Autumn Leaves, Fabulous Food, and the Smokestack

*Golden Eye Candy – Betsy Barr – Fall Hang Gliding – enlarge*

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?

Today is a Federal holiday (Columbus Day), so there will be no mail delivery. The City of Golden is celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day, so the City offices are closed, though the Community Center is open. The library is open today.

8:30-9:30AM Power Training (Virtual)
9:15-9:45AM Let’s Dance @ Golden Library
10-10:55AM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
10:15-10:45AM Discovery Play @ Golden Library
2-3PM Active Minds Monday – The Nobel Prize (Virtual)

4-5:30PM Golden Neighbors: Xicamiti La Taquería Bistro / Vecinos de Golden: Xicamiti La Taquería Bistro @ Golden Library

Ad for an artists' gathering at Foothills Art Center

5:30-8:30PM LIT: Let’s Ignite Together @ Foothills Art Center

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TRIVIA

7-8PM Colorado Trivia League @ Morris & Mae

GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT

Nine postcard images of Coors Brewery between 1925 and 19707 — *Several postcards of Coors, all with smokestacks (and therefore all photos taken between 1925 and 1970) – enlarge*

53 Years Ago
The July 13, 1970 Golden Transcript reported that the Coors smokestack was being demolished. The 180 foot tall smokestack was built in 1925. The article explains that the stack had been used with a coal boiler. The Clean Air Act became law in 1967, and Coors had switched to gas and oil boilers, to clean up their emissions.

Coors brewery, while it was producing malted milk - tall smokestack producing black smoke — *Coors, with its tall smokestack emitting thick black smoke – Denver Public Library Western History Collection – enlarge*

From the article:
All of this is part of Coors recognition for the need to control air pollution. Remember how the black smoke used to waft over the Table Mountains, down the valley towards Wheat Ridge or up the valley over Golden?

The presence (or absence) of the smokestack is one item that I use to help establish dates for pictures of Coors.

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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