What’s Happening in Golden Today?
6-6:55AM HIIT (Virtual)
8:30-9:30AM Power Training (Virtual)
10AM-12PM Rocky Mountain Quilt Study Group @ Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
10AM Wild West Walking History Tour
10AM, 1PM, and 4PM Wild West Short Tour
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
10:30AM The Friday Tour @ Colorado Railroad Museum
12-12:55PM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
1-1:45PM Silver Sneakers Yoga (Virtual)
1:30PM The Friday Tour @ Colorado Railroad Museum
1-11PM Raise a Pint, Lend a Hand @ Holidaily Brewing
3PM Vaccine, License & Microchip Clinic @ Foothills Animal Shelter
4PM CSM Baseball – Orediggers vs. Colorado Mesa @ Jim Darden Field
7:30PM Shark Box Theater: Don’t Dress for Dinner @ American Mountaineering Center
St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations
11AM-midnight St. Patrick’s Day @ Miners Saloon
Join us for special food items–Irish stew and corned beef paninis and seasonal drinks: Guinness on tap, Jameson Irish Whiskey, Red Breast Irish Whiskey, Baileys Irish Cream, and shots of the above. Try an Irish Car Bomb (a shot of Baileys & Jameson dropped into a pint of Guiness)!
11AM-8PM St. Patrick’s Day @ Golden City Brewery
Enjoy the green beer of your choice, bomb shots with dark beers, and Jell-O shots!
4-4:30PM Irish Dancers @ The Golden Mill
5-10PM St. Patrick’s Day @ The Buffalo Rose
St. Patrick’s Day Menu (available March 17-19): Creamy Irish Potato Soup $5 cup | $7 bowl Corned Beef & Cabbage $21 Grasshopper Brown Trifle $8
5 p.m. Connolly Irish Dancers
7:30 p.m. Celtic Steps Irish Dancers
7-10 p.m. Live Music – Craig “CD” Clark
6-10PM Gateway Village’s First Annual St Paddy’s Pub Crawl @ (Starts at) Morris & Mae
Event Starts at 5pm with group costumes, 1 free cocktail from Morris and Mae, and 1 full hour of happy hour power hour drink and food specials. From there, we will move to Launch for a Whiskey Cold Brew (available in decaf if preferred). Next, we will be crawling down the street to Nomad for a St Paddy’s Specialty Cocktail. Then a quick intermission for a shot from Boulder Spirits and an Irish Dance troop performance at Morris and Mae! After we have our fill of traditional Irish folk dance, we are heading to Over Yonder Brewery for live music from Vada and a free pint. Drink and food specials available at all 4 bars as well! Feel free to dance the night away at Over Yonder or complete the crawl at Morris and Mae for late night happy hour until midnight.
Live Music
5-8PM The Barlow @ Goosetown Station
5-8PM Live Music @ Eddy Taproom
7-10PM Craig “CD” Clark @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
7PM Vada @ Over Yonder
7PM BadCo (Bad Company Tribute) @ Buffalo Rose (main venue)
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
Golden History Moment
The city of Golden lies in the lap of a veritable prehistoric treasure field, and where automobiles and street cars now travel the streets, and where flower beds and lawns now flourish, the horned dinosaur, the diplodocus and other huge monsters made their herding ground….
Colorado Transcript – March 17, 1921
102 Years Ago
The March 17, 1921 Colorado Transcript featured a visiting archaeologist who had given several lectures to Golden schoolchildren. Dr. W. J. Phifer described some of the dinosaurs that had been found in this area. They included
Triceratops on Green Mountain
Diplodocus on the road between Golden and Morrison
Stegosaurus a short distance from Morrison
Dr. Phifer suggested that the road between Golden and Morrison be improved and that we install cement models of the dinosaurs. “Such a road would soon become known all over the nation.”
The Dinosaur Ridge website reports that the remains of other dinosaurs have also been found in the area, including
Tyrannosaurs Rex on South Table Mountain
Apatosaurus and Allosaurus at Dinosaur Ridge
Iguanodon-like footprints near Red Rocks Park
While the cement dinosaurs were never built, we have commemorated our dinosaur past in other ways. Dinosaur Ridge is the #1 dinosaur tracksite in the nation. The Morrison Natural History Museum displays dinosaur bones and and active paleontology lab. Triceratops Trail in Golden passes by fossilized dinosaur tracks and prehistoric plants. The City’s golf course also features fossils, and was named Fossil Trace. The first fossilized remains of a stegosaurus were discovered by Arthur Lakes (of Arthur Lakes Library fame). The stegosaurus is now the Colorado State Fossil.
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!
