Artist Gathering, Scientific Beer, Live Theater (of the Dead) on the Streets, and a Visiting Dignitary

*Golden Eye Candy – Fall Kayaking, 2010 – click to enlarge*

Public Health References
CDC * Colorado * Jefferson County * City of Golden

JCPHD updates these numbers Monday through Friday at about 3 PM. Here’s the most recent Coronavirus report from Jeffco Public Health’s Case Summary Page:

School of Mines COVID-19 case page. | Masks are required. | City and County fire restrictions are in place. | Clear Creek is now open.

Virtual Golden

6-6:55AM Virtual HIIT
9-10AM Virtual Power Training

Real World Golden

8AM Morning Start: An Artist Coffee Meetup with Charlotte Bassin
Morning StArt is a joint one-hour coffee meetup program designed to bring artists in the area together with the Golden community, to meet and talk about art. These Meetups are jointly sponsored with the Golden Public Arts Commission and the Foothills Art Center. Join other creatives at Cafe 13 to start your morning! Come and grab a cup of coffee with artist, Andi Burnum. This event is FREE. RSVP’ing is encouraged.

11AM Yoga on Tap at New Terrain Brewing
1PM Friday Tour at the Railroad Museum – Museum Highlights

3PM Yellowstone, Fire and Beer: A Better Understanding of Your Beverage at Coda Brewing with guests from CSM (map)
We love science… we’ve built a brewery on the science of brewing. We are honored to bring our friends in for a talk, and you’re invited!

Kalen Rasmussen, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Yellowstone)
Alex Honeyman, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Wildfire & Soil Recovery)
Henry Peel, Undergraduate Student, Department of Chemical Engineering (CODA Beer!)
John Spear, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Who knows what, but it will be cool!)

Live Music:
5PM Jesh Yancey & the High Hopes at Coda Brewing
6PM Live Music at Wrigley’s
7:30PM Van Halen Fest II at Buffalo Rose

Spectacle de Curiosite’

Help Keep the Arts Alive on the West Side!

Think you have what it takes to solve this time-traveling mystery? Grab your detective buddies to the streets of Downtown Golden and discover the strangest sci-fi circus you’ve ever seen! Ghosts, vampires and time-traveling aliens gather at the vortex between worlds on Washington Avenue and YOU’RE INVITED!

This spellbinding live, outdoor theatrical production will take your team on a dangerous journey, where you will try to save the future world from certain Armageddon! Think you can figure it out in time?

Yes we can do theater safely! This is a Covid-Safe, live production. All scenes are viewed at 6 ft. minimum with face masks required on all actors and participants, with 6 feet between all groups.

Tickets on sale NOW! Limited space available per performance for safe social distancing, so get your tickets early before they sell out!
SHOW DATES: Oct 2, 3, 16, 17, 23, 24 & 30 | START TIME is 7:15 ENDS 9:30 | TICKETS ONLINE AT: www.madameztravelingmysteryshow.com

Tomorrow and Sunday

October 3rd and 4th, the Golden Rotary Foundation will be conducting their annual Miracle Shop Toy Drive. Nathan Kellogg is leading this effort as his Eagle Scout project. Please bring a NEW toy (or a monetary contribution) to the Lutheran Church (map) between 9AM and 3PM on Saturday or 9AM-11:30AM on Sunday. The toys will be made available to local parents who are in a financial bind so they can provide holiday gifts to their kids Learn more….

Golden History Moment

*Recording the Lion’s Roar for MGM Pictures – source: wikipedia*

90 Years Ago
The October 2, 1930 Colorado Transcript included a small article announcing that Leo, the MGM lion, would be visiting the Golden Gem Theater on Friday October 10th. It promised that Leo would be the central figure in a parade, and that he would eat his daily meal at the Gem theater. (The Golden Gem Theater was located at 13th and Washington, where Starbucks now is.)

This was not the type of news I usually encounter in old Transcripts, so I pursued the item into the next couple of issues. The October 16th edition reported that he really had come.

*The Golden Gem Theater building, 13th and Washington – courtesy Google Maps*

The procession came up Washington Avenue, headed by the School of Mines band, and followed by the two fire trucks. Then came the three huge motorized circus wagons, one containing Leo’s own silver barred, glass enclosed cage, another a calliope and the third the office of the lion’s manager. Then followed the decorated cars of the Golden business firms and many private ones.

Leo’s “performance” consisted of roaring (which one would certainly want the MGM lion to do) and eating 25 pounds of meat. According to the Transcript, “he made more noise during the eating process than a dozen careless husbands eating soup.”

I looked for the famous MGM logo (with lion) to head this article, but found the images were all copyrighted. I did come across a wikipedia article that said the lion was traveling around the country at that time on a promotional tour.

Many 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!