WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
2:16AM Full Moon
8:30-9:30AM Power Training (Virtual)
9:15-9:45AM Let’s Dance @ Golden Library
10-10:55AM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
10AM and 1PM Wild West Walking Tour
10AM and 1PM Wild West Short Tour
12-12:30PM Mondays with the Mayor (Virtual)
4-5PM LEGO Build and Play @ Golden Library
6-7:30PM Golden Anti-Racism Collective Book and Media Group @ Golden Library
We’ll meet in person with a Zoom login option for anyone interested. We’ll discuss Emmanuel Acho’s Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man. If you prefer, you can watch the videos. It’s ok if you haven’t read a book – Everyone is welcome! Feel free to bring your kids with you, too! Zoom Link More information
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CITY MEETING
6PM Mobility and Transportation Advisory Board @ Public Works Building (map)
MTAB will discuss a proposal by the Sustainability Board to begin charging a fee at the public charging stations for electric vehicles. They will also discuss “public permit area.” No other details are included in the meeting packet. The meeting will not be broadcast live, since it is not taking place in City Hall.
TRIVIA
7-8PM Colorado Trivia League @ Morris & Mae
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
121 Years Ago
The Globe says George Parfet’s elegant new house looms up “like a castle on Ford street.” We do not know as a castle on Ford street would loom up differently than one elsewhere in our beautiful city, but George is going to have a daisy of a house all the same, by far the best and most costly home so far erected in Golden. It is two stories high above a high basement, of buff pressed brick so extensively manufactured by the Golden Pressed Brick Company, and will be modern in every detail.
Colorado Transcript – November 27, 1902
The Parfet house, built at 19th and Ford in 1902, was a showplace of the community for many years. The family’s yard stretched all the way down to Kinney Run at the bottom of the hill.
64 Years Ago
The area began to change in 1959. The City decided to “underground” Kinney Run and use that valley to extend Jackson Street. The new roadway was zoned for commercial development, so the Parfets turned the grassy backyard into a commercial lot and leased it to King Soopers.
46 Years Ago
When King Soopers withdrew from Golden, the building became a bank. Downtown parking had been so tight that the bank wanted a REALLY BIG parking lot, so in 1977 the Parfet house was demolished.
THE PARFET HOUSE was fast disappearing at 19th and Ford Streets this week–another Golden landmark which has left the Golden scene….
Golden Transcript – May 5, 1977
5 Years Ago
That corner remained a parking lot for more than 40 years, but in 2018, twelve town homes were built there.
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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