Word: boulder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fame can be as fleeting as an image on a television screen: Olliemania is a bust. Joel Shelton of Boulder sold (at $12 each) fewer than 500 shirts bearing North's picture. John Lee Hudson of San Francisco is canceling plans for a mail-order Ollie doll ($19.95) because he received only 200 orders. And the Old Man River Doghouse has replaced the Oliver North sandwich with the Piggly Wiggly: a frankfurter topped with bacon and cheese. From hero to hot dog in just two months...
More outposts are being readied for opening. In Santa Barbara, Calif., Steven Sponder, proprietor of the Cajun-Creole Palace Cafe, is planning Key Largo, scheduled to open next January. "In one word, it's Hemingway," says Sponder of his new venture. Bruce Monette of Southern Exposure in Boulder has big dreams for his Southern and Caribbean food, to be served in a 19th century stone building. "It will appeal to students, professionals, Buddhist vegetarians and steak-and-potato traditionalists," he boasts...
...sight-seeing bus tour through the Rocky Mountains west of Denver is one of the nation's summertime spectaculars. But the scenic trip was tragically cut short for 28 vacationers last week when a 6 1/2-ton boulder careered 710 ft. down a mountainside, smacking into the side of their...
...mishap, which killed eight people, three of them foreign tourists, and seriously injured six, was no natural disaster. The boulder was being moved by a state road worker when it suddenly plummeted out of control...
...boulder, which authorities said weighed several tons and measured 17 feet across and 6 feet high, struck the Gray Line tour bus just before 11 a.m. as it neared the foot of the heavily traveled 11,314-foothigh Berthoud Pass on U.S. 40. The accident site is about 60 miles northwest of Denver...