Clouds, Hiking, Music, and Coors Visitors

*Golden Eye Candy – Greg Poulos – Both Table Mountains Emerging from the Clouds – click to enlarge*

Real World Events

8AM New and Prospective Member Hike @ Apex Trail
10AM-3PM Brunch at the Rose @ Buffalo Rose
12PM Cannonball Creek 9th Anniversary Party

Live Music

2-4PM The One & Only Jon Ham @ Cannonball Creek
3-6PM Steven Huntley @ Over Yonder
4-7PM Mike Heuer @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
8PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern

Golden History Moment

*Coors main parking lot, at the east end of 12th Street* – Google satellite image

47 Years Ago
The January 23, 1975 Golden Transcript reported that Coors was looking for solutions to their parking problem.

Tourists by the thousands flock to the Golden brewery during the summers to take the company’s tour and sip a little free beer. And the firm’s main parking lot, which also must serve the employees, is getting too crowded.

“Last summer we had to turn literally thousands of people away,” the spokesman said. “The traffic was so bad it wasn’t even safe.”

Coors was considering having tourists park at their property on McIntyre Street. The downtown merchants didn’t like that idea because Coors visitors brought a lot of business to the downtown stores and restaurants.

*St. Joseph Catholic church demolition – Golden Transcript* – July 23, 1973 – click to enlarge

The company had purchased the block between Ford and East, 13th and 14th Streets several years earlier. That block had held the Catholic church and Duvall-Davison lumber yard since the turn of the century, but both were torn down in 1973.

*Golden Daily Transcript* – July 7, 1975

The company decided to use the 13th and Ford block. They hired parking lot attendants and bought vans to bring their visitors from the new parking lot to the tour entrance. They considered it an experiment, but by July they thought it was working well.

*Coors visitor lot at 13th and Ford – Google satellite images*

Apparently the system remained satisfactory, since–during non-COVID times–Coors is still using that lot and shuttling visitors to the tour entrance. For the past several years, Coors has driven their visitors through downtown, to show them our stores and restaurants.

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!