Virtual Events
6-6:55AM Virtual Dynamic Circuit
11-11:55AM Find Your Balance
12-12:30PM Mondays with Mayor Weinberg
2-3PM Active Minds Monday – The History of Colorado
4-4:30PM Kids Martial Arts Class
Real World Events
8:30-9:30AM Virtual Power Training
9:15-9:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
10-10:55AM All Levels Yoga Virtual
10:15-10:45AM Let’s Dance @ Golden Library
5-6PM Ribbon Cutting: Allstate @ Cohen-Reed Agency (map)
Please join the Chamber in celebrating the opening of Cohen-Reed Agency.
6:30PM Historic Preservation Board Meeting @ City Hall
HPB will be consider providing a Certificate of Appropriateness for a proposed addition to 911 9th Street (map).
The owners plan a two-story addition on the back of the building. The online meeting packet is missing the attachments, but you can find them here.
Golden Optimist Bicycle Recycle Program
The Golden Optimists are responsible for many youth-oriented support programs in Golden, including an annual school supply drive, supporting the high school’s forensics club, and sponsoring an oratorical contest for Golden high School students.
Their largest and best-known program is the Bicycle Recycle shop. This program accepts donated bicycles, fixes them, and redistributes them. They also work with Connections Learning Center (a Jeffco R1 school) to teach bicycle repair skills. Over the past 25 years, they have fixed and donated thousands of bikes to people who need them.
The Optimists are looking for three new board members. They seek individuals with strong leadership skills, energy, and a passion for helping others. If this sounds like you, please complete their application, and you’ll hear from a current board member shortly!
Golden History Moment
Since the Historic Preservation Board is reviewing a case concerning 911 9th Street, I thought I’d re-run this article about some of Golden’s historic grocery stores. 911 9th Street makes a brief appearance as a neighborhood store. This article originally ran in May of 2020.
Grocery stores have grown a lot over the years. When Golden was built, beginning in 1859, there were no stores devoted exclusively to groceries; food was only one of several categories of things sold by most stores.
In the late 19th century, stores began to specialize more. Golden was the trading center for a large area of farms and ranches, so it supported several stores that sold groceries exclusively. Many of the stores along Washington Avenue were used as groceries at one time or another.
The building at 11th and Washington, which served as Woods’ Mortuary for more than a century, was Elmus Smith’s Grocery Store in the 1880s. The Stewart Block at 10th and Washington was built as a grocery store and housed first Nankivell and Jones, then Parfet’s Grocery, then Stewart’s Grocery.
Meyer’s Market, Reets & Riley Groceries (1880s) Soren Sorenson’s Grocery (1908-1920), the Market Basket (1920s), and Chuck’s Market (1936-53) have all occupied 1214 Washington Avenue, which is now home to a real estate office. The Red and White Grocery Store operated at 1213 Washington (now Toad & Co.) from 1930-the 1955. The Abejas building (807 13th Street) was a Piggly Wiggly from the mid-40s through the mid-50s, then became the Golden Gate Market for another 15 years.
The Loveland Block (now the Old Capitol Grill) was a grocery store from the 1860s until 1978. It began as Loveland’s Store, was later Koenig’s, and then became the Golden Mercantile.
There were also many small neighborhood groceries scattered around town. There was a grocery at 150 10th Street in the Goosetown Neighborhood: it operated from the 1920s through the mid-40s The building at 911 9th St. served as Spear’s Grocery, Ben’s Grocery, and George’s Grocery during the ’40s and ’50s. Pudge’s Cash Grocery operated at 417 Washington in the 1940s. Heatley Groceries was at 3rd and Ford. There was a store at 10th and Ford that operated as Finger Grocery, Maxwell Grocery, and Swafford Grocery from the 1940s until 1960, when Coors Porcelain acquired the land to build a parking lot.
The south end of town had the “Tourist Park Grocery” at 22nd and Ford. The building at 2101 Ford St. served as Al’s Grocery, Menaugh Grocery, Castle Rock Grocery, and Evans’ Grocery from the ’30s through the ’60s.
In all of these stores, a grocer would have greeted the customer and helped put together the order. Many of them accepted phone orders and provided delivery.
Supermarkets (self-serve with grocery carts) were just emerging before World War II, and took off after the war, as more people had cars and they wanted to buy food in bulk to last for several days or weeks. Refrigerators also became wide-spread after the war, which helped households store food for longer periods.
Safeway came to town in the 1930s. It started on Washington Avenue, with a more traditionally scaled store, but built a larger, “supermarket” style store after the war. King Soopers had a store here, at 19th and Jackson, from 1966 to 1976, and then returned with a much bigger store in 1998.
While it’s easy to romanticize the idea of small, neighborhood grocery stores, they did have disadvantages. Their selection was poorer, of course, and their prices higher. They also didn’t have the high turnover rate that enabled them to maintain reliably fresh dairy and produce.
Golden Future Moments:
Preview of August Events
1
5-6PM Ribbon Cutting: Allstate @ Cohen-Reed Agency
6:30PM Historic Preservation Board Meeting @ City Hall
2
10-10:45AM Storybook Tour @ Colorado Railroad Museum
1-3PM Hexie Ladies @ Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
5-8PM National Night Out @ Parfet Park
5:30-7:30PM Textile Society @ Golden Library
3
11:30-12:45PM Community Development Committee @ Golden Visitors Center
6:30PM Planning Commission Meeting @ City Hall
4
9AM Public Art Commission Meeting @ City Hall
5-9PM Brews for a Cause @ Cannonball Creek Brewing
6-7PM Ukulele Thursdays @ Golden Library
7:30PM HAIR Opens @ Miners Alley Playhouse
5
8-9AM Morning StArt: An Artist Coffee Meetup with Diana Fritzler
6-8PM Teen After Hours: Toppings Trivia @ Golden Library
7-8:30PM Colorado Rails and Cocktails @ Colorado Railroad Museum
6
9:30AM-12PM Walk With a Geologist @ Dinosaur Ridge
10AM Coffee With Councilors @ Ulysses Park
10-10:30AM Preschool Nature Nuts @ Lookout Mountain Nature Center
12-12:30PM Everyday Essential Oils for Health @ Natural Grocers
1-2:30PM Virtual: Dungeons & Dragons for Beginners
3:30-5PM Virtual: Dungeons & Dragons for Advanced Players
5-8:30PM Golden Super Cruise
7
8AM New and Prospective Member Hike @ Apex Trail
11:30AM-12:30PM Yogi Book Club @ Pranatonic
3-4PM Wordplay Writing Workshop @ Golden Library
8
6:30PM GURA Board Meeting @ City Hall
9
TriceraTOTs
4:30-5:30PM Teen Advisory Board @ Golden Library
5PM VIBE@Five @ Cheese Ranch Deli
6:30PM City Council Regular Business Meeting @ City Hall
8PM Wildland Firefighters Benefit @ Buffalo Rose
10
10:15-10:45AM Outdoor Story Time @ Golden History Park
10:30AM-12PM Hands-on Activities @ Golden History Museum & Park
3-4:15PM Medicare Basics
11
6:30PM Economic Development Commission Meeting
7:36PM Full Moon
12
10-11:30AM NREL – Virtual Public Campus Experience
5-9PM Bike Night @ Avalanche Harley Davidson
7PM Movies & Music in the Park – The Princess Bride @ Parfet Park
8:30PM Outdoor Movie Night – Secretariat @ Horse Protection League
13
9-5PM Rail Fair & Steamup with Train Ride @ Colorado Railroad Museum
9:30AM-4PM Pumpkin Time Machine Applique @ Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
9:30AM-12PM Walk With a Geologist @ Triceratops Trail
10AM-2PM Homestead Open House @ Golden History Park
12-12:30PM Smoothie Bowls @ Natural Grocers
14
2-4PM Sunday at the Museum @ Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
15
6:30PM Downtown Development Authority Meeting @ City Hall
16
First Day of School – Jeffco Public Schools
8-9AM What’s Brewing Golden @ Golden Hotel
10-11AM Story Time and Craft @ Colorado Railroad Museum
1-3PM Crazy Quilt Sisters @ Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
2:30PM Local Licensing Authority Meeting @ City Hall
6-7PM Book Discussion Group @ Golden Library
17
7:30-9AM Citizen Budget Advisory Committee Meeting @ City Hall
3-7PM Beer and Cupcake Pairing @ Golden City Brewery
5-6PM Arte de mi Corazón
6:30PM Planning Commission Study Session @ City Hall
18
7:30AM Golden Young Professionals Monthly Membership Meeting @ Golden Visitors Center
6-7PM Talon Talk @ Lookout Mountain Nature Center
7PM Parks, Recreation and Museums Advisory Board Meeting @ City Hall
19
10AM-12PM Rocky Mountain Quilt Study Group @ Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
20
8AM-2PM Trash to Treasures Garage Sale @ Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
9:30AM-12PM Walk With a Geologist @ Dinosaur Ridge
10AM-5PM Golden Fine Arts Festival @ 11th Street
21
10AM-5PM Golden Fine Arts Festival @ 11th Street
11:30AM-12:30PM Yogi Book Club @ Pranatonic
2:30-4:30PM Textile Society @ Golden Library
22
Community Center Closed – Annual Maintenance Week, August 22-28
23
12-1:30PM Lunch ‘n Learn @ Golden Library
1:30PM Triad @ Jeffco District Attorney’s Office
2-4PM Google Docs @ Golden Library
6:30PM City Council Regular Business Meeting @ City Hall
24
6PM Community Sustainability Advisory Board @ City Hall
25
9:30AM-4PM Pumpkin Time Machine Applique @ Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
11:30AM-1PM Library for All @ Golden Library
4-7PM Evening at the Museum @ Golden History Museum
6PM Mobility & Transportation Advisory Board Meeting @ City Hall
27
10AM-4PM Painting Summer Scenes in Watercolor @ Foothills Art Center
28
8AM Gran Fondo @ Parfet Park
30
5:30-9PM The Golden Bicycle Cruise @ Armory Parking Garage
31
12-1PM Golden Wealth Solutions – Ask the Expert
Recurring Events:
Daily
Mondays
6-6:55AM Virtual Dynamic Circuit
8:30-9:30AM Virtual Power Training
9:15-9:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
10-10:55AM All Levels Yoga Virtual
10:15-10:45AM Let’s Dance @ Golden Library
11-11:55AM Find Your Balance
12-12:30PM Mondays with Mayor Weinberg
2-3PM Virtual: Active Minds Monday (every other Monday)
4-4:30PM Kids Martial Arts Class
Tuesdays
9-9:55AM Silver Sneakers Classic
9-10AM Zumba
9:15-9:45AM Baby Time @ Golden Library
10:15-10:45AM Preschool Time @ Golden Library
11-11:55AM HIIT & Sculpt
12-12:55PM All Levels Yoga Virtual
6-8PM Toad Trivia Tuesdays @ Mountain Toad Brewing (first and third Tuesdays)
6:30-8:30PM Team Trivia Tuesdays @ Buffalo Rose
6:30-8:30PM Trivia Tuesdays @ Golden Mill
7PM Trivia Night @ the Ace
7-9PM Team Trivia Night @ Tributary Food Hall
Wednesdays
6-6:55AM Cardio Lift Interval
8-8:55AM Tai Chi
8:30-9:30AM Virtual Power Training
9AM Golden Walks – Wednesday Morning Celebrating Life @ Golden Library
10-10:55AM All Levels Yoga
11-11:55AM Find Your Balance
3-5PM Hard Times Writing Workshop
5-8PM Steak Night @ Barrels & Bottles Camp George West
6PM Pong Night @ Coda Brewing
7PM Trivia Night @ Trailhead Taphouse
Thursdays
8-10AM DeLong Park Weedbusters @ DeLong Park
9-9:55AM Silver Sneakers Classic
9-10AM Zumba
9:15-9:45AM Baby Time @ Golden Library
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
11-11:55AM HIIT & Sculpt
11AM-12:30PM Golden Community Table @ First United Methodist Church
6-7PM Cycling
6PM Run Club @ Runners Roost
7:30PM HAIR @ Miners Alley Playhouse
Fridays
6-6:55AM Virtual HIIT
8:30-9:30AM Virtual Power Training
9-9:55AM Strength and Cardio
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
11AM-12PM Kimodo for Balance
12-12:55PM All Levels Yoga
1-1:55PM Chair Yoga
1-2PM The Friday Tour @ Colorado Railroad Museum
3PM Vaccine, License & Microchip Clinic @ Foothills Animal Shelter
7:30PM HAIR @ Miners Alley Playhouse
Saturdays
8AM-1PM Golden Farmers Market @ Golden Library west parking lot
9-10AM Zumba
10AM-3PM Brunch at the Rose @ Buffalo Rose
10AM-3PM Saturday Train Rides @ Colorado Railroad Museum
10:15AM Family Time @ Golden Library
7:30PM HAIR @ Miners Alley Playhouse
Sundays
9AM Keg Konditioning @ Golden Mill
9-10:15AM Align and Flow
9:30-11:30AM Full Walking Tour @ Dinosaur Ridge
10AM-3PM Brunch at the Rose @ Buffalo Rose
2PM HAIR @ Miners Alley Playhouse
