Busy, Busy, Busy Day

*Golden Eye Candy – Andi Pearson – Castle Rock in the Evening Light – enlarge*

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?

7:45AM New and Prospective Member Hike @ Apex Park
8AM Saturday Morning Run and Social Walk @ Golden History Park

8AM-1PM Golden Farmers Market @ Golden Library west parking lot
9AM-3PM Rummage Sale @ Golden Gate Grange
9AM-12PM Treasure Chest @ Home Depot
9AM-4PM Art, Artifact & Mineral Sale @ Mines Museum
9:30AM-3:30PM Quilting with Paper @ Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
9:30-11:30AM Full Walking Tour @ Dinosaur Ridge

10AM Coffee with Councilors @ Golden Community Center

10AM-2PM Touring the Rails Saturdays @ Colorado Railroad Museum
10AM-3PM Saturday Train Rides @ Colorado Railroad Museum
10AM Preschool Nature Nuts – Tree-Mendous Trees @ Lookout Mountain Nature Center
10AM-12PM Breakfast Burritos @ The Golden Mill
10AM-3PM Brunch at the Rose @ Buffalo Rose

10AM-2PM Homestead Open House @ Golden History Park
10:15AM Family Time @ Golden Library
11AM Preschool Nature Nuts – Tree-Mendous Trees @ Lookout Mountain Nature Center
12-12:30PM Natural Tips to Support Healthy Sleep @ Natural Grocers
1PM Wild West Pub Crawl
1-3PM PAWS for Reading @ Golden Library
1-2:30PM Dungeons & Dragons for Beginners (Virtual)
1-4PM Mineral ID Day @ Mines Museum
3:30-5PM Dungeons & Dragons for Advanced Players (Virtual)

5-8:30PM Golden Super Cruise @ South Golden Road
7PM Golden Ghosts and Spirits Tour

SEE THE COMPLETE CALENDAR OF EVENTS.

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LIVE MUSIC

11AM-2PM Southside Mike @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
11:30AM Derek Dhames @ Tributary Food Hall
1PM Rick Lewis Project @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
4-8PM Parkside @ Wrigley’s
5-8PM Live Music @ Eddy Taproom
5:30-8:30PM The Copper Children @ Goosetown Station

5:30-7:30PM Kenny Lee Young @ Morris & Mae
6PM Junkyard Dawgs @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern

GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT

*1100 Block of Washington Avenue – enlarge*

It’s time for another episode of DATE THAT PHOTO! This game is played by identifying landmarks that have changed or not yet been built. I use those changes to identify the earliest and latest years that the picture could have been taken.

The streetscape project has been completed. You can see this by the row of young trees lining the street, by the planter box at the corner of 11th and Washington, and the change from diagonal parking to parallel parking.

*Before (left) and After (right) the streetscape. Notice how the level of the street has been leveled up to make the curbs a uniform distance from the street – enlarge*

A subtler change from that project was the leveling of the street. Prior to the streetscape, there were sections of the sidewalk that were significantly higher than the street. The streetscape eliminated those irregularities to give us curbs of uniform height.

The streetscape was constructed during 1992 and our first full summer with a “scaped” street was 1993. So this photo was taken no earlier than 1993.

*The sign saying “Chinese Restaurant” has disappeared behind another, newer building – enlarge*

The second point is the sign saying “Chinese Restaurant” on the right side of the image. That sign was no longer visible after the Frontier building was constructed in the year 2000.

*Before (left) – The old Ford dealership building was still on the northwest corner of 11th and Washington. After (right) – The Golden Hotel has appeared in its place – enlarge*

Likewise, the Golden Hotel doesn’t appear in the image, and it was also built in the year 2000. Based on those two missing buildings, the photo was taken before the year 2000.

Clear Creek Commons–the senior apartment building on the northeast corner of 11th and Washington–is also missing, but that was built in 2003, so it doesn’t help narrow the time range.

Based on the streetscape and Golden Hotel/Frontier building, the photo was taken between 1993 and 2000.

One last point: I’m not sure the Visitors Center has been built, but I can’t see that corner well enough to say that with confidence. It was built in 1997, so if it isn’t there, that narrows the range still more, to 1993 and 1997.

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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