[frickin_frackin]

Not to mention that they had two runways actually crossed each other.

[TigersEye]

I didn't know that. Did Stapleton have much more than two runways? As a kid I played in Sand Creek right under the flight path of the east-west runway. Landing jets would be only 100-200 feet above our heads. Our neighborhood was just adjacent to the creek.

We also used to ride our bikes out to the terminal and roam the concourse for fun. We could go up on top of the terminals and watch the planes dock breathing in the fumes and exposing our kiddie ears to the full blast of the jet engines. No one ever confronted us and told us to go home. What a different time that was.