But for fans looking for a sign of how things might go in the Packers-Broncos game on Sunday night … The fire in July started in the kitchen and caused damage significant enough that, three months later, the bar remains boarded up, a shell of its storied past. (Hey, when you can’t do better that that, just quote someone who did.) “In short,” Calhoun wrote, “this is just the place to get bombed.” Witty Westword editor Patricia Calhoun said the highly charged watering hole “has long given a whole new meaning to ‘getting lit.’ ” She went on to praise the lounge’s cheap and powerful drinks its fish fryįriday nights and the view of the wildlife refuge that replaced Rocky Flats and managed somehow not to produce eight-headed cows. Rocky Flats stopped making bombs in 1989, in part because of criminal violations of environmental law, as well as unusually high incidences of employees dying of cancer (including the father of my best high-school friend). This Used to Be: The most unlikely of places for Green Bay Packers fans to gather and drink beer, eat cheese and cheer their team - a true dive bar on an isolated stretch of Highway 93 that managed to outlast the nuclear weapons across the street … but not a devastating fire in July. 11229 CO-93, on the road from Golden to Boulder