WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
8AM Saturday Morning Run and Social Walk @ Golden History Park
10AM-3PM Brunch at the Rose @ Buffalo Rose
10AM-5PM Holiday Art Market @ Foothills Art Center
10:15AM Family Time @ Golden Library
11AM and 1PM Children’s Theater – The Story of the Nutcracker @ Miners Alley Playhouse
11AM Happy Cones @ The Golden Mill
Happy Cones will release a special Christmas edition Chocolate Cherry ice cream in a croissant cone. The croissants are made by Golden’s own Grateful Bread! Available from 11AM until they run out.
1-4PM Wild West Pub Crawl
5PM Customer Appreciation Christmas Party @ Wrigley’s
6-8:30 Holiday Lights Private Carriage Rides (ticketed event) – SOLD OUT
7:30PM The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical @ Miners Alley Performing Arts Center
7:30PM A Christmas Story @ Miners Alley Playhouse
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LIVE MUSIC
11AM-2PM Chris Koza @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
5-8PM Live Music @ Eddy Taproom
7PM Dance Machine @ Buffalo Rose (main venue)
7-10PM Chuck Fisher @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
7PM Band of Brothers @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
108 Years Ago
The December 23, 1915 Colorado Transcript reported that the Golden Pressed and Fire Brick plant, north of town, had been destroyed by fire.
The fire started at five o’clock, and so fast was the sweep of the flames that within a very few minutes the big buildings were a mass of embers. The blaze started in the engine room, as near as the night foreman, Jos. Maughan, could determine. The main fire hose was in this room, but he was unable to reach it, and the terrific wind which prevailed swept the flames to every part of the yard in an incredibly short time…. The…building was built of wood, with a corrugated iron roof. Great pieces of red-hot iron and blazing timbers were picked up and hurled in every direction by the wind and heat, and the employes of the plant were unable to do anything except stand and watch the destruction.
This was not the company’s first fire. The article recalled that the plant had previously burned in 1901. The company was originally located on 8th Street, along the Colorado Central tracks. That plant had burned in 1895.
According to Golden Rocks: The Geology and Mining History of Golden, Colorado by Donna S. Anderson and Paul B. Haseman, the company remained in operation until 1963. The location is memorialized by Brickyard Road, Brickyard Circle, and the Brickyard House.
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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