WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
9:15-9:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
10AM-4PM Funky Friends Workshop @ Golden Quilt Company
10AM-4PM Watercolor Notecards with Janet Nunn @ Foothills Art Center – SOLD OUT
10AM-12PM Rocky Mountain Quilt Study Group @ Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
10AM Wild West Short Tour
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
10:30AM and 1:30PM The Friday Tour @ Colorado Railroad Museum
12-12:55PM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
1-1:45PM Silver Sneakers Yoga (Virtual)
3PM Vaccine, License & Microchip Clinic @ Foothills Animal Shelter
5:30-8:30PM Nature Journal Club: Painting the Colors of Nature @ Lookout Mountain Preserve and Nature Center
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LIVE MUSIC
5-8PM Live Music @ Eddy Taproom
6PM Rado @ Over Yonder
7-10PM Conal Rosanbalm @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
8PM 6 Million Dollar Band @ Buffalo Rose (main venue)
5-8PM Schofields @ Goosetown Station
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
You probably already know about Golden’s major historic industries–paper mill, flour mills, bricks, pottery, glass, mines, smelters–not to mention the giant brewery on the east side of town.
Obscure Industries
Articles from the 1860s through early 1900s reference some lesser-known Golden industries, including a match factory on Ford Street and a fertilizer factory at the west end of 8th Street. There was a blacksmith shop that produced custom wagons at 12th and Ford. The blacksmith invented an improved hinge, which he patented and manufactured. We had a mattress factory, which used machinery for picking rags and washing them.
We had a few cigar factories. The earliest reference I find to a cigar factory was from 1872, and the last was 1905, so that industry had some staying power. One factory produced “Golden City Belles,” while another made “Golden Reds.”
That’s about all I was able to discover about these lesser-known industries, so most were likely either short-lived or stayed very small
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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