Puppy Yoga, Local Art, Live Music, and the Iron Horse Motel

*Golden Eye Candy – Richard Luckin – February Day – enlarge*

What’s Happening in Golden Today?

9-10AM Puppy Yoga @ Golden Mill
10AM-noon Breakfast Burritos @ The Golden Mill
10AM-3PM Brunch at the Rose @ Buffalo Rose
10AM Wild West Walking History Tour

12-5PM Local Art Fair @ Morris & Mae
12-2PM Full Walking Tour @ Dinosaur Ridge
1-2PM Garden Blessing Ceremony @ Golden Community Garden
1PM Wild West Pub Crawl

2PM The Great American Trailer Park Musical @ Miners Alley Playhouse
2:30-4:30PM Textile Society @ Golden Library

Live Music

11AM-2PM Johnny O @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
3PM Scotty Brown @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse

4-7PM Hank Cramer @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)

5-8PM Marty Nightengale @ Golden Mill
5-8PM René Moffatt @ Over Yonder
8PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern

Ethics in Business

The Rotary Club of Golden is conducting the 18^th annual Ethics in Business Awards program in 2023. Each year the club seeks nominations from the public of those organizations in our community, both for-profit and not-for-profit, that demonstrate the highest standards of ethical business practice, integrity, and civic and social responsibility.

All nominations received by Feb. 28, 2023 will be evaluated by students in the Ethics class at the Colorado School of Mines. They will choose the winners, who, along with all nominees, will be recognized and honored at an Awards luncheon on May 5, 2023 at the Sheraton Denver West hotel. To make a nomination, go to ethics.goldenrotary.org/nominations-form/. This Ethics in Business Awards website also gives more details on the Ethics awards program, which has been an important and popular event since its founding in 2006.

Celebrating Heart and Soul of Golden Month:
Colorado Railroad Museum

*The Iron Horse Motel, former neighbor to the Railroad Museum – click to enlarge*

The Colorado Railroad Museum came to Golden in 1959, and the Iron Horse Hotel came with it. The Museum’s founder, Bob Richardson, used revenue from the Motel help fund the Museum.

*Early sign, advertising both the Museum and the Motel. The depot-style museum building is still in use – click to enlarge*

The Iron Horse Development Corporation (of which Richardson was President) sold the motel in 1964. It continued in operation until the Museum was ready to expand in the late 1990s. At that time, the 40 year old motel was demolished. With the extra property, the Museum was able to build their roundhouse facility (where maintenance and restoration work takes place) and extend their track to form a complete loop.

*The roundhouse now occupies the former Iron Horse Motel property. Google satellite image.*

*1962 Advertisement from the Colorado Transcript*

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!