a-frame lounge - roadside architecture
The A-Frame Lounge on the 76 highway out in Commerce City.
Roadside architecture is designed to catch your attention while driving, so even if you have never stopped here, you have aready noticed this structure while driving, say, toward the Flea Market!
When this was built in the ’50s, this was located in the middle of nowhere, so this was your last chance to get gas, food, coffee (and apparently a martini) before heading east out of town.
I assume originally they rented motel rooms in the A-Frame itself, so that makes this a restaurant, bar, gas station, service station and motel, all-in-one. Quite a feat for such a small structure!
There does not seem to be too much activity going on in this building these days. I thought I’d better take some pictures before something drastic happens to this charming historical building.
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When I was a kid in the 1960s driving in from western Nebraska I always knew we were getting close to Denver when we saw the A-Frame! How cool to know it still exists! At some point this building MAY have had a lighted Conoco or Texaco sign in letters on the top of the roof. I also remember a trailer court or perhaps a motel along the route in this area called SPACE CENTER CITY. Thanks for posting this. Hopefully it will be rehabbed and saved!