Leadership Golden’s 2022 -23 Class
Begins this Fall.
Applications are open!
The Leadership Golden program, in its 35th year, is a free series of ten evening seminars spanning a nine-month period. These seminars facilitate opportunities for participants to increase their knowledge of the relationships between Golden’s government, education, arts, business, and the community of Golden. The program educates emerging leaders and volunteers to the realities, opportunities and challenges in Golden. To learn more and for application details go to www.LeadershipGolden.org. Apply now!
Questions: Call Jeff Fox at 720-891-5751
Virtual Events
6-6:55AM Virtual Dynamic Circuit
8:30-9:30AM Virtual Power Training
9AM Tickets go on sale for the Golden Summer Jam
10-10:55AM All Levels Yoga Virtual
11-11:55AM Find Your Balance
12-12:30PM Mondays with Mayor Weinberg
1-3PM Virtual/Call-In: Chaos Control: Become a Dungeons & Dragons Master
2-3PM Active Minds Monday: Music of the Birds and Bees
4-4:30PM Kids Martial Arts Class
6-7:30PM Virtual: Teen Short Story Writing Camp
Real World Events
9:15-9:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
10:15-10:45AM Let’s Dance @ Golden Library
6-9PM Golden Game Guild Meet-Up Mondays @ Golden Game Guild
6:30PM Historic Preservation Board Meeting @ City Hall
HPB will “consider a certificate of design review and a finding of compatibility for a façade change” for 1104/1106 Washington Avenue. This building, which currently houses the florist shop and antique store, has been purchased by the same company that’s redeveloping the mortuary next door. Despite its modern look, this is one of the oldest buildings downtown. According to the meeting packet, it was built in 1875. In 1960, the Victorian facade was replaced with one of plain, modern brick. The new owners plan to change it back to a more Victorian look.
While not mentioned in the staff memo, it does include a drawing of a roof deck on the Miners Alley side of the building.
Golden History Moment
59 Years Ago
The June 6, 1963 Colorado Transcript included an editorial titled “No ‘Second Chance’ Deserved or Given.” The Transcript staff applauded Golden City Council for denying renewal of a 3.2 beer license for Everett Bunzel’s Golden Bowl. Until 1987, Colorado allowed youths aged 18-21 to buy the lower-strength beer. The Golden Bowl was known for selling it to excess.
Everett, Bunzel built the Golden Bowl Bowling Alley at 24th and Ford. The new business celebrated their Grand Opening on November 12, 1955. The Golden Chamber held a ribbon-cutting and the event was attended by the mayor, a county commissioner, the chamber president, the president of the school of Mines, the Coors Sales Manager, and an executive from the Brunswick (bowling) corporation.
The bowling alley did very well. Bowling was tremendously popular in the 1950s (and 60s), and there were bowling leagues at all times of the day. The new Golden High School was only a block away, so there were high school leagues as well.
The bowling alley had a license to sell 3.2 beer. In 1961, Bunzel built a significant addition, which included 12 more lanes and a lounge area on the east end. After that, things took a sudden and dramatic turn for the worse.
The new lounge attracted crowds of “youths.” Neighbors said the youths were loud and rude, that they commonly had fights in the street, threw cans and bottles into nearby lawns, vomited, passed out, and used foul language. They also used East Street for drag racing. The Golden Police were of little help, because at that time they had only two officers per shift, and they couldn’t spend all their time hanging around the bowling alley.
The neighbors claimed that this was all Bunzel’s fault, because he was serving beer to under-aged teenagers. Bunzel denied serving minors and said that anyplace near a high school was going to attract that kind of behavior.
The City listened to the neighbors and revoked Bunzel’s 3.2 beer license. Furious, he took the city to court, where they won. He continued to take them to court. This went on for several years, and wound up in the State Supreme Court. The Supremes declared that Golden had been out of bounds by revoking the license. By that time, though, the license had expired, so the City simply didn’t renew it.
Bunzel tried several approaches, including bringing in an independent businessman to run the lounge and asking to go back to selling beer only in the bowling alley. Council did not relent. In 1963, Bunzel sued the City and tried to get a court to impose fines and jail time on the individual Councilors.
Bunzel never regained his beer license, but a subsequent owner was granted the right to sell 3.2% beer in August of 1970. Golden Bowl closed in 2014 and was replaced by Natural Grocers.
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!
