What’s Happening in Golden Today?
6:30-7:15AM HIIT (Virtual)
8:30-9:30AM Power Training (Virtual)
9AM and 2PM Colorado School of Mines Fall Commencement @ Lockridge Arena
10AM-12PM Rocky Mountain Quilt Study Group @ Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
10AM-5PM Holiday Art Market @ Foothills Art Center
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
12-12:55PM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
1-1:45PM Silver Sneakers Yoga (Virtual)
1-2PM The Locomotive: Steam & Diesel Tour @ Colorado Railroad Museum
3PM Vaccine, License & Microchip Clinic @ Foothills Animal Shelter
5-8PM Winter Trail Run Clinic + Holiday Lights Run @ Runners Roost
6-8PM Teens After Hours: Extreme Playground @ Golden Library
7:30PM A Christmas Story @ Miners Alley Playhouse
Miracle Shop @ Calvary Episcopal Church
Holiday Food Drive for the Christian Action Guild Food Pantry @ Mountain Toad Brewery (map) and the Golden Visitor Center (map)
Holiday Canned Food Drive for BGOLDN @ On Tap Credit Union (map)
Live Music
5-8PM Live Music @ Eddy Taproom
5-8PM Digg Band @ Goosetown Station
7-10PM Chuck Fisher @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
8PM Petty Nicks Experience – A Tribute to Tom Petty & Stevie Nicks @ Buffalo Rose
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
Golden History Moment
The Colorado Transcript had an endless number of ways to say “shop local!” Last week I reprinted their 1921 reminder that if you shopped in Denver instead of Golden, you might be murdered, run over, or catch small pox.
The December 16, 1943 Colorado Transcript urged people to hurry out to the stores before they ran out of merchandise. They announced this with an unsettling headline:
Attacks on Golden’s Stores This Season Without Precedent
Moving past that alarming introduction, the reader learned that sales were brisk in Golden’s stores.
There seems to be a determination on the part of Christmas shoppers this year to clean out all the stores of every article that can possibly be used as a gift and every card that expresses Christmas cheer.…
The buying started almost two months ago when the postal officials announced the time for mailing presents to the men overseas, and has continued without abatement. Many are still sending presents to their soldier boys in hopes that they will reach them early next month.
For several weeks, and this week in particular, there is and has been advertised in the Transcript by responsible home stores a large number of specially selected articles that will make nice Christmas gifts and remembrances. Be sure and look these ads over before going shopping, as they will help you to save both time and money.
Then as now–shop local!
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!
