I decorated the restaurant with old train paraphernalia that I bought from various sources as I traveled around and it fit the image of Cripple Creek perfectly, because in the 1890s when Cripple Creek was a booming gold-mining town there was over 70 trains on three different tracks that came to Cripple Creek every day. The old timers would tell me how the locomotive was like a living thing. It breathed, it coughed, it howled, and in numerous ways let you know when it wasn't happy. It's said that each one had a different personality and could make you happy, or quite easily kill you if you didn't understand its moods.
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It's an old Kress five and dime store. These stores are well remembered from my youth, because a nickel or a dime was about all I ever had when I went shopping. This one looks like it's life has been extended by turning it into a restaurant. They left the old original vertical sign sticking out from the building that says Kress on it, I like that, it shows they took pride in the buildings heritage.
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