Public Health References
CDC * Colorado * Jefferson County * City of Golden
JCPHD updates these numbers Monday through Friday at about 3 PM. Here’s the most recent Coronavirus report from Jeffco Public Health’s Case Summary Page:
Cases in Jeffco – Thurs: 7686 | Fri: 7796 (+110)
Deaths in Jeffco – Thurs: 305 | Fri: 307 (+2)
Ever Hospitalized in Jeffco – Thurs: 662 | Fri: 674 (currently 59) (+12)
Recovered – Thurs: 6319 | Fri: 6448 (+129)
Known Cases in Golden – Thurs: 259 | Fri: 268 (+9)
School of Mines COVID-19 case page. | Masks are required. | City and County fire restrictions are in place. | Clear Creek is now open.
Virtual Golden
10AM-3PM Zoom into Watercolor
October Notecards with Janet Nunn – Offered by Foothills Art Center
1-3PM Color and Composition Class w/ Quilt Museum
10AM-3PM PranaTonic Grand Opening (Virtual Edition)
Join via Zoom any time, or take virtual tours at 12 and 2PM
Real World Golden
9AM-2PM Brunch at the Rose
9AM Vinyasa Yoga in Lions Park with Gabriela Ferrat
10AM-4PM Trick or Treat Train
The Railroad Museum is a family-friendly, mostly outdoors experience. While we won’t have Trick-or-Treating as usual this year, there will still be treats for the kids! Tickle your funny bones at the “not so spooky” Haunted Railcar and the Olde Railroaders Silly Graveyard. Enjoy live entertainment, visit our local vendors for a tasty snack, and get photos with the family in front of our Pumpkin Patch cart and Harvest-decorated historical locomotives and railcars! The event will feature Steam Train Rides behind newly restored, 1899-vintage Rio Grande Southern steam locomotive No. 20, plus lots of socially distanced family fun!
10AM-2PM Drug Take-Back Day
10AM-3PM PranaTonic Grand Opening
We can’t wait to show everyone around our new location. We’ve made significant upgrades and changes to the studio. We’re also liquidating all our retail so prices are strongly reduced. Plus, we’ll have free classes all day, and PRIZES, GIVE-AWAYS AND A RAFFLE! Teachers and practitioners will be available to answer questions about yoga, Tai Chi, acupuncture, chiropractic and massage services. You’ll also see for yourself what we’re doing during COVID to keep you safe!
11AM Wild West Pub Crawl Tour
There’s nothing like some great stories with a cold beer, and our Wild West Pub Crawl will give you just that! This tour runs about three hours and includes three 10-oz beers*, one at each downtown brewery we stop at. We have more wild and outlandish stories of the Wild West to tell on this tour, but we still squeeze in some Golden History as well.
2-4PM Artist Meet N Greet at the Quilt Museum
Stop by and meet Kathy Suprenant to learn about her artistic process. Her solo exhibit “Through a Lens” is on display now at the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum.
7:15PM Spectacle de Curiosite’ – Downtown Golden
Do you have what it takes to solve this time-traveling mystery? Grab your detective buddies, masks and favorite steampunk apparel and head to the streets of Downtown Golden where there is trouble brewing ! You’ll enter a vortex between worlds on Washington Avenue in Golden 1899! This spell-binding outdoor adventure will take you on a dangerous journey where you and your team-mates will watch scenes, find clues and hopefully save the future world! Think you can figure it out in time?
9:30PM Colorado Haunted History: Murder, Mayhem and Madness Tour
Hear tales of the wild, wild west that Golden once was. Tales include lynchings, shootouts, murder, and mayhem. See the park named after an innocent man hanged by a mob and the location where Golden’s ‘Night of Terror’ took place. Hear what nefarious activities used to take place on top of Golden’s Castle Rock, what paranormal activity may have forced a building to be shortened by one floor, and much more. Due to the Wild West nature of the stories in this tour, some salty language may be used and some stories may be disturbing. Parental guidance is strongly encouraged for children under 13.
Live Music:
7PM Mr. David Booker at Golden Moon Speakeasy
8PM HomeSlice at Buffalo Rose
Golden History Moment
47 Years Ago
The October 24, 1973 Golden Transcript included an article that invited kids of all ages to the 1st Annual Heritage Haunt. They promised a “Costume Contest Halloween night, the Spook House, the Great Pumpkin, fortune telling, apple bobbing, and the hay ride to the stables for a marshmallow roast,” all free of charge courtesy of the Heritage Square merchants.
In later years, Heritage Square had a haunted house called Spider Mansion. I never went there (too chicken), so I asked my daughter for her memories. Curiously, the first thing that came to mind was that they got $1 off the $10 admission fee if they brought a can of non-perishable food.
She remembers strobe lights, blacklights, and a lot of claustrophobic feelings: at times she and her friends had to crawl through half-height rooms. At other times they were forced to crowd closer to things than they wanted to–for instance, in a blood-stained bathroom where a murder had apparently occurred, they had to squeeze past the bathtub. Monsters jumped out at them at various times, and she said the character from the horror movie “The Ring” (a girl in a nightgown with long hair that obscured her face) kept popping up in different rooms. Finally, they were encouraged to leave by a guy who chased them out with a chainsaw.
There’s some valuable Golden history, captured for the ages!
