![]() ![]() Behind him, the Waffle House’s large windows looked across the highway to the site where the original Del Camino stood - now a Shell station/Circle K - at the intersection that bears Turner’s name.Īcross the highway, off Turner Avenue, tucked behind the fast-food restaurants, motels and an industrial park, is the River Valley Village Mobile Home Community, Mona Haddock’s home since she began working there in 1993. “Are you sure?” Turner hollered from the counter, grinning. And one employee is pretty sure that this store is located in Erie. Firestone has annexed up to within a few hundred yards. The post office views the address as Longmont. Most have worked for Waffle House for years, and a few of those say they have chosen to work at this store because the people are friendly here, even if they’re not sure where “here” actually is.įrom the corporate viewpoint, this is the Longmont Waffle House. The cook and the waitresses stopped to talk with an inquiring customer. On a recent weekday morning, a dozen customers - many wearing caps and a couple in black cowboy hats - sat at booths and at the counter, ordering hash browns, biscuits, bacon, fried eggs. The restaurant serves regulars who travel from as far as Loveland and the north Denver metro area. The café has one of the chain’s highest daily customer averages on the Front Range, one shift manager said. During the busy summer season, the Waffle House serves as many as 2,000 people a day. While Turner can’t place the date, he recalls a time when the Texaco station sold more gasoline than any station in the country, and the McDonald’s was tops in hamburger sales.ĭel Camino’s location sells plenty of waffles, too. That kind of traffic sells a lot of gasoline and hamburgers. On average, more than 38,000 motorists a day drive Highway 119 past the Turner Boulevard sign, based on 2008 Colorado Department of Transportation numbers. When he deeded the road to Weld County, it accepted, but Turner added one demand: If the county changed the name of the road, ownership would revert to him. He named the street Turner Boulevard, because it sounded better than Turner Street, and aligned it with a dirt road that previously had met at corners with Burger Road. ![]() ![]() He cleared them all, one by one, and found a provision in the final lien that allowed the deed to be released to him. Turner was working for someone in the area at the time and discovered a number of liens against the road, including one by the makers of Zep hand cleaner against a truck stop. ![]() The corporation went bankrupt in 1980, leaving the road unclaimed and not maintained. Burger Road was only 40 feet wide the county’s standard was 50 feet. deeded the road to Weld County, but the county didn’t want it. The Del Camino McDonald’s backs up to what was once aptly named Burger Road, after Arnold and Lambert Burger, two of the three partners in the Del Camino Corp., which had turned a Texaco station into the Del Camino and built the Stuckey’s.ĭel Camino Corp. “What has kept Del Camino growing is that it’s rural, and the taxes are cheaper.”īeing in the property business, Turner knows well Del Camino’s poor planning side and its entrepreneurial side. “When you build a highway, growth’s going to come to that highway. ![]()
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