What’s Happening in Golden Today?
Denver Restaurant Week will be held for 10 days March 3 – 12, 2023. The program showcases the creative, exciting menus that diners have come to expect – with both to-go and in-person options. Once again, Denver Restaurant Week will include three price points: $25, $35, and $45 for a three-course meal. These Golden restaurants are participating:
Bridgewater Grill at the Golden Hotel – Menu
Indulge Bistro & Wine Bar
Nomad Taqueria + Beer Garden
Nosu Ramen
Denver Restaurant Week Begins
6-6:55AM HIIT (Virtual)
8-9AM Morning StART with Tom van der Sloot @ Foothills Art Center
8:30-9:30AM Power Training (Virtual)
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
10:30AM The Friday Highlights Tour @ Colorado Railroad Museum and
1:30-2:30PM Moving the Message Tour @ Colorado Railroad Museum
12-12:55PM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
1-1:45PM Silver Sneakers Yoga (Virtual)
3PM Vaccine, License & Microchip Clinic @ Foothills Animal Shelter
3-5PM Dungeons & Dragons Hangout @ Golden Library
4PM Wild West Short Tour
7:30PM The Great American Trailer Park Musical @ Miners Alley Playhouse
This is the LAST WEEKEND to see this musical comedy, and tickets are scarce.
Live Music
5-8PM Live Music @ Eddy Taproom
5-8PM Glenn Unrath @ Goosetown Station
7PM El Loco Fandango | Tribute to ZZ Top & Forever Man | Tribute to Eric Clapton @ Buffalo Rose
7-10PM Chuck Fisher @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
7-10PM Bunny Blake @ Morris & Mae
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
Golden History Moment
74 Years Ago
Golden’s population was exploding in 1949. The town was filling up with returning GIs attending the School of Mines on the GI Bill. To accommodate the growing population, real estate developers were gearing up to build batches of small houses that qualified for VA financing. The campus and many yards in town contained mobile homes. In response to the surge in population, crammed in wherever they could fit, the community was developing its first zoning code.
In 1949, the town regularly experienced critical water shortages–especially during winter months, when the pipes from the mountain reservoirs often froze solid. We were also sending untreated sewage into Clear Creek and downstream users were threatening to sue us.
The town’s infrastructure required continual upgrades, and that included the telephone system, as shown in the photos below. Telephones didn’t have dials at that time, so all calls required an operator. Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph was kept busy bringing more lines to town and hiring more switchboard operators.
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!
