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Merry Christmas, Past, Present, and Future

Click to enlarge This image began as a daytime shot of the 1100 block of Washington Avenue, darkened, tinted blue, colorizing the windows to a pale yellow, and adding a full moon rising over North Table Mountain. See the original.

Merry Christmas to All!

Regular readers will know that I spend a lot of time researching Golden history, and sometimes share some of my topics in What’s Happening in Golden? If you have some leisure time today, you may enjoy reviewing some of my history-oriented columns from the past year:

January 15, 2018
Way More Than You Ever Wanted to Know
(about the Buffalo Rose buildings)

May 22, 2018
A Glimpse of 1948 in Golden…and Back to the Present
(downtown Golden, post WWII)

May 31, 2018
Used Book Sale, Deal at Miners Alley, Summer Reading, and 1918 in Golden

June 11, 2018
A Dark Chapter from Golden History
(KKK in Golden)

July 4, 2018
Fun on the Fourth
(sentiments about the 4th of July after the Civil War

July 29, 2018
Buffalo Bill Days Events – Sunday Edition
(the first Buffalo Bill Days, in 1946)

September 3, 2018
Golden’s Industrial Past and School of Mines Growth Plans
(a review of some of Golden’s historic industries)

September 30, 2018
Join the Fire Dept, Listen to Music, HPB Meeting
(1918 influenza epidemic in Golden)

October 24, 2018
Sustainability Goals, Golden Hell Week, Golden Fortnightly
(Golden Fortnightly Club during WWI)

November 4, 2018
Darker Days, Then and Now
(shirkers, war, and epidemic in Golden)

November 12, 2018
72 New Apartments and a 48-Unit Hotel on 8th Street, Influenza Epidemic, Yard Waste, and Affordable Housing
(1918 influenza still raging in November)

November 11, 2018
Time Capsule, Armistice Day, Sunday at the Quilt Museum, Golden United, Yard Waste
(Armistice Day celebration in Golden)

December 17, 2018
Railways–Extinct and Imagined–and Christmas Plays
(funicular railways in Golden)

December 23, 2018
150 Years Ago
(What’s Happening in Golden? circa 1868)

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