The full moon will rise at 8:37 this evening and set at 6:10 tomorrow morning.
Free COVID Vaccine Clinic
8AM-2PM COVID Vaccine Clinic at Matthews/Winters Park, 1103 Highway 93, Golden (map)
Vaccines are free, and no insurance, ID, or appointment are required to get vaccinated. More information
Virtual Events
6-6:55AM Virtual HIIT
8:30-9:30AM Virtual Power Training
10:30-11:15AM Play and Learn with the Library
11AM-12PM All Levels Yoga Virtual
1:30-2:30PM Pet Show and Tell: Dogs with Jobs
4-5PM Friday Crafternoons with the Library – God’s eye/Ojo de Dios
Real World Events
1-2PM The Friday Tour @ Colorado Railroad Museum
3PM Vaccine, License & Microchip Clinic @ Foothills Animal Shelter
6-8PM Community Friday Night @ Pranatonic (most Fridays)
4-8PM Art Rocks w/ Jesse Crock @ Goosetown Station
Please note this is first come first served event- doors open at 4 PM. Live painting and music starts at 5 PM. There will be 3 different drawings for 3 original paintings by Jesse Crock while the Gnarbillys keep rocking on the stage. Drawing ticket pricing $5/ticket, $20/5 tickets- the more tickets you have the higher chance you have to win! Please bring cash to purchase your drawing tickets (we do not accept cash at the bar to pay for the refreshments- you can only purchase drawing tickets with cash- thank you in advance). Come early to get the best seat in the house- doors open at 4pm.
7:30PM The Treasurer @ Miners Alley Playhouse
By Max Posner – Directed by John Moore
Join a Denver man known only as ‘The Son’ on his wild bike ride to hell in one of the most-acclaimed Off-Broadway plays of 2017. We’d all like to believe that when the time comes to step up and care for our aging parents, we’ll be up to the responsibility. But what if that mother abandoned you when you were 13, and your inheritance now is the financial and emotional burden that comes with her return to your life? The Treasurer is a non-stop, darkly funny and sharply intimate story that explores the hell of a guilty conscience. Tickets Generously sponsored by Isabelle Clark & June Travis.
LIVE MUSIC:
4PM Art Rocks w/Matt Weatherbee & the Gnarbillys + Jesse Crock @ Goosetown Station
5PM Dirty Side Down @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
6PM Jewel and the Rough @ Wrigley’s
8PM 6 Million Dollar Band @ Buffalo Rose (main venue)
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
Golden History Moment
For a historian wanting to learn about Golden’s early businesses, the first decade of the 20th century was a golden age. Prior to that time, the Transcript consisted mostly of dense text in tiny fonts. In the early 1900s, display ads were assuming a bigger role in the paper. By the 19-teens, the paper was choked with national (non-local) business advertising–particularly patent medicines–but in 1903 many Golden businesses were advertising in the Transcript.
The July 23rd, 1903 Colorado Transcript is full of ads for merchants I’ve written about during the past year of pandemic-inspired history articles. In 1903, Ford Street had some substantial commercial buildings, almost rivaling Washington Avenue as a shopping district.
Ford St.
1 – Sarell Hardware was on Ford Street at that time. They later moved to Washington Avenue. In the 1940s, that business was purchased by Joe & Ruby Meyer and is now Meyer Hardware.
2 – Fromhart & Thomas Blacksmithing & Wagon Repairing stood on the southeast corner of 12th & Ford.
3 – The Golden Milling Company (“A Flour of Quality”) was precisely where the Golden Mill stands today, on Ford Street at Clear Creek.
Washington Avenue
4 – Soren Sorenson’s Grocery, Wade Clothing, and O.T. Ellis were all located in the Opera House Block (now Ace Hi Tavern).
5 – Brown’s Dry Goods (“Muslin Underwear”) was located in the Harrison Block, now Del’s Tonsorial Parlor.
6 – R. Broad Jr.‘s store occupied the Everett Block at 12th and Washington–now Goozell Yogurt.
7 – The Woods-Rubey Bank was on the southeast corner of 12th and Washington–now Golden Goods toy store.
8 – Linder Hardware and Gallinger-Root Drug Co. were located in the Linder Block on the northeast corner of 13th and Washington
9 – Koenig Mercantile was in the Loveland Building at 12th and Washington–now the Old Capitol Grill.
10 – The Big Red Boot occupied a wooden building in the spot now occupied by Baby Doe’s Clothing.
11 – The Osborne Market was at 1106 Washington, now a florist shop and antique store.
Other Locations
Rock Flour Mills – 9th and Cheyenne.
Zilligan & Olmsted – The name (C.& S. Market) indicates that this business was probably in the Goosetown neighborhood, near the roundhouse and other railroad buildings. C.&S. stood for Colorado & Southern–the railroad that served Golden at that time.
Thanks to the Golden History Museum for funding the online collection of historic newspapers.
