![]() J.J.'s Lounge ran bands five nights per week, Wednesday through Sunday. The Rose ran bands five, sometimes six nights per week. On the northwest corner was J.J.'s Lounge. On the southeast corner, you would find Gators. On the southwest corner, you had The Rose. The intersection of 30 Road and I-70B was home to a number of clubs. The Grand Junction Triangleīack in the day, you had what many of us called "The Grand Junction Triangle." I'm pretty sure law enforcement officers used to call it that, too. Nevertheless, my parents would take me to see Ralph N' Clyde at the Jungle Bar. Don't ask me what I was doing there, I would have been five years old. These Clubs Really Did Existīack in the mid-1970s, my family would hang out at the Jungle Bar at the Cafe Caravan on 1st Street in Grand Junction. While that may not seem like much now, please keep in mind that the minimum wage was $3.35 an hour back then. Customers would pay a $7 cover charge to get in for FAC. to 7 p.m., take a break, and then resume for a normal Friday night set from 9 p.m. The club used to host a FAC with the bands starting at (I think) 5 p.m. Back in the early 1990s, it wasn't uncommon to see a line wrapped around the building each Friday night at The Rose.
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