Everest Expeditions, Alcohol Server Training, and a Bad Bridge

*Golden Eye Candy – Nancy Torpey – Setting Moon – click to enlarge*

Virtual Events

6-6:55AM Virtual Dynamic Circuit
8:30-9:30AM Virtual Power Training
9AM Everest: By Those Who Were There
10:15AM Spanish Story Time with the Library
4:30-9:30PM TIPS – Alcohol Server and Selling Training

Real World Events

5-9 Golden Game Guild Meet-Up Mondays @ Golden Game Guild

Golden History Moment

Wooden bridge over the millrace, highlighted on the 1873 Birdseye View map of Golden – click to enlarge

For nearly 90 years, a millrace ran through the 9th street neighborhood, cross Washington Avenue, and terminated near the Golden Mill. Apparently, the ditch was covered with wooden planks where it crossed Washington Avenue.

104 Years Ago
The September 27, 1917 Colorado Transcript reported that a “mammoth” gravel truck had crashed through the wooden bridge and stuck in the bottom of the ditch. The piece said that the truck weighed about five tons and the cargo of crushed rock weighed another five tons. It took several hours and many men to pull the truck out of the ditch.

The article said that another truck had fallen through the same bridge a few months earlier. It concluded that the planks should be replaced with concrete.

In October, City Council voted to rebuild the bridge in concrete, and the November 8 Transcript reported that the job was done.

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!