The Presbyterian Sunday School gave a picnic at Manhattan Beach Thursday. They went over the Lakewood and report the jolliest of times.
Manhattan Beach was an amusement park on Sloan’s Lake in Edgewater. "The Lakewood" referred to the interurban train (the Denver, Lakewood & Golden). Its route ran through Lakewood, using much the same route that today’s “W” line follows.
Choke Cherries are beginning to ripen. (That’s true today, too!)
Prof. and Mrs. M. C. Ihlsing and Baby Dorothy are home again from their summer outing. They visited the World’s Fair on their way home.
This refers to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
Geo. R. Arnold–everybody knows George–has taken hold of the Standley Hall stables and will run them as a feed and sale establishment. By giving strictest attention to his customers he expects to build up a good trade.
Standley Hall was a large brick building at 12th and Arapahoe (across 12th Street from the Astor House), built in the 1870s and used for many dances, performances, and political meetings. The building blew down in a windstorm in 1902.
The Warren dances at Sapp’s Grove are becoming very popular and the Lakewood comes into this pleasant resort crowded both from Denver and Golden. The pavilion will undoubtedly be enlarged to accommodate the large crowds.
Sapp’s Grove was a large grove of cottonwoods located at 23rd and Jackson. In 1893, Jackson was a railway line rather than a street, and it was convenient for the railroad to drop passengers there for the regularly scheduled dances.
It will seem funny to see history repeat itself in Golden in the matter of carrying on trade with gold-dust and amalgam. In ’59 and ’60 the smallest purchases were paid for in dust, every merchant and business man having his little gold-scales ready for use. We expect to see the boys who are making things so lively in the creek bed just now making that sort of history for us again in the near future.
That summer, there were two parties prospecting for gold in Clear Creek–one at the mouth of the canyon and one in the valley between the two Table Mountains. Transcript publisher George West was here in ’59 and ’60, and would well remember those days of trading in gold dust.
Many thanks to the Golden History Museum for providing the online cache of historic Transcripts, and many thanks to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866!
