WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
9AM Public Art Commission Meeting @ City Hall
The PAC will discuss plans to repeat last year’s Itty Bitty Art project. This year the projects will be distributed around Parfet Park, and possibly on the grounds of the Mountaineering Center across the street. They also plan to commission one large piece of art this year. They recently did a survey of possible sites, and are likely to place the new piece in Lions park on either the north or south side of 10th Street. They are also considering acquisition of some medium-sized art pieces, which could be distributed amongst the neighborhood parks.
They will review three proposals from local groups and individuals. The first describes a bronze statue honoring past and present Golden firefighters. The second proposes a statue of Gudy Gaskill, a local woman who helped found the Colorado Trail. The third proposal describes a series of boxes to be used as Little Free Art Libraries. Each library would be painted with custom artwork.
9-9:55AM Silver Sneakers Classic (Virtual)
9:15-9:45AM Baby Time @ Golden Library
8:30-9:30AM Golden Women in Business Book Club @ Cafe 13
10AM Wild West Walking History Tour
10-10:30AM Call In: Mid-Morning Meditation (Virtual)
10-10:55AM Chair Yoga (Virtual)
10-11:30PM Everything Dinosaur Lecture: Non-Dinosaur Archosaurs @ Dinosaur Ridge Discovery Center
11AM-9:30PM Percentage Day (benefiting the Golden Civic Foundation) @ The Sherpa House
12PM CSM Softball – Orediggers vs. MSU Denver @ Joe Coors, Jr. Softball Field
2PM CSM Softball – Orediggers vs. MSU Denver @ Joe Coors, Jr. Softball Field
3-9PM Cheese Night with Cheese Ranch @ Mountain Toad
4PM Wild West Short Tour
6-7PM Ukulele Thursdays @ Golden Library
6PM Run Club @ Runners Roost
6PM Parks, Recreation and Museums Advisory Board Meeting @ The Bachman Property (map)
The Parks Board will tour the Bachman property, which will be Golden’s next major park.
6:30-7:30PM Mappy Hour – Colorado Hiking Trails @ American Mountaineering Center
Classic Colorado Hikes: Lakes, Loops and High Ridge Traverses – Dr. Jon Kedrowski will discuss exploring the mountains and high elevation lakes of Colorado. The discussion will focus on trip planning, weather and climate conditions and backcountry safety. Our host will highlight some of Colorado’s most scenic lakes, high mountain peaks, swimming spots and even “Wild Ice” skating.
Jon will also touch on his recent expeditions to both Everest and Winter K2. He will discuss the strategy, risk management, and weather considerations for climbing these 8000m giants and how you can get involved in visiting the Himalayas and Karakoram with his company, Dr. Jon’s Adventures.
7:30PM I Hate Hamlet @ Miners Alley Playhouse
LIVE MUSIC
5-8PM Kory Montgomery @ Golden Mill
5-8PM Magoo the Band @ Goosetown Station
5-8PM Teague Starbuck @ Mountain Toad
6-9PM Mad Dog Blues Duo @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
6PM Elle Michelle’s Grateful Holler @ New Terrain Brewing
6-8PM Spoccer @ Over Yonder
8PM Karaoke @ Rock Rest Lodge
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
90 Years Ago
Golden was beyond excited in April of 1933. Prohibition was over and Coors was about to start shipping beer again. To many Golden families, this meant the worst of the Depression was over too.
Ho! Hum! Another election day has come and gone, but “when de we get beer” continues to be the question of the hour.
Colorado Transcript – April 6, 1933
The April 6, 1933 Colorado Transcript reported that at one minute after midnight on Friday April 7th, a “train of 21 refrigerator cars, loaded to capacity with Coors’ real beer…will pull out of the yards at Coors’ Golden brewery. Simultaneously with the departure of the train, more than 100 trucks piled high with the eagerly-awaited beverage will leave Coors’ brewery for Denver and other points.”
The brewery was already employing 125 men and working three shifts. The bottling plant was running 24 hours a day.
A Transcript caller, who is supposed to be well informed about such matters and who spent much time hunting for the corner around which prosperity was supposed to be lurking, tells us that prosperity wasn’t around a corner, but behind a beer keg.
Colorado Transcript – April 6, 1933
The same edition of the paper announced that local farmers would be planting barley, as Coors would need plenty of it and would pay cash.
Happy days were here again!
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!
