Museum Store Sunday and High Tech Shopping in 1902

*Golden Eye Candy – Nancy Torpey – Winter Evening – enlarge*

What’s Happening in Golden Today?

*Check the museum stores for unusual gift options!*

Museum Store Sunday
Museums foster appreciation and knowledge of art, nature, culture, science, and history. When you purchase a gift from the museum store, you help to sustain the museum’s service to their community and the public. Products found in museum stores are curated just like the works displayed in their respective institutions, with many items often developed exclusively by the museum, resulting in distinctive and unique offerings. Be A Patron on Museum Store Sunday and all year round. Please contact the museum store you plan to visit to confirm hours. More information

Buffalo Bill’s Pahaska Teepee Gift Shop and Café
987 Lookout Mountain Rd. Map
303-526-9367
Colorado Railroad Museum Gift Shop
17155 W. 44th Avenue Map
303-279-4591
Dinosaur Ridge Gift Shop
16831 W. Alameda Pkwy, Morrison Map
303-697-3466
Foothills Art Center Gift Shop
809 15th Street Map
303-279-3922
Golden History Museum & Park Gift Shop
923 10th St. Map
303-278-3557
Mines Museum Gift Shop
Colorado School of Mines
1310 Maple Street Map
303-273-3815
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum Gift Shop
200 Violet Street, Unit 140 Map
303-277-0377

10AM-3PM Brunch at the Rose @ Buffalo Rose

10AM-5PM Holiday Art Market @ Foothills Art Center
The annual Holiday Art Market (HART) at Foothills Art Center in Golden, CO is a premier holiday venue for fabulous fine art and craft made in Colorado. Visitors are immersed in a unique holiday marketplace featuring an array of handmade gifts for everyone on their holiday gift giving list. Over 100 Colorado artists offer ceramics, fiber, glass, jewelry, paintings, woodworking, photography and much more. Plus, your purchases of these one-of-a-kind treasure helps support both local artists and Foothills Art Center! Admission and activities are free (donations accepted). 303-279-3922. Visit www.foothillsartcenter.org.

12-2:30PM Full Walking Tour @ Dinosaur Ridge
2PM A Christmas Story @ Miners Alley Playhouse
5PM Movie Night @ First Presbyterian Church of Golden (map)
Free family movie night at the church – this month we’re showing The Intern. We have popcorn to share, and people can feel free to bring whatever snacks they want to enjoy.

Live Music

11AM-2PM Kevin Austin @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
4-7PM Jonny Sterling @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)

2-5PM Shawn Eckles @ Golden Mill
6-10PM Rhett Haney @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
8PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern

Golden History Moment

*Circa 1900-era telephones – photo courtesy of the New Hampshire Telephone Museum*

High Tech Shopping – 120 Years Ago
The November 27, 1902 Colorado Transcript celebrated the convenience of Golden’s burgeoning telephone service.

Resident telephones are increasing in Golden, keeping Mr. Hale and his helpers on the jump in keeping up with his orders. Until the experiment is tried one hardly realizes the advantages of the institution and wear and tear of ones feelings that is obviated thereby. When the old man formerly arrived home for his lunch and his wife asked him for the butter and yeast-cake she told him to bring up he was compelled to ejaculate “Dog-gone it all, I forgot all about it!” Then he had to hike down town for the forgotten articles before he could get his lunch.

Now…instead of bothering the old man with errands the good lady can trip lightly to the phone and call up the grocer, the butcher or the ice man and order sent up what she wants without further trouble.… The ‘phone is a big thing all around.

The article also nudges stores that don’t have phones to get them. I have read, however, that some early merchants avoided installing phones precisely because they didn’t want to be asked to deliver small orders (such as “butter and yeast-cake”).

From the Golden History Museum collection: “Used for winter deliveries by the Koenig Mercantile Company, which operated from 1884 to 1941 in the Loveland Building at 12th and Washington. The story goes that the horse that pulled this sleigh knew his route so well that he just stopped at the houses that needed deliveries.”

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!