WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
9AM-5PM Many of the museums are open today:
Golden History Museum (10AM-4:30PM)
Colorado Railroad Museum (9AM-5PM)
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum (10AM-4PM)
Buffalo Bill Museum & Gravesite (10AM-5PM)
Dinosaur Ridge (9AM-5PM)
10-10:45AM Storybook Tour @ Colorado Railroad Museum
11AM-9:30PM 4th of July Celebration @ Lions Park
There will be live bands throughout the day, wine & beer available for purchase, and five food trucks on hand. The Lions Club will be announcing raffle winners throughout the day. Fireworks will happen at dusk!
The restrictions on Clear Creek have been lifted, so expect big crowds in and around the Creek. Learn more….
4PM Wild West Walking Tour
4PM Wild West Short Tour
NO TRIVIA TONIGHT @ either the Buffalo Rose or the Golden Mill
SEE THE COMPLETE CALENDAR OF EVENTS.
LIVE MUSIC
1PM ProjectX @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
3-6PM Abby Brown @ The Golden Mill
5-8PM Shawn Nelson Band @ Old Capitol Grill & Smokehouse
6PM Karaoke with Linda @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
6PM Open Bluegrass Pick Night @ Over Yonder Brewing
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
59 Years Ago
The July 9th, 1964 Colorado Transcript reported that the 4th of July fireworks had fizzled that year. The Golden unit of the National Guard had set up the fireworks equipment–including sandbags and three mortars–on Castle Rock on the morning of the fourth. The “mortars” were wooden tubes that the City had constructed the previous year.
Sometime that afternoon, vandals pushed two of the mortars and all of the sandbags over the edge.
One of the mortars was stolen, but two were recovered from the mountainside below Castle Rock. The guardsmen retrieved the two mortars and returned them to the top of Castle Rock. Then they started the show. After five or six shells were fired, one of the sparks landed on the pile of fireworks that they planned to use and the entire collection went off at once. Fortunately, no one was hurt.
As Charlene Pazar recalls: “It truly was spectacular as long as it lasted!!”
For a longer, better version of this story, see Vic DeMaria’s post in the “You Might Be From Golden If” group on Facebook. If you’re not a member of that group, you should ask to be admitted–Vic is constantly posting great Golden history bits!
Thanks to the Golden History Museum for providing the online cache of historic Transcripts, and to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866!
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