Today I found that my childhood has a Wikipedia page.
I have this very shadowy and magical memory of a place where Snoopy made perpetual laps around a tightrope strung from the ceiling on his unicycle in a jaw-dropping feat of balance. A red and gold carousel provides a tinkling soundtrack to this memory and sticky, honeyed hands from unending sopapillas provides the smell. There was Skee Ball. There was a talking wishing well, with water the color of Windex, that swallowed hundereds of our pennies. There was a jail cell with rubber bars, roaming mariachis, and magic shows. This is one of those childhood memories that is so shadowy and magical that I have often questioned if I ever really experienced this place and if I did, how distant are my memories from reality. It turns out they are not so distant after all.
This place was called Casa Bonita and it has a Wikipedia page. It was a mexican restaurant that lived in my hometown for a short period of time in the 1980s. There is still one location in Colorado and, although I would like to visit, I know that experiencing it as an adult could never live up to my memories of being there as a child.
Image from www.artifacting.com/blog/2006/04/10/la-experiencia-de-bonita-del-casa/
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i wish i could have seen this place casa bonita. i am having fun here on this page. i will probably come back often-especially since i now know how to spell pigeon.
luvyuuu
monkey's blog is the same as yours except monkititus instead of ipigeon1, i haven't done much to it at all - the only pics up are portland
Pigeon child your memory does not fail you. Casa Bonita is real and I took you and sister pigeon there a few times. Times were lean in those days or we would have gone more often because I, too, found it quite magical!
Mama Pigeon
Hi I, Pigeon
Good post. I too have many memories of Casa Bonita. Feel free to continue using my photograph, I just ask that you link back to me.
-hubs
www.artifacting.com/blog
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