The Retro Dad

2020 has been quite a stinker of a year, so I'm gracious for any tidbit of joy that comes my way. The Dodgers World Series win last night against the Tampa Bay Rays made my week and is a great way to close out October for me. This crazy year had me longing for any sort of normalcy in the spring. I yearned to watch baseball once again, and even started watching Korean baseball games to get my fix. That led to me spending hours reminiscing about Dodgers baseball of the 70s and 80s , which in turn led to getting me back into collecting baseball cards . When baseball finally started up again, I began watching any game I could, but especially Dodgers games when they played in our market, which wasn't very often in central Florida . I noticed very quickly that the Dodgers had a heck of a team this year and knew they had a chance to go all the way.  This was one of those sweet wins. The last time the Dodgers won a World Series was 1988. This year marked the Dodgers 8th consecutive ap...

Back in the early seventies and eighties, there weren't many options for Mexican food restaurants in Fort Collins Colorado.  Here are the only Mexican eateries that I personally remember, during the course of two decades growing up in Fort Collins. The Armadillo This was probably the largest locally owned chain of Mexican restaurants in Colorado. Last I heard, there were only two remaining Armadillo restaurants still open. The first is the original restaurant located in La Salle Colorado, and the other is located about an hour south in Northglenn Colorado. I think their main competitor was another local chain called 'Garcia's' which I recall getting heavy commercial play on both radio and television.  El Burrito For years, the Denver Broncos training camp was held in Greeley Colorado, which is southeast of Fort Collins. El Burrito catered Mexican food to the training camp for a very long time until the football organization finally built their own facility near Denver....