6 Years Ago
In November of 2018, the Golden History Museum hosted a huge crowd who watched as they opened the time capsule buried in 1968. This repeated a gathering of 50 years earlier, when a 1968 Golden crowd opened the 1918 time capsule. That one was created to celebrate the end of World War I.
The Railroad Museum hosted a Rails and Cocktails program about train wrecks.
The Golden Library held their popular STEM Girls program, and well as Extreme Science: Buzzing with Energy. The Jeffco Schools got out early one day, so the library hosted Freaky Friday, with games, crafts, and Legos. The Teens After Dark program held a Teen Video Game Night.
Frank Blaha was the Golden Beer Talks speaker, telling us about the 1918 Influenza Epidemic.
Mines Little Theater presented Neil Simon’s Rumors and She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen. Golden High School performed student-directed one-act plays. Miners Alley produced still another variation of A Christmas Carol.
Foothills Art Center offered a class by Jane Christie: Success with Pastels.
The Golden Urban Renewal Authority met with the Confluence Company, which proposed to build 72 apartments and a 48 room hotel on 8th Street, where the Briarwood Inn formerly stood. The GURA board explored ways to incent Confluence to make some of the apartments affordable. Confluence was unmoved.
The Mines Symphony Orchestra and Mines Jazz Band performed in the old Golden Ford building at 19th St. and 6th Avenue.
The Great Turkey Chase took place on Thanksgiving Day. Kids doing the race chased a guy in a turkey suit. They tried to grab tail feathers in exchange for prizes.
Safeway approached the Local Licensing Authority with a request to modify their premises. Full-strength beer had been legalized for sale in grocery stores, and Safeway planned to permanently expand their “fermented malt beverage” area.
The Golden Investment Task Forum was sorting through the long list of “wants” defined in our various master plans. It was trying to prioritize them and see whether we needed an additional revenue source (in fact, a lodging tax) to satisfy our desires.
The Candlelight Walk was early that year—November 30th.
City Council held an executive session to discuss buying property “East of Ford near 10th Street” (the Coors office building and parking lots).
