Six New Cases in Golden, Halloween Event, Spectacle on Washington Avenue, and the End of a Stack

*Golden Eye Candy – Vanover Park in the Fall – click to enlarge*

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

JCPHD updates these numbers Monday through Friday at about 3 PM. Here’s the most recent Coronavirus report from Jeffco Public Health’s Case Summary Page:

School of Mines COVID-19 case page. | Masks are required. | City and County fire restrictions are in place. | Clear Creek is now open.

News Flash Regarding the Astor House

*Photo the first time the Astor House was saved, in 1972 – click to enlarge*

City Council made their decision last night regarding the future of the Astor House. They had received two excellent proposals–one from the Golden Civic Foundation and one from Foothills Art Center. They chose to move forward with Foothills Art Center.

Virtual Golden

6-6:55AM Virtual HIIT
9-10AM Virtual Power Training

Real World Golden

11AM Yoga on Tap @ New Terrain Brewing
1-2PM Friday Tour at the Railroad Museum – Locomotives
6PM Trunk-or-Treat and a Family Movie @ Adios Chiropractic
Bring your family for some Halloween fun at ADIO Chiropractic (map). Join us for Trunk-or-Treating starting at 6PM followed by a showing of Hotel Transylvania starting at 7:30PM. Snacks will be provided. Bring your favorite chairs and your coziest blankets. RSVP by calling 720-708-4925 and mentioning “Trunk-or-Treat” or email drthomas@getadio.com.
7:15PM Spectacle de Curiosite’ – Downtown Golden
Do you have what it takes to solve this time-traveling mystery? Grab your detective buddies, masks and favorite steampunk apparel and head to the streets of Downtown Golden where there is trouble brewing ! You’ll enter a vortex between worlds on Washington Avenue in Golden 1899! This spell-binding outdoor adventure will take you on a dangerous journey where you and your team-mates will watch scenes, find clues and hopefully save the future world! Think you can figure it out in time? Learn more….

Live Music:
6PM Jewel & the Rough at Wrigley’s
7:30PM Smokin’ and Fire n Ice at Buffalo Rose

Saturday Preview

The Coors office building at 311 10th St. (map) will be demolished soon. Tomorrow, from 8AM-2PM, the City is holding a yard sale. They will be selling off whatever is left in the building–“office chairs, filing cabinets, bookcases, office tables, café tables and chairs, and more.” Learn more….

Golden History Moment

*Several postcards of Coors, all with smokestacks (and therefore all photos taken between 1925 and 1970) – click to enlarge*

Fifty+ Years Ago
The July 13, 1970 Golden Transcript reported that the Coors smokestack was being demolished. The 180 foot tall smokestack was built in 1925. The article explains that the stack had been used with a coal boiler. The Clean Air Act became law in 1967, and Coors had switched to gas and oil boilers, to clean up their emissions.

From the article:
All of this is part of Coors recognition for the need to control air pollution. Remember how the black smoke used to waft over the Table Mountains, down the valley towards Wheat Ridge or up the valley over Golden?

The presence (or absence) of the smokestack is one item that I use to help establish dates for pictures of Coors.