What’s Happening in Golden Today?
8:30-9:30AM Power Training (Virtual)
9-10:30AM Golden Elf Academy @ Golden Mill
9:30-11:30AM Full Walking Tour @ Dinosaur Ridge (except 12/25)
10AM-3PM Brunch at the Rose @ Buffalo Rose
12-5PM Holiday Art Market @ Foothills Art Center
The annual Holiday Art Market (HART) at Foothills Art Center in Golden, CO is a premier holiday venue for fabulous fine art and craft made in Colorado. Visitors are immersed in a unique holiday marketplace featuring an array of handmade gifts for everyone on their holiday gift giving list. Over 100 Colorado artists offer ceramics, fiber, glass, jewelry, paintings, woodworking, photography and much more. Plus, your purchases of these one-of-a-kind treasure helps support both local artists and Foothills Art Center! Admission and activities are free (donations accepted). 303-279-3922. Visit www.foothillsartcenter.org.
12PM 4th Annual Holiday Market @ Mountain Toad
1-3PM Advent Festival @ First United Methodist Church (map)
You are invited to an Advent Festival with crafts, carols, ornament-making, cupcake-decorating, a participatory play, hot cocoa and balloons. It will be held at the Fellowship Hall. Free. RSVP Christina Bryan 303-359-1878 or christina.bryan@colorado.edu. More information
2PM A Christmas Story @ Miners Alley Playhouse
2-6PM Holiday Shakedown Street Art Market @ Over Yonder
2PM CSM Philharmonic Orchestra Fall Concert @ Green Center
Masakazu Ito – Music Director and Conductor
Kirsten Carpenter – Guest Soprano
W.A. Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro Overture
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 2
Benjamin Britten: Five Courtly Dances from Gloriana
Manuel de Falla: El Amor Brujo
There are no tickets, and admission is free. More information
Live Music
11AM-2PM Will Whalen @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
12PM Colorado Blues Society IBC Send Off Party – IBC Road to Memphis @ Buffalo Rose
2-5PM Sturtz @ Golden Mill
4-7PM Kyle O’Brien @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
8PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
Golden History Moment
Oh Happy Day–the History Museum has posted another three years of Golden Transcripts! This newest batch takes us up to mid-September, 1987.
36 Years Ago
The December 4, 1986 Golden Transcript offers interesting glimpses of life in Golden in 1986.
A part-time bartender at Sam’s Land had been caught selling amphetamines at the bar and had sold alcohol to two under-aged women. In consequence, City Council handed the bar a 10-day suspension on selling liquor.
The County’s plan to expand their gravel pit in Golden Gate Canyon was complicated when a group of scientists testified that the adjacent rock was radioactive.
Robert Horton, a professional geologist with experience in uranium exploration testified that if the county began excavating gravel from this site, there is a distinct possibility that the county would be “loading radioactive gravel into trucks and spreading it all over the county.”
The Holiday Inn advertised a dance contest every Friday and Saturday night.
The home at 822 10th Street was for sale at $135,000, and the current mortgage could be assumed, with its desirable 9-1/2% interest rate.
Mesa Meadows was under construction at the time, and four companies were busily building homes on the former Foss Ranch.
Rotary Club of Golden was chartered that year, and–as one of their first fund-raisers–they had commissioned a painting by Barbara Froula called “A Visit Downtown.” They were selling prints for $20 apiece. By taking some liberties with geography, the picture showed a number of interesting Golden highlights. Many of them are now gone, including Heritage Square, the Holland House Hotel, Foss Drug, The Merc restaurant, Sportsman Barber Shop, the original Mitchell Elementary, and Steve’s Corner Western Wear store. Folk dancers in the street represent the annual Oktoberfest. The long-running Scottish Highland games were depicted by a bagpiper, and Buffalo Bill rode through downtown on a white horse.
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!
