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The Owl Cigar Store [And maybe, a bakery...]

• 71dine • Episode 2

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We're taking you on an evocative journey into Canyon City, the playground of my youth. A place where Apple Blossom Festivals, Owl Cigar Shops, and Christmas tree farms share the neighborhood with a maximum security prison. We've got a delightful conversation lined up with a potential future bakery owner who's conjuring up innovative delicacies like cheesecake egg rolls and has an abundance of ideas for using fresh, local fruit. 

We've got tales to tell from our adventures in Pueblo and Canyon City that will have you on the edge of your seat. Discover with us the clandestine tunnels of the prohibition era, step into the Alcagar store that's a standing testament to family tradition since 1943, and learn about the transformation of cigar shops post indoor smoking bans. Understand the intriguing demographic mix of The Villages retirement community, and join us as we recollect a memorable travel experience marked by a campfire-less period due to the wildfires in Colorado Springs. 

We don't stop there - we've got more to share about the culture, history, and attractions of Canyon City. Hear about the pioneering Denardo family's apple farms, the local love for the Taco Blanco, and the gripping past of the Territorial Prison. The Apple Blossom Festival, the Waffle Wagon, and the upcoming Best of the West Wing Fest - we've got it all covered. So tune in, enjoy the ride, and share in the captivating stories that have been the backdrop of our journey. We remain, as ever, grateful for your support and encouragement.

Speaker 1:

You're listening to Joe and the 7 One Dine podcast.

Speaker 2:

Yes, this is Joe and, yes, this is the 7 One Dine podcast. I am so excited you are here. Thank you for being here, as we have a very unique and entertaining show for you. Briefly, succinctly, how this show came about? Easy I texted Jay, asked if he wanted to go to Canyon City, visit one of my favorite places, the Owl Cigar Shop. And he said of course, jay has been my best friend for going on 30 years now and he grew up in Canyon City. Interesting to note, jay and I have never been to Canyon City together prior to this episode, so I wanted him to kind of be my impromptu tour guide and share with me some of the behind the scenes stuff that most people don't know about Canyon City. So, without further ado, sit back, listen and enjoy.

Speaker 3:

My history with Canyon City started when I was about three years old. We moved here from Washington and I lived here until I was 12, so I moved to primary school here in my hometown and my favorite thing about it it's literally my favorite city in the United States. Part of that is because even all these years later, more than 50 years later, it still maintains its small town aesthetic. Oh, without a doubt.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

And I mean the names on some of the business parts have changed. Some have gone out of business and some have come into business, but you can still count on it. For that small town and growing up here it wasn't strange, but the main industry in Canyon City and Fremont County is Christmas. There's 11 of them and that never really worried us because it was our normal and there were escapes and there were things like that, but they always rounded them up pretty quickly. The biggest event of the year was in.

Speaker 3:

May the Apple Blossom Festival, and so it's famous for its apples and the one-way Raleigh Cross Abbey, where actual mumps make actual wine and then sell it. That's always been a popular destination.

Speaker 2:

It seems odd, though, that people would escape from the prison. Not that, obviously, prisoners escape, but Canyon City seems like a town you have to want to be going Like once you get out of the prison. Now what?

Speaker 3:

Well, and that's one thing I've learned about prisoners A lot of them don't really have well thought out plans. Right, they will take opportunities when they come out, but they don't have it all diagrammed. It's like you remember years ago with the Texas 7. They escaped from prison in Texas and they came here.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and they were at that hotel by the Hungry Farmer, yeah.

Speaker 3:

And I'm like you were like 75 miles from Mexico. Why did you come to Colorado? Yeah, so most of them died, but they were bad men. Yeah, but if you go here to how are you guys?

Speaker 2:

We're well, how are you?

Speaker 4:

Good, who gets the one with A I?

Speaker 2:

don't know.

Speaker 4:

All right, what did you take? Anything else?

Speaker 3:

No, no, no, no no.

Speaker 2:

No, no, great thanks.

Speaker 3:

So the prison that we passed the older one when I was a kid, that was the maximum security prison. That's where the very worst prison was in Colorado and we lived the prison's on 2nd Street. We lived on 5th Street, so 3 blocks away, but we never really worried about it. It was never a thing. We were more afraid of tornadoes than we were of inmates. The air raid siren would go off and you'd just lock your doors and windows. Go back to watching cartoons.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you probably could sit in your basement For both.

Speaker 3:

If you had a basement. I don't recall ever having a basement. We did live in a pre-war house that had a basement, but it wasn't finished. But we went down there. There was some extra plywood and stuff and so we built a passable replica of the Starship and the Gros.

Speaker 2:

As anybody would. Yeah, I mean, why not Now? That was just Jay and I chopping it up as we were waiting for our meals to arrive. I will say this next segment is when our meal was coming to a close. Our table was visited by the owner's niece and she well, she wants to start a bakery and we both think she should. Well, I want to hear about her cheesecake. Yeah, she had us. She kind of had us an egg roll. You kind of worked, thank you.

Speaker 3:

Oh, we got a sign right there that says too busy for bullshit, so you want to open the bakery.

Speaker 4:

I'm thinking, yeah, yeah, well, there's a couple of my regular customers here and they're like we want to fund it Because, I don't know, that's a lot of commitment. I don't know if I really want that much commitment and I don't know if like people really be into I don't know. I mean, everybody that needs my shit, it's really good but I don't know what about opening it in here? I thought about just like making things and selling it out of here at first, just to see. My uncle owns this place.

Speaker 2:

Your uncle owns this place.

Speaker 4:

He already told me I could. I've made some like lemon cinnamon rolls, like the lemon zest, and then blueberry lemon cinnamon rolls.

Speaker 2:

Okay.

Speaker 4:

And these, these are really like. It's like a little bit of head making. I make blueberry ones, cherry ones, that's really really good. It's really easy to do.

Speaker 2:

And Jay here was like cheesecake egg roll. Oh yeah, you have me an egg roll.

Speaker 4:

What do you think? I think I'm going to go with these local cherries, I just use frozen ones. I mean I'd like to find local ones. They'd be much better.

Speaker 3:

They're kind of hard to track down.

Speaker 1:

They are, I try to use fresh fruit never frozen fruit.

Speaker 4:

But you know, sometimes it's hard to find good stuff.

Speaker 2:

Sure, so your uncle owns the place, yeah.

Speaker 4:

How long have you worked? Here, I've been here two years, two years, yeah yeah, let's see Century family about this in 1943. 1943.

Speaker 2:

And they still own it today.

Speaker 4:

Wow yeah.

Speaker 1:

And it opened in 1983.

Speaker 2:

It opened in 1980. So the Owl cigar show was this a smoke room.

Speaker 4:

That's what they started out at selling cigars. When that smoking ban went into effect. We put bearings. My uncle says you can't smoke in my show. Oh, that makes sense we get a lot of angry people, though, because they come in for cigars and we don't sell cigars.

Speaker 2:

Are they out of town?

Speaker 4:

Yeah, gotcha, because I'm sure everybody here in town knows, yeah, knows that we do not sell cigars, though.

Speaker 2:

So they watch it and go burgers yeah. I said guys scream at me, test me out, tell me we have to put a lie to change your name.

Speaker 4:

Wow buddy, shouldn't be that mad.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I grew up here during most of the 70s.

Speaker 1:

Did you?

Speaker 3:

Actually all of us. This place isn't always a beneficiary.

Speaker 4:

It doesn't have.

Speaker 3:

I didn't smoke cigars because I was only 12.

Speaker 4:

Oh, okay, it's just always been. Like it was here and then they built the city around it. Yeah, that's what I've been told by many people.

Speaker 2:

I've tried to talk more often, but he ended up bringing back cigars just to sell them. You know that you have to have like a special license for that. Oh yeah, he's like we're just not.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, there's excise taxes. Yeah, he's like, we're just not.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and with the way things have gone, and like mac and noodle and opus, like their crops have depleted, so one cigar can be like $17.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, Nobody really wants to pay that much. Yeah, it's cost of everything, it's not really anymore. But you know what? We're still a cheap place to eat at.

Speaker 1:

Oh.

Speaker 4:

Like by far.

Speaker 1:

Well, not only there.

Speaker 4:

Or a double, double a fry and a drink for $9.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and plus, it's not cheap food.

Speaker 4:

It's fantastic, Well thank you.

Speaker 2:

Of course, and this was yeah, that was exceptional. Yeah, all right, sell them out of here, get a food truck, sell them out front.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, just get yourself like a. I'll just like a hot dog cart.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, but that's the best egg roll I've ever had. Well, thank you guys. Of course, the Owl Cigar Shop Built and opened in 1903. And it has been part of her family since 1943. And I'm certain if she gets that bakery going, it's going to be a rousing success. Now, have you ever wondered what would happen if I was traveling Southern Colorado and I visited one of these towns or these restaurants and started talking to people who didn't live there? They didn't reside there, they had no history, they were just out of town visitors and our paths happened across Perfect. Where are you visiting from?

Speaker 5:

Florida.

Speaker 2:

Florida.

Speaker 5:

Yeah. So, then we drove campus all the way out here.

Speaker 2:

You drove all the way out here. Yes, how long did that take?

Speaker 5:

Over a week yeah.

Speaker 2:

So that's not too bad?

Speaker 5:

No well, we took our time. Yeah, we just do a couple hundred miles a day. Stop, yeah, and there's three couples traveling together.

Speaker 2:

Very cool, yeah, yeah, my aunt was afraid to fly, so everywhere she traveled she took the train. But she said it was fantastic because she got to see so much of the US. And I know a few comedians. One of them met an older couple and said you know, what would you have done differently? And he said I wish I would have driven more places. Yeah, so whenever he tours him and his wife, they drive.

Speaker 5:

Well, we're hurrying to get out here Now we're slowing down, yeah.

Speaker 2:

But this is a slower little yeah. So what brought you here?

Speaker 5:

Well, one of our friends actually has property that he bought like 20 years ago just west of town and he wanted to come visit it and he told us about the Canadian city and their gulch. So we said, well, let's go see it, and so that's why we stopped here. We've got about five days here and then we're going on to Gunnison.

Speaker 4:

We're going to go actually as far out as Vegas.

Speaker 5:

And once we hit Vegas then we're going to turn and go south down into coming back through Albuquerque, Because we're going to hit there for the balloon festival.

Speaker 2:

So are you Las Vegas Nevada or Las Vegas New Mexico? Las Vegas Nevada, gotcha, so Las Vegas.

Speaker 5:

Yes, gotcha Vegas yeah.

Speaker 2:

I love the balloon festival.

Speaker 5:

It'll be our first time.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and I'll tell you, eat at the balloon festival. It's some of the best food, really. Yeah, when I went there, there was this family running a food cart and the matriarch of the family you could just see her hand. She's made a million tortillas and it was just fantastic.

Speaker 2:

So it's a ton of fun. The balloon glow is awesome and there are. We do a pretty decent one in the spring, but not in Kansas City but in Colorado Springs. But the one in Albuquerque is, it's like the balloon launch, it's like the sturgest balloons. So what brought you to?

Speaker 5:

the owl we were walking around downtown and we actually went out and we did the little hike at the base of Skyline Trail this morning and said let's go into town and see what kind of little shops. And we said, we're hot, let's stop and get something to drink. And we walked by and said, how about here? And we walked in. It's super cute.

Speaker 2:

Let's call the rest of our crew and see if they'll meet us down here, so we got the rest of them all coming in to meet us. Very cool. So that's kind of nice. You know, you didn't have a recommendation, it's just you're walking down and thought, hey, this seems quaint and yeah, we love it when that's my buddy, jay. He used to live here. He's kind of my tour guide. Your hair is awesome. I'm seeing sparkles.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, it's called fairy hair Gotcha.

Speaker 2:

I just wanted to make sure, like or no, something with my eyes.

Speaker 2:

But I last night was like a kid at Christmas, you know, because I do this podcast. I just want to tell the stories. It's not a review site, you know, because we have enough of those and I just want to tell the stories of what brings people in. Why, why do some of these people, especially in Canyon City and Pueblo, such older towns? Why do you have breakfast every day at the same place for 25 years? Like anybody can make an egg, you know, and so I want to share with us so just for real.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you know, and I found out these stories in Pueblo, where there is the mafia who is connected out of home and they have underground tunnels where they did an underground well road for prohibition. You're not going to learn that stuff unless you talk to people. Yeah, and some of these places, like you know. I think I was talking to one of the ladies up there and she said that her family's owned this since 1943. And it was built in 1903. And it was actually a cigar shop she mentioned.

Speaker 5:

Well, yeah, that's what originally it's a cigar shop. And then, as we walked by, it said in and had something else underneath it and I'm like oh well, they do have drinks here, let's walk inside. We walked in and saw the lunch counter.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it's very, very cool. But I think she was telling us well, I know she was telling us that Colorado went no smoking indoors, so why sell it if you can't smoke it? But yeah, fell in love with this place. So last night, as I get kid at Christmas, you know I was telling my wife yeah, we're going to have lunch at the Alcagar store, Alcagar store. Yeah they make the best burgers. You're gonna have a burger at the Alcagar store. Yes Well, do they sell cigars? No, I'm confused.

Speaker 2:

I love that they have a cool holiday oh yeah, it's just, and I love all the old yeah, yeah, a little Norman Rockwell, and they're playing an.

Speaker 5:

Elvis movie how good is that.

Speaker 2:

Right, I mean you can't, you can't beat it for what you pay.

Speaker 5:

We live in a place where everything's new, everything's new, yeah. Well, and it's at the people. They said it's a great place.

Speaker 4:

There's a lot of old people that live here. We don't count ourselves in that group Right. Even though we do technically.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, but I'll retire technically in the age range Right, Sure sure. Well they do allow places with history.

Speaker 5:

Yeah we, we live in the villages and they have 20% of the population that is under the age of 55.

Speaker 2:

Really.

Speaker 5:

Yes, and our little retirement community is about 130,000.

Speaker 2:

Hold on, 20% is under the age of 55. Correct, and there's 130,000 people?

Speaker 5:

Yes, and it's growing. Leaks and boughs 10,000 houses a year and the rules are if you're under the age of 18, you cannot live there permanently. You could only live there for up to three months at a time before you have to leave.

Speaker 2:

So you have to leave for like a day.

Speaker 5:

No, you can stay for 30 days.

Speaker 2:

No, I meant like, can you leave for a day and come back and start your three months?

Speaker 5:

Yeah, but we do have family-friendly neighborhoods because a lot of the people that work and run the villages are younger people with families.

Speaker 2:

So we have our own high school.

Speaker 5:

We have our own school system. They're charter schools and you have to work for the villages in order for your children to go to school there. And you have to work at the school, you have to donate hours to the school for your kids to go there and they're excellent schools. They're like the top schools in the state. I know On the Gulf side of the country In the middle. We're a smack gag in the middle, right between Orlando and Calif. We have 55, 56 golf courses, 120 pools.

Speaker 2:

But you also have what's it called humidity.

Speaker 5:

Yes, we do have humidity.

Speaker 2:

I'm allergic to humidity. It's one of the reasons we're here. Oh yes.

Speaker 5:

Because it's cool at night and there's no humidity.

Speaker 1:

And we travel.

Speaker 5:

So we travel when we're, we get in. It's hot, yeah, and in the winter, it's beautiful, it's like all year round.

Speaker 1:

So they go all tennis yeah we miss that one, fortunately.

Speaker 2:

You'll have to come back then a little later in the fall.

Speaker 5:

We've actually had two hurricanes go right over us since we've moved there and I had one palm tree go down and that was it, and it was because I just planted it. The houses are built to withstand hurricane hurricane wind. We're about 100 miles from the coast Wow.

Speaker 2:

We have wind gusts in Colorado Springs. You need to thought it was a war zone.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, but we don't build it for.

Speaker 5:

That's mostly what we get we don't wind mostly, and rain I do not like the wind, I'll take anything else or fire Colorado Springs yeah there's fires out here. Two years ago we were all the way to Seattle from Florida, made a big loop, being here for Oregon and Idaho All the way up to the Pacific Northwest coastline, and we couldn't have a fire anywhere. From the time we left Florida we went three months on the road.

Speaker 1:

Three months, not a single campfire.

Speaker 5:

Not a single campfire. Every year we went through the fires.

Speaker 2:

When the fire broke out in Colorado Springs of Italy. Fire will won't flow downhill at all, and then it was in, like this little gully I want to call it, and the wind came and they had no clue. It started going down and we couldn't even have a barbecue.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, like at our home. Yeah, that's the way it was everywhere we went. It got so bad that we got pictures of fire on our phones and we lined them up.

Speaker 4:

Self-made campfire at night.

Speaker 5:

Right, we were freezing up in like a. We were in, we were in Washington, yeah, and we were on Whippy.

Speaker 2:

Island.

Speaker 1:

Whippy Island.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, wow, you guys take the trip Every year? No, no, every year.

Speaker 5:

In fact, this is actually our last big hurrah that we're doing with our campers, mainly because we are doing things starting now that everything's opening back up. We've got places internationally we want to go. And we've done three big trips in five years. We went all the way up from east coast to main and made a big loop and came back to Florida. Then we went all the way to the west coast and made a big loop and came back to Florida. We're picking up the Southwest.

Speaker 2:

That's where you kind of yeah, the things that we wanted to see.

Speaker 5:

I just got back from Peru and Ecuador and I'm planning my trip to South Africa. I got back from Israel, israel, and then we've got England, scotland and Ireland next year.

Speaker 1:

You guys may be doing yeah.

Speaker 5:

You guys are going to do Scotland, England, Scotland, Ireland in 24. I'm doing it in 25. And then we're going to be looking at New Zealand in 26. So we're going to try to get some international stuff.

Speaker 2:

Very cool, I love your. Yeah, I can't wait to get back. I've been kind of going.

Speaker 5:

It's a lot easier to go to Europe.

Speaker 2:

Well, I'm sure.

Speaker 5:

It's cut me from here. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2:

From Florida to.

Speaker 5:

Quebec. Well, I lived in Germany for four years. My husband was there for seven, so we love going back, oh, right back, visiting.

Speaker 1:

South. Yeah, we had to.

Speaker 2:

When I went to France we had to fly to Cincinnati, and then it was 14 hours from Cincinnati to Paris and yeah. We were on the East Coast, but it's fun traveling East to West. The flight home was so much better.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, going back is a little more Right on.

Speaker 2:

Oh good. I appreciate you ladies talking with me. I'm so glad you guys visit Colorado and Canyon City. It's a slower town out there, I'm sure.

Speaker 5:

Then probably what you're used to. Slow is good. Yeah, that's why we get back here, because when we go camping, it's just take your time.

Speaker 1:

Slow down, don't be a wreck Everybody's going to spend their own thing.

Speaker 5:

Two of our guys went fishing this morning Very cool and then two of our your husband and one of the other wives is at the campground hanging out.

Speaker 4:

So we all kind of do our own thing.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, he's like I'll just sit and read my book this morning and relax a little bit.

Speaker 1:

I said, well, I'm going to go hike. And yeah, fly, fish Fly fish.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, that's where they were, so they're going to see us and fly fish this morning. Right, yeah, and I turned into that guy. Like, hey, joe, do you want to go over here? I'm like, are there stairs? I don't want stairs anymore.

Speaker 5:

That's just it. There's not a house in the Well, unless you've modified it. There's not a house in the villages that has stairs. Wow, all of the showers are set so you can roll your wheelchair your walkers right.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. For aging in place. Aging in place. I like that. I'm stealing that.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, and there's hospitals right there. I mean it's a self-contained town.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, probably 25 grocery stores.

Speaker 2:

We go everywhere by golf cart, you take your dog to the vet in your golf cart.

Speaker 5:

You can go get your hair cut.

Speaker 2:

Go from one end of the village to the other, so do you guys have golf carts. Of course we have two. Why don't you drive those out?

Speaker 5:

I've beentakes one and I take one. I actually half the time I ride my bike to the grocery store.

Speaker 2:

I have a little basket and I just ride it to the grocery store and get what I need. I have a couple of houses which serve as bike paths.

Speaker 5:

I think originally, when we moved to the villages five years ago, it was the size of Manhattan and now they've added probably. We were on the south side and now we are in the middle, so it's doubled in five years.

Speaker 2:

Oh, you didn't move, you're saying You're in the same spot.

Speaker 5:

It just grew around you, just expanding to the south, south of us. The joke is that pretty soon we can drive our golf carts to Disney. Yeah, it's expanding towards the wealthy world.

Speaker 2:

Wow, crazy. Well, thank you so much for your time it was great meeting you.

Speaker 2:

It's been a pleasure. How can you not love connecting with people? I was able to go back and visit their table once the rest of their party arrived. I have to tell you, some of the nicest people I've ever met. So to finish up this episode, I'm going to let you listen into a guided tour that Jay gave me about his hometown and just the history as he knows it Got you. Yeah, good that he was a good carpenter. Did your mom have a beauty shop at all the houses here? No, just the two, just the two.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, that's where we were living when we decided to move, when dad decided that we were moving to North Dakota Is this the school you went to?

Speaker 2:

No, not the science and technology.

Speaker 3:

It's the only elementary school in town I didn't go to Ah. Oh, because when you moved, Well, they had us in Christian school by then. This used to be a little mom and pop store. Mom and pop lived in the back and the store was in the front.

Speaker 2:

At 9.13?.

Speaker 3:

We'd walk over there and buy candy. Mom would give us a dollar and you would get an ass load of candy for a dollar, right, I like those sixlets. Oh, those were three for a penny.

Speaker 2:

And your mom would give you a dollar. You guys were like kings for a day. Oh yeah.

Speaker 3:

So they kept us out of our hair? Yeah, they kept us out of our hair. That's the best parking time. Centennial Park.

Speaker 2:

There's the train.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, they do dinner theater stuff on there, sometimes murder mysteries.

Speaker 2:

You know, as I was walking down Main Street, as I was walking down Main Street, I walked past the theater and it said we'll be back on September 15th. So they just must be open. Either they're on vacation or they're open. You know, limited time.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, probably limited time, because everybody travels in the summer. And here, this is where I lived when Jaws came out and they told Spielberg that if he released Jaws in the summer that he'd never worked in Hollywood again. Oh, and he single handedly created the summer movies because it was a popular belief that nobody went to the movies in the summer, and now we hear all about the summer blockbusters, and the thing that I always thought was stupid is why wouldn't you go to the movies in the summer?

Speaker 3:

It's 85 degrees outside. Go sitting in air condition auditorium and watch a movie.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, obviously Canyon City seems like an older town. So they're releasing. Their next movie is Haunting in Venice. That's a first run. What's that? That's a first run movie? Yeah, but what I'm saying is Agatha Christie.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, well, people here like that. Yeah, most people here knew Agatha Christie.

Speaker 3:

So I'm going to take one more little bit.

Speaker 2:

I know it's nice to learn the history.

Speaker 3:

So this is the territorial prison Used to be the old maximum security prison, but now it's for elderly and infirm inmates. So no escapes now then you know everybody that there's older crippled.

Speaker 2:

It's like a 55 and older community Nothing here. So this next segment makes sense. We visited the Canyon City Cemetery and one of the biggest Adornments I guess you would call it at the cemetery was for a family named Denardo Denardo.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, they sell cider. They own a bunch of apple farms.

Speaker 2:

Like hard cider, or just I'm just regular cider, just regular. And what was that place called Waffle wagon?

Speaker 3:

Waffle wagon.

Speaker 2:

Huh, permanently closed, that sucks.

Speaker 3:

I march as I.

Speaker 2:

And what was that place called Burger World? Big Burger World, big Burger World. And when we left on Myrtle we used to be able to walk up there because there was only three blocks away when I was talking to the ladies who didn't, one lady didn't want me to record, and I'll never record someone without them. Yeah, knowing it, but they recommended, when I come back, pizza Madness. Oh, and they also recommended this mission place.

Speaker 3:

There's a little Mexican place, I think it's right down here and it's called oh God, that's what you call it Getting home. But they serve what I consider to be the forerunner to the Chalupa. But they're handmade, called Taco Blancos.

Speaker 2:

And there you have it. Taco Blancos wraps up this episode of the 7-1-Dine podcast. Obviously, we'll be returning to Canyon City in the near future, but in the meantime I highly recommend it. Tell them. 7-1-dine sent you Last little bit of info before I let you go. We will be attending this Saturday, so the day after tomorrow, saturday, september 16th, from 1 to 6 pm, the best of the West Wing Fest. For more information, go online and visit them at bestofthewestwingsfestcom. Again, thank you to everyone who has reached out, supported us, has just given us so much encouragement the restaurants, the owners, the people we have met. Thank you so much for being a part of this. Please know that we would not be here without you, and until next time.

Speaker 1:

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