What’s Happening in Golden Today?
10AM-3PM Brunch at the Rose @ Buffalo Rose
10AM-noon Breakfast Burritos @ The Golden Mill
10AM Wild West Short Tour
11AM CSM Softball – Orediggers vs. CSU Pueblo @ Joe Coors, Jr. Softball Field
12-2PM Full Walking Tour @ Dinosaur Ridge
12-5PM Final Day for the Current Exhibits @ Foothills Art Center
For 54 years, Foothills Art Center has exhibited a wide variety of art and artists. Today will be the final day to see exhibits at the 809 15th Street location. Their galleries at the Astor House will open in late summer. Come get a last look at the old exhibit spaces–they’re open today from 12 till 5PM!
1PM CSM Softball – Orediggers vs. CSU Pueblo @ Joe Coors, Jr. Softball Field
Live Music
10AM-1PM DJ Eva – Outlaw Country Music @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
4-7PM Hank Cramer @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
4-7PM YepOK @ Over Yonder
1-6PM Colorado Blues Society Members Choice Awards @ Buffalo Rose
8PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
Golden History Moment
121 Years Ago
In 1902, the front range (and Golden along with it) was in the throes of oil fever. Oil had been discovered the previous year in the Boulder area, and people were optimistic that more would be forthcoming. Oil speculators frantically sought investors to help fund oil exploration, and Golden residents were excited at the prospect of oil-borne prosperity.
Several wells were sunk in the Golden area, including one in Golden Gate Canyon, another on the Churches Ranch, just north of North Table Mountain, one on the Welch Ranch (approximate area of Colorado Mills Mall), one on the east side of North Table Mountain, one near the Church Brick Yards (west of 93, north of Golden Gate Canyon Road), and one two miles east of Golden on the Middle Golden Road (32nd Street).
By the end of the year, hope was fading for the Golden-area wells.
We have now waited since March to witness the apotheosis (that’s what we call it) of the Golden Basin Oil Co.; not one thimbleful of oil…has been struck.
Colorado Transcript, October 8, 1902
Oil frenzy flared a few more times after that, but by about 1905 the dreams of Golden as an oil town had faded away.
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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