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COVID Updates
Appointments to Get the COVID Vaccine (Eligibility)
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CDC * Colorado * Jefferson County * City of Golden
Jefferson County is at Level Orange, “High Risk.”
Jefferson County Case Summary:
Cases in Jeffco – Weds: 34,231 | Thurs: 34,363 (+132)
Deaths in Jeffco – Weds: 710 | Thurs: 713 (+3)
Currently Hospitalized in Jeffco – Weds: 37| Thurs: 30 (-7)
Known Cases in Golden – Mon: 1292 | Thurs: 1314 (+22)
Recovered – Weds: 32,195 | Thurs: 32,341 (+146)
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Golden History Moment
119 Years Ago – Colorado Transcript – January 29th, 1902
When I don’t have a particular topic in mind for this daily history article, I often go in search of a newspaper from the same day of the month (January 29th in this case). This time I wound up visiting 1902.
Today, I’m posting an assortment of display ads from the Transcript of 119 years ago. I often find the advertisements more interesting than the news–particularly since, after almost a year of writing daily history articles I have written about many of these businesses. I often know where they were located and what years they were in business.
Wade Clothing (1882-1906) was located in the Opera House block–about where the Ace Hi Tavern is now. Brown’s (1888-1919) was in the space now occupied by Del’s Tonsorial. Broad’s (1887-1930) was in the Everett block–now Goozell Yogurt. The Big Red Boot was somewhere in the vicinity of Cafe 13.
Supermarkets didn’t evolve until after World War II. In 1902 (pre-automobile), people walked to the grocery store or had their food delivered. While there were several grocery stores downtown, most neighborhoods also had one or more small groceries.
I was interested to find so many railroad advertisements. Tourism was really taking off as an industry during this period. There was a big national campaign, funded by the railroads, telling people to See America First! It was designed to persuade people to vacation in this country rather than going to Europe. If the railroads were placing such large ads in a small paper like the Transcript, they must have been spending a fortune on advertising all over the country!
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!
