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Quiet Day, with Some Coors History

Golden Eye Candy – The Arch! (a few years ago) – Click to enlarge

Public Health References
CDC * Colorado * Jefferson County * City of Golden

JCPHD updates these numbers Monday through Friday at about 3 PM. The next update will appear in Tuesday morning’s email.

Jefferson County mask rule: masks must be worn both indoors and outdoors in public spaces where 6 feet distance cannot be maintained. This matches Golden’s requirement. The rest of the state requires masks only indoors. The Safer at Home and in the Vast, Great Outdoors protocol is in effect statewide. City and County fire restrictions are in place.


Virtual Golden

6:30-7:25AM Virtual Dynamic Circuit
9-10AM Virtual Power Training
10:15-11:15AM Cuentacuentos en español / Spanish Story Time with the Library
6:30PM GURA Meeting Cancelled


Real World Golden

6PM Gentle Yoga in the Yard – Golden Well Being Collective, 410 9th St. (map) – For additional info email goldenyogasanctuary@gmail.com


Golden History Moment

For those of you who don’t check email over the weekend, on Saturday I wrote about Golden’s reaction to the Bomb in 1945, and on Sunday I wrote about a 1930 fire on 12th St.

Picnic Grove on the Coors Brewery Grounds. Note the family home, surrounded by brewery buildings. – Click to enlarge

You’ve likely seen this picture before. Have you ever wondered why there are people frolicking around the brewery and boating in the ponds?

When the brewery was new, and for several decades afterwards, Coors had a beer garden, picnic grove, and mini-amusement park on the grounds. The area had trees, picnic tables, and swings. The ponds, which Coors built to make ice in the winter, were open to boating and even swimming. Coors sold beer and other refreshments and they rented out the grounds for group picnics.

The Golden community often celebrated the 4th of July on the Coors grounds, and the Colorado Transcript sometimes referred the grove as “the Golden Park.”

The grove was slowly overtaken by factory growth – Click to enlarge

References to the “pleasure grounds” began to disappear around the turn of the century, and the grove became more of a personal yard for the Coors family. Adolph Coors and his wife raised their family in the mansion on the grounds, and in later years, cottages were built as the next generation married and started families of their own.

The brewery grew at a tremendous pace after World War II – Click to enlarge

The brewery buildings eventually crowded out the old trees.

There was more of less constant construction at the brewery for many years. The mansion still stands in the midst of the brewery, but it’s no longer lived in. – Click to enlarge

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