WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
8AM Saturday Morning Run and Social Walk @ Golden History Park
8-8:55AM Tai Chi (Virtual)
9AM-12PM Delivery Truck @ Home Depot
10-11AM Biker Breakfast @ Avalanche Harley Davidson
10AM Wild West Walking Tour
10AM-3PM Brunch at the Rose @ Buffalo Rose
10:15AM Family Time @ Golden Library
12-12:45PM Quick Class: Smoothie Bowls @ Natural Grocers
1PM Demo Day – Diana Fox @ Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
Diana’s work is currently exhibited in RMQM’s NE Gallery. The Modern / Contemporary exhibit Outside the Frame’s Edge will be leaving January 13th – but before it leaves, Diana will be in the Gallery explaining some of the materials and techniques that she uses to create her multidimensional and textured works.
Midday (1 PM) both days Diana will be prepared to show and discuss:
how she uses some costuming materials to create 3D shapes and effects
how she converted white fabric it into a work named “Big Blue”
these include various activities such as hand dying,
and thread painting with different thread materials
Diana will also discuss “creative group” dynamics and how they challenged her and moved her forward in her artistry during the tough times of the pandemic. Her insights could help you create your own “creative group” to push you and others you may or may not know – to be excited, accountable and begin creating in a whole new way, as well as turn creative acquaintances into tight-knit relationships.
Access to this fantastic time of insight and new info with Diana will be in the Galleries and requires access to the Exhibits. Members gain access for free. Non-Members pay the normal admission rate.
1-2:30PM Dungeons & Dragons for Beginners (Virtual)
1-3PM PAWS for Reading @ Golden Library
3:30-5PM Dungeons & Dragons for Advanced Players (Virtual)
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CITY MEETINGS
10AM Coffee with Councilors @ Golden Community Center
Join your neighbors for Coffee with Councilors the first Saturday of the month at 10:00 a.m. in the Golden Community Center Bear Creek South room (1470 10th St. – map).
We want to learn what you want to learn about and discuss at CWC in 2024. What is on your mind? What are your concerns? Bring your thoughts, ideas, and questions, and let’s have a conversation!
Please note an online/remote option to attend will no longer be available for Coffee with Councilors in 2024, so please plan to attend in-person.
Changing of the Guard: this is Casey Brown’s final Coffee with a Councilor. The new District Councilors–Patty Evans and Lisa Vitry–will be taking over.
LIVE MUSIC
12-3PM Southside Mike @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
5-9PM Live Music @ Bridgewater Grill
5-8PM Live Music @ Eddy Taproom
5-8PM Abby Brown @ Golden Mill
5:30-8:30PM Conal Rosanbalm @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
The Golden community had experienced high unemployment for many months by March of 1933. A local relief organization had been formed to accept donations and help local families in need.
The crisis was suddenly exacerbated when Golden’s bank closed on March 6th as part of Roosevelt’s “bank holiday.” The closure was at first expected to be of short duration, but in the end it lasted for four years. Unfortunately, the money collected by the Golden Relief Fund had been kept in Golden’s Rubey Bank.
Those who had already contributed to the relief fund felt a bit tapped-out, and the loss of the bank meant the entire community was short of cash.
By chance, the Relief Committee had just launched a program which promised to help with both problems: Golden Welfare Scrip. “Scrip” is paper issued in lieu of cash payment. It depends on people and businesses being willing to accept it. Several of Golden’s community leaders persuaded Golden businesses to take Golden Welfare Scrip.
Here’s how it worked: unemployed men (I think it was always men) would perform some community service–often road work. At the end of the week, the Golden Relief Committee would pay them in Scrip.
Golden businesses would buy a booklet of stamps from the Relief Committee. Each stamp cost 2 cents. Every time a Golden business accepted Relief Scrip, they would attach a 2 cent stamp, then pass it along to some other business as they bought supplies or settled accounts.
A business accepting Scrip would be paying 2 cents for each dollar of Scrip they accepted, but it was a relatively easy way to contribute to the relief fund, and it did bring customers in the door.
The Transcript promoted the use of Welfare Scrip by sending a reporter out to follow a $1 Scrip certificate through the community. They published an article detailing every transaction. Here’s an abbreviated version:
The street supervisor was paid for road work with Golden Welfare Scrip. He used it at Golden’s Red & White for groceries. The grocery store took it to the Colorado Central Power Company and applied it to their electricity bill. The Power Company used it at the Transcript to pay for advertising. The Transcript used it to pay one of their reporters. He took it to Stewart’s and bought some groceries. Stewart took it to the lumber yard to pay for coal. The lumber yard used it at Koenig Mercantile for groceries. Koenig used it at the Golden Mill to buy flour. The Mill used it to buy gas. The gas station owner applied it to his account at Hertel’s clothing store. Hertel used it at the City Market for groceries. The City Market took it to the Power Company to apply to their electricity bill…. And so on, and so on.
The article went through 50 transactions, which included a purchase of a cream puff, a car payment, hardware, more coal, more advertising with the Transcript, more groceries, chocolate, more flour, a phone bill, some electrical work, the book store, shave and a trim at the barber shop, a doctor’s bill, insurance, etc.
Each merchant attached a two cent stamp. In the end, the final Scrip holder could present the Scrip with its 50 stamps to the Golden Relief Committee and receive $1 in real currency. The Transcript speculated that a Scrip holder might just keep it as a souvenir instead–in which case, Golden Relief would be ahead $1. In the meantime, many Golden businesses had done $1 in business that they might not otherwise have gotten.
The program ran from March through September, 1933. At that time, the Relief Committee invited people to redeem any outstanding Scrip for cash. They observed that several local industries had been hiring and paying cash, and that the crisis of having too little currency in Golden was over. The Relief Committee calculated that more than $8,000 worth of business had been conducted using Golden Scrip. Many individuals chose to retain Scrip as souvenirs, and some big-city banks paid a premium to acquire it as an historical curiosity.
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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