Falling in love at Casa Bonita: When a gift shop attendee met a mariachi performer

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This story is one in a series featuring trips down memory lane with longtime Casa Bonita fans and former employees who shared their fondest tales with The Denver Post. The restaurant and entertainment venue in Lakewood is expected to reopen in May.

Not long after Annette Enzaldo started working at the Casa Bonita gift shop in 1974, the year the Lakewood restaurant and entertainment venue opened, she caught the eye of a mariachi band member.

Annette, formerly Schumaker, always admired the musicians as they tuned up their instruments near the gift shop. “When the band would make their grand entrance into Casa Bonita, it made my heart flutter to hear that music,” she said.