Virtual Events
8:30-9:30AM Virtual Power Training
8:30-9:25AM Strength and Cardio
11AM-12PM All Levels Yoga Virtual
Real World Events
PranaTonic is offering both in-person and virtual yoga and tai chi classes today.
1-8PM The Bridgewater Grill in the Golden Hotel is offering a Christmas Eve buffet for $79.95/person. Reservations Required 303.279.2010/
Tomorrow, the Table Mountain Inn will offer a Christmas brunch from 7AM-1:30PM and a Christmas dinner from 3-7PM.
For Retail Emergencies
Safeway and King Soopers both close at 7PM tonight. Natural Grocers will close at 6PM. All three will be closed all day tomorrow.
Walgreens will close at 5PM tonight and will be open from 9AM-6PM on Christmas Day.
Golden History Moment
162 Years Ago
This story comes from the December 28, 1859 Western Mountaineer. In it, George West describes his melancholy Christmas Eve.
He was thinking of the kind of dinner that he hadn’t seen since leaving Boston, nine months earlier–turkey and all the trimmings. He was trying to persuade himself that his recurring dinner of bacon and baked beans would be just as good, and while considering the matter, he fell asleep.
George said he dreamt of his kind neighbor, holding a snowy white cloth full of all the foods he was longing to have. A little angel appeared beside the lady of his dreams and invited him to partake.
The invitation was so exciting that he woke up. Standing beside his bed was “the little angel of our dream, who had taken the form of a little bright-eyed daughter of our friend T.P. Boyd of the Golden City House.” And lo, the angel said, “Pa and ma want to see you.”
George was staying in the Boston Company building, in today’s Parfet Park. The Boyds lived in the Golden City House, where the Golden Hotel stands today.
He hurried over the bridge to the Boyd’s house, “and upon the table of our kind neighbor we found the fulfillment of our dream, and we heartily thank friend Boyd and his estimable lady for their thoughtfulness.”
A few years later, Mr. West married Eliza, one of the Boyd daughters. Perhaps he associated her with relief from starvation.
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!
