In the beginning…
…there was Penny Lane. And it was good.
Penny Lane was inked into the memories of Boulderites former and current as the beatnik-come-hippy-punk hangout that featured venerable alt culture events and accouterments like poetryslams, open mikes, up and coming folk-punk bands, the obligatory singer songwriters, the not-so obligatory singer songwriters, terrible art, great art, Women’s Writers Night, among many others.
For some the memory comes from the olfactory; the aroma of petuli and cigarrette smoke that pervaded half a block in each direction along Pearl and 18th from the oddly triangular patio. Juxtaposed with Trident, Penny Lane was the eastern bastion of the late night coffee shop scene.
Sometime in ‘02 Penny Lane installed wireless internet, and there began a revolution.
