What’s Happening in Golden Today?
6-6:55AM HIIT (Virtual)
8-9AM Morning StArt: An Artist Coffee Meetup with Kathy Fisher @ Café 13
8:30-9:30AM Power Training (Virtual)
9-9:55AM Strength and Cardio (Virtual)
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
12-12:55PM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
1-1:45PM Silver Sneakers Yoga (Virtual)
1-2PM The Friday Tour-Pullman @ Colorado Railroad Museum
3PM Vaccine, License & Microchip Clinic @ Foothills Animal Shelter
6-10 Brews for Rescues @ The Golden Mill
7PM and 8PM The Talking Dead Tour
7-9PM Colorado Haunted History: Murder, Mayhem and Madness Tour @ Golden Visitors Center
7-8:30P Colorado Rails and Cocktails: Colorado, Railroads, and the World’s Fairs @ Colorado Railroad Museum
An Evening of Colorado History – Relax, enjoy a beverage and travel back to a time when railroads shaped the American West.
Admission: $20 Adults. Ages 21+ only. Admission includes 2 beverages of your choice (beer, wine or soda) and snacks.
October 7, 2022 – Colorado, Railroads, and the World’s Fairs Historian Kris Autobee joins us for this fun look at how Colorado and its railroads participated in various World’s Fairs. Railroads have been featured alongside a wide range of ideas and products, culture, commerce and entertainment, since their inception in 1851. Coloradoans joined in by bringing their own products and experiences to share with the world.
8PM That Eighties Band @ Buffalo Rose
Live Music
5-8PM Jubilingo @ Goosetown Station
6PM Morsel @ New Terrain Brewing
6PM The Francisco Escape @ Over Yonder
6PM Jewel & the Rough @ Wrigley’s
7-10PM Conal Rosanbalm @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
8PM That Eighties Band @ Buffalo Rose (main venue)
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
Golden Tomorrow
I’m giving two tours tomorrow at the Golden cemetery–one at 11:30 and one at 1PM. Come and meet some of our Golden predecessors! This is a fund-raiser for the History Museum.
Mines’ Homecoming is tomorrow: 8AM 5K Race 9AM Street Fair on Kafadar Commons, 10AM Tailgate party, and 12PM Mines vs. Colorado Mesa football game
Tomorrow is the last Farmers Market for the year. They’re open from 8AM-1PM.
Tomorrow is a free day at the Golden Community Center. In honor of Marv Kay, the Civic Foundation is sponsoring the first annual Marv Kay Come in and Play Free Day.
Golden History Moment
Prohibition went into effect nationally on January 1, 1920. It was repealed 13 years later. Prohibition had started even earlier in Colorado–in 1916.
Neither Prohibition nor its repeal were universally popular. Alcohol unquestionably caused problems in society, but most people would have said that they weren’t causing the problems–other (bad) people were! The Eighteenth Amendment was designed to stop habitual drunkenness, but it also made milder forms of drinking illegal–the celebratory toast, the beer after work, the wine with dinner. It removed a legal right that people had always had.
Demand for alcohol continued unabated, but now it was supplied by illegal operations. The Jefferson County Sheriff spent most of his time between 1920 and 1933 chasing bootleggers. When Prohibition was repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment, there was an almost universal sense of relief.
Note the “almost:” in 1948, there was an attempt to bring back Prohibition, backed by the American Temperance Society. They approached the problem by putting the proposal on local ballots in many places around the county.
74 Years Ago
In response to the proposed local option prohibition amendment, the Colorado Transcript offered the following editorial.
NO! NO! NOT THAT!
SOME people want to go back to those terrible days when prohibition almost wrecked this country–when drinking flourished in the high schools and colleges, when murders were opening committed on the streets, when gangsters and bootleggers ran riot, when the laws of this country were held in utter contempt! You should be all means register and vote NO on Number Three.
Colorado Transcript – October 7, 1948
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!
