Make-Up Cemetery Tour
I’m giving a cemetery tour for a few friends who couldn’t make the “official” one last month. If you would like to join us on Saturday afternoon, let me know, and I’ll send the details.
Virtual Events
10-11:30AM Virtual: Microsoft Excel Basics
10AM Call In: Mid-Morning Meditation
2-5PM Jeffco Free Legal Clinic
6-7PM Virtual: Qs and Brews Trivia
Real World Events
9 AM Public Art Commission Meeting @ City Hall
PAC will discuss doing some “small” public art projects, which could include downtown wayfinding, enhanced crosswalks to improve noticeability, word art on yard signs, open studios, micro neighborhood art markets, downtown street light banners, FAC exhibit and map event signage in the golden hotel wall frame, dress up sculptures, yarn bombing, and an art scavenger hunt. They may also look at the tourism strategic plan for ideas. They will also discuss their “Public Art Program Framework Plan.” They are planning to invite some art professionals to serve as “Art Partners” and several City staffers to serve as an “Implementation Group.”
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
11AM-12:30PM Golden Community Table @ First United Methodist Church
6PM Fun Run @ Runners Roost
6-7:30PM Golden United Task Force Meeting
6-7:30PM Ukulele Thursdays @ Golden Library
Live Music
5-8PM Shawn Nelson @ Goosetown Station
6PM Paper Moonshine @ New Terrain Brewing
6PM Open Pick Night @ Over Yonder Brewing
7PM Forever Man (Clapton) and Born to Run (Springsteen) @ Buffalo Rose (main venue)
7PM Ryan Hutchens at Golden Moon Speakeasy
8PM Karaoke @ Rock Rest Lodge
Golden History Moment
84 Years Ago
Mayor Burt Jones of Golden has received an invitation to participate in the opening, on November 15, of the new subway on Thirty-eighth avenue, one of the important streets out of North Denver extending into Golden. This subway will give a direct line of travel through North Denver into Golden which makes this new structure of considerable interest locally.
Colorado Transcript – November 4, 1937
A subway? In Denver? Coming to Golden? How could I not have known about that?
The rest of the article detailed the elaborate celebration plans. Mayor Jones would come from Golden, the Aurora Mayor would come from Aurora. They would meet Mayor Stapleton of Denver and Governor Ammons (of Colorado) at Union Station. The Burlington Railroad would provide a Zephyr to carry the dignitaries to the site of the new subway.
Once there, Mayor Stapleton and Governor Ammons would hold a large paper hoop. The Golden Mayor would stand on the west side and the Aurora Mayor would stand on the east side. At the signal, the two would thrust their hands through the paper and shake hands–thus, officially opening the subway. A parade, speeches, and music would follow.
The “subway” phrase continued to boggle me. I looked for more articles about 38th Avenue, more articles about subways, and old Denver maps–before and after the 1937 “subway” was built.
It turns out that the project consisted of a series of road improvements and a new viaduct over the South Platte River and railroad tracks. Together, they created “a direct line of travel through North Denver into Golden.” The “sub” part of the “subway” referred to the tracks below the new viaduct.
I know that road projects were always a big deal in the 1930s, but this one struck me as a bit over-blown, with very confusing nomenclature!
The intersection of 38th Avenue and Fox Street survives, but it’s now in the shadow of I-25, which opened in 1963.
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!
