Golden, Colorado: Rocky Flats Lounge (Gone)
Watering hole for workers at the former nuke weapons site across the street -- which became a Superfund site on its journey to becoming a wildlife refuge. Glow-in-the-dark lounge merchandise. Burned down July 2015.
- Directions:
- About 8 miles south of Boulder, on the west side of Rt 93, across from Rocky Flats.
- Hours:
- Burned July 2015.
- Status:
- Gone
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It's now closed and boarded up tight.
[Cynthia Schulz, 02/14/2016]
The Lounge is a lonely building almost directly across the street from the entrance to the area's famous former nuclear-bomb factory, Rocky Flats (which operated from 1952 to 1988, became a Superfund site, and is now being converted to a wildlife refuge). The lounge was the old Rocky Flats Payroll office before it became the hangout for Rocky Flats workers prior to the shut-down and cleanup.
Their schwag has a radiation symbol on it (some glow in the dark).
It has always been a Packer's Bar, filled with Wisconsin natives on game days. The lot is usually filled with motorcycles and pickups. They have this Wisconsin fish fry every Friday night and it gets pretty packed.
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