Getting your player ready...
After waiting nine years, what’s a few more hours in line? More than 10,000 people queued up in Lone Tree and Thornton to be among the inaugural shoppers at .
The outdoors-gear retailer said it was coming to the Denver area in 2004, but a proposed project in Wheat Ridge fell through, and Cabela’s bided its time in finding new sites.
Expert archers fired arrows to cut ceremonial ribbons before the stores opened their doors.
“I’m looking forward to seeing some cool stuff,” said 11-year-old Kevin Ramirez of Thornton, who waited near the end of a quarter-mile line that snaked entirely around the Thornton store. “It’s worth it.”
Steve Raabe: 303-954-1948, sraabe@denverpost.com or twitter.com/steveraabedp
