Cherry Cricket

History of the Cricket The term legendary is overused these days But the Cherry Cricket lives up to the lofty classification and the revered reputation it holds as a bastion of classic neighborhoodbar culture Mary Zimmerman opened the original Cherry Cricket as Mary Zimmermans Bar in 1945 The bar was actually the living room of her home which sat where the Sears Auto Center is today Her customers were mainly garbage truck drivers working at the Denver trash dump now buried beneath the Cherry Creek Mall site Yep this was one of Denvers first successful recycling endeavors Around 1950 Zimmerman purchased the property at 2nd and Clayton where she built what is now the Crickets main dining room Over the years she added to the structure increasing its size to accommodate a growing clientele After Zimmermans death in the early Sixties the Cricket changed proprietors a couple times before ending up in the capable hands of Bernard Duffy Duffy gained local barculture fame as the owner of the equally legendary and now shuttered sniffsniff Duffys Tavern in downtown Denver Duffy installed the classic neon sign that now graces the front of the building and carried out a number