Reader: Closing of Carbone's is a consequence of hipsters invading Denver

Businesses like Carbone's have a life cycle of their own and will rise and fall subject to a wide range of circumstances, not solely the demographic make-up of the immediate neighborhood. When the Italian families who occupied that part of town for such a long tenure some 30 years ago pulled up stakes and headed to Wheat Ridge, Westminster and Arvada, Carbone's chose to stick it out and sell their excellent wares to a new clientele. Even hipsters like sausage and pasta e fagoli....

I hate hipsters as much as the next guy, but I don't see how this is they're fault.

......what's a hipster? Seriously.

Will someone please lend Mark DeNittis the money to buy this place. He is one of the few people I could see the owners selling this place to, and he would be a fantastic fit behind the counter.  

Though I do enjoy the music, I'm too old to be a hipster. I tried to go to Carbone's on a weekday last year (well before the"illness") and found it closed even though it was during business hours.

WTF do hipsters have to do with her family not wanting to run the business? Honestly, the place was nothing special; maybe it was 20+ years ago. The sandwiches were average at best. The wait took too long and parking was a nightmare. Never understood the love affair. They are very nice people and that is the sole reason I would grab a sandwich on occasion.

HipsterYuppieFucktard here,

I earned my money the old fashioned way.  You know, by selling my thoughts and ideas.  Blogs?  That was my idea.  I'm tired of getting blamed for you lazyasses who post on blogs all day instead of ordering ten "Italian #2" from your local sandwich shop everyday so Mama Carbone can make a living.  Here's a thought; want to save your local "institution" that you love so much?  Buy it.  Or frequent it everyday, and buy a dozen Italian #2 for your mental health support group and get them addicted (in a good way).  That's called "saving a business the old fashioned way by keeping it in business."  If you haven't learned yet, you'll learn the hard way;  money runs the world.  People make or sell to get more of it.  Now get to work before some hipsteryuppiefucktard takes your job, becomes your landlord, and kicks your lazyass out.

Luv ya.

If you've been to Carbone's lately you'd notice that all the shelves are empty and the cooler is nearly bear. Momma Carbone is ready to get out of the game and has literally been screaming about it for years. You can't blame hipsters for this one, regardless of how tight their jeans are and although I will miss their meatball subs and the Italian #2, everything good has to come to an end.

Pains me to say, but Dave Barnes makes an excellent point.  These places are not closing down because of "hipsters" (Hipster's don't dine at fucking Applebees anyway" They are closing down because most of these decades old places were run by people who simply wanted out and when someone makes an offer you cant refuse.... you sell and move on to sunnier retirement spots.  Most of these places didnt close because lack of customers (I'm sure Pagliacci's was pretty happy to have 3000 new residents surrounding them) so next time you want to blame a whole group, try and think about the underlying causes behind them... or just shut the fuck up... that works too.

They keep using that word... I do not think it means what they think it means.

So the hipsters caused a family illness?

The hipsters caused Mama Carbone to be a surly old gal that has been threatening to close the shop down for 10 years?