Pretty Pictures, the Month-End Appeal, Buffalo Bill Days, and the Comings and Goings of Kinney Run

Nine scenic views of Golden, including Clear Creek, the mountains, and horses — *Golden Eye Candy – July 2023 Retrospective – enlarge*

MONTH-END APPEAL

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WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?

9-10AM Keg Conditioning @ Golden Mill
9AM Buffalo Bill Days – 16th Annual Worship Service @ Parfet Park
9:30-11:30AM Full Walking Tour @ Dinosaur Ridge
10AM Wild West Short Tour
10AM-3PM Brunch at the Rose @ Buffalo Rose
10AM-noon Breakfast Burritos @ The Golden Mill
10AM-5PM Arts & Crafts Festival @ Parfet Park
10AM-5PM Children’s Activities @ Parfet Park
11AM-12:30PM Mutton Bustin‘ @ East End Lions Field

SEE THE COMPLETE CALENDAR OF EVENTS.

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LIVE MUSIC

11AM-2PM Poi Rogers @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
12PM Buffalo Bill Days – Denver Jazz Club Youth All Stars @ Parfet Park
2PM Living Room Band @ Over Yonder
2PM Buffalo Bill Days – Long Run (Tribute to The Eagles) @ Parfet Park
3-7PM Gone 2Long @ Wrigley’s

4-7PM Will Whalen @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
8PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern

GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT

*From the 1893 Golden Globe Industrial Edition*

For eighty-two years, there was a lumber yard at 13th and Ford Streets. H. T. Quick started it in 1891. He hired George Duvall to manage the business, and in 1908, Duvall and a partner, Isaac Davison, purchased the business and renamed it Duvall-Davison. Davison died in 1926, but Duvall retained the full name. Duvall-Davison Lumber operated until George Duvall’s death in 1964.

*Excerpt from the 1919 Sanborn Fire Map showing the Duvall-Davison Lumberyard – Ford St. on the bottom, 13th St. on the left, 14th St. on the right*

That block had an unusual layout, in that it was split diagonally, with a Catholic church on the other half of the block. That happened because a natural stream–Kinney Run–ran diagonally through the block, as did a railroad.

*Duvall-Davison Lumber Company at Ford and 13th – looking across Ford St. Photo from the Colorado Transcript, Volume 99, Number 43, July 29, 1965 – enlarge*

After Mr. Duvall’s death (in 1964), Coors began negotiations with both the Duvall estate and the parish to acquire the land. St. Joseph’s needed a new, larger church with better parking, so the offer was welcome. Coors purchased both parcels in 1965, but continued to lease the property to St. Joseph’s and to a new lumber company (Gateway Lumber) until they were ready to build a new parking lot to accommodate brewery visitors.

Both the lumberyard buildings and the red brick church were demolished in the summer of 1973. Coors “undergrounded” Kinney Run at that time. The railroad had been gone since the early 1950s, so Coors was able to put parking over the entire block.

It’s interesting to look at the Coors parking lot and think about what used to be there.

*Satellite photo of the Coors parking lot at 13th and Ford, with the buildings, creek, and railroad tracks from the 1919 Sanborn map superimposed*

More recently, Coors brought Kinney Run back to surface level. This was part of a flood-abatement project to bring more of the brewery property out of the flood plain.

*The recent project to re-“aboveground” Kinney Run straightened the route of the creek and removed one row of parking spaces*

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!

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