Farmers Market, Yoga, Log Cabins, and The Bomb

*Golden Eye Candy by Chris Davell – Waning Moon Setting – Click to enlarge*

Public Health References
CDC * Colorado * Jefferson County * City of Golden

JCPHD updates these numbers Monday through Friday at about 3 PM. Here’s the most recent Coronavirus report from Jeffco Public Health’s Case Summary Page:

Jefferson County mask rule: masks must be worn both indoors and outdoors in public spaces where 6 feet distance cannot be maintained. This matches Golden’s requirement. The rest of the state requires masks only indoors. The Safer at Home and in the Vast, Great Outdoors protocol is in effect statewide. City and County fire restrictions are in place.

Real Life Golden

8AM-1PM Golden Farmers Market
9AM Vinyasa Yoga in Lions Park with Gabriela Ferrat
9AM Yoga in Parfet Park with Pranatonic
10AM-2PM Homestead Open House at the Golden History Park
11AM Wild West Pub Crawl Tour
12PM Pleasant View Fire Department Fundraiser – Barrels and Bottles Brewery at Camp George West (map)
5PM Wild West Walking Tour

Live Music:
4PM Funk It Up at Wrigley’s
6PM Big Hooray Bluegrass at Ace Hi Tavern
6PM Brian Hornbuckle Band at Dirty Dogs Roadhouse

Golden History Moment

Thursday August 6th was the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. I wondered what the Colorado Transcript had to say about that momentous event. It was probably hard to know what to say: the Manhattan Project had been conducted in such secrecy that Americans hadn’t even known we were making such a weapon.

The Transcript decided to interview Melville Coolbaugh, who was then-President of the Colorado School of Mines. Dr. Coolbaugh was “convinced that these atomic bombs will not only bring a speedy termination to World War II but that these forces will prove of inestimable value to the whole human race.”

*Coors Porcelain Plant – Click to enlarge*

The article included a photo of Coors Porcelain Plant, which they said had been involved in the project, as well as a picture of “H. W. Ryland – Scientist, Engineer, and Manager of the Coors Porcelain Plant at Golden, manufacturing porcelain ware for scientific and commercial uses.”

*Harold Ryland – Plant Manager of Coors Porcelain and Mayor of Golden from 1939-1945 – Golden History Museum Collection – Click to enlarge*

The article states that “The complete story will not be released until Japan has folded up, a reign of peace has been established, and these forces shall have been converted to peaceful pursuits.”

*Advertisements from the August 9, 1945 Colorado Transcript – Click to enlarge*

Much of the rest of the paper focused on the upcoming “Golden Days” festival. Many of the display ads indicated wartime concerns, such as a tin can drive, a wastepaper drive, and the lack of new cars.

*Headlines from the August 16, 1945 Colorado Transcript*

The tone was less tentative in the next issue of the Transcript. President Truman had dropped the second bomb on Nagasaki, the Japanese had surrendered, and the War was over. People still didn’t know much about the bomb or its long-term implications, but they knew that our troops would be coming home and that was the most important thing for the time being.

Many thanks to the Golden History Museum for providing the online cache of historic Transcripts, and many thanks to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866!