Beatles, Monkees, Jackson 5, etc., hits at Altones, but, after a while, it was no longer there. Anybody know anything else about it or its owners?
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July 9 2006, 11:26 AM
the old Denver Warehouse was located just behind it...I think. The only thing in that place now is a liquor store..and a drive up coffee shop (Mountain Mud) sits there.
Don't remember it as I didn't get over that way too often. The ice cream place is still going strong .. just across the street from East MS (junior high).
Side note: Bob Telomosse (of Denver Warehouse) died this past year after a LONG illness.
Thanks for the info about the old Altone's site. Sorry to hear about Bob Telmosse -- he was a fixture on the advertising airwaves for a lot of years and seemed like a nice enough guy.
I'm thinking that Altones was in the shopping strip behind East and south of the golf course. I'm having a mind blank as to the name of it. Its on North Hancock. It now houses the Senior Center, but there once was a Simms Grocery Market there. Drug Store, and a few doctors offices. I'll think of the name in the middle of the night.
Actually, Altone's was in the Golf Acres shopping center. It just came to me the other day and, when you think about it, it makes sense, what with Patty Jewett Golf Course bordering it to the north.
Tooled around that area a week ago -- pretty bleak and quite a contrast to the bright, bustling (though, even then, admittedly secluded) commercial area it was in my youth. The desolation even extends to the area of the long-gone Arlan's department store area on Union up by Constitution. In fact, my entire old neighborhood is looking pretty down at heel (the lush lawns of Jefferson Elementary School have been given over to sparse patches of weeds -- sad). But Patty Jewett Golf Course is still looking good!
They are redoing that shopping area there on Union and Constituion. I'm not sure what all is going to happen to it, but they moved the driveup coffed shop to more in the center because they are going something to the closest area to the street, they have remodeled the strip of stores facing Union and they have the northwest corner of the parking lot all tore up. They are also re-doing Union! Yeah! Its about time. That was getting like a jeep road.
The grass has really taken a beating the last 4 years with us being on water restrictions. This year the restrition was lifted, but they also changed the water rate to a block system, which the first 1000 cu ft is not that bad, but 2nd 1000 is mediocre priced and if you go over that, watch out. If you water your yard properly, on would go into this 3rd block, so most people said the heck with watering. Rent and home prices have soared that one can barely make the home payment, groceries, insurance, basic utilities, let alone make home improvements. I can't believe how expensive "flowers" have gotten. I use to plant tons of them, but now what I use to pay for some little plants is about 4 times what they use to be.
Your old neighborhood has quite a few elderly and they live on such a limited income, let alone are able to do yard maintenance.
Golf Acres is where we went to see the pediatrician, Dr. Landon, I believe, from about 1965 to 1969. He smoked, a lot! At the end of the visit, children would be escorted by their parent to Dr. Landon's office, where he would take us on his knee, give us a smokey hug, and reach into a lower desk drawer FILLED with Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum, and give us a stick. And out the door we went. It set up the next visit for success, and less trauma. He was brilliant!
