Virtual Events
6-6:55AM Cardio Lift Interval
8-8:55AM Tai Chi
8:30-9:30AM Virtual Power Training
10-10:55AM All Levels Yoga Virtual
10:15-10:45AM Virtual: Preschool Time
11-11:55AM Find Your Balance
3-5PM Hard Times Writing Workshop
5-6PM Arte de mi Corazón
Real World Events
7:30-9AM Citizen Budget Advisory Committee Meeting @ City Hall
CBAC will review the City’s debt management and long-range budgetary policies. This will lead in directly to their next topic, which is the Heart of Golden project. The new lodging tax brought in $133,131 in January and February (the March taxes are coming in this month). The budget had estimated $196K for that time period. The meeting packet says that not all lodging businesses have begun remitting lodging tax, so the city is working with them, to get them started.
9AM Golden Walks – Wednesday Morning Celebrating Life @ Golden Library
9:15-9:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
10AM-3PM Aussie Bag Class @ Golden Quilt Company
12-1PM Golden Chamber Brown Bag “Lunch & Learn”: Putting Out the Fire: Preventing & Managing Burnout” @ Golden Visitors Center
12-1PM Library x Outdoor Recreation – Adventure Cast Series @ Arthur Lakes Library
2-3PM Golden Women in Business Return on Membership
2-9PM End of the Ski Season Celebration @ The Golden Mill
5:30-7PM Golden Orators Toastmasters
5:30PM Clear Creek Subcommittee Forum @ Golden Community Center
The public is invited to discuss Clear Creek crowd management issues.
6-7:30PM Great Decisions: The Quad Alliance
6PM Pong Night @ Coda Brewing
7PM Trivia Night @ Trailhead Taphouse
7:30PM SCRIPTprov – Improv comedy @ Miners Alley Playhouse
Live Music
5-8PM Wylie “Crazy Horse” Jones @ Golden Mill
6-9PM Keith Wren @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
6:30PM Open Jam/Mic at Over Yonder Brewing
Golden History Moment
The Foss Mural – Part 3
This third and final article about the Foss mural discusses my favorite part–the street scene showing Washington Avenue as it would have looked in 1913, the year Foss Drug was founded. The tracks down the middle of the street were used by the Denver & Northwestern electric railroad, which ran from Denver to Golden. The street was still dirt and gravel in 1913: it was paved in the 1920s.
Right Side
The closest building was the Linder Hardware block, which stood at 13th and Washington from the late 1880s to the early 1960s. The building at the opposite end of that block was the Rubey Bank. Still standing, it now contains Golden Goods.
Local historian Richard Gardner, who consulted on the mural when it was originally painted in the 1990s, adds some interesting notes. The man in the top hat was Marty Trausch, a Foss employee at the time the mural was painted. The woman in red, sitting in the wagon, was also a Foss employee. If you zoom in on her, you’ll see she’s wearing modern glasses. The blonde girl next to her represents Golden’s Swedish immigrants.
The center section should be recognizable to modern audiences, as that block is still intact. The pinkish two-story building is the Opera House/Ace Hi Tavern. Next to that is the Harrison block (Creekside Jewelers and Del’s Tonsorial Parlor), and the far corner is the Everett Block (Goozell Yogurt). The woman in the blue skirt was also borrowed from the 1990s: she is Ingrid Gardner, Rick Gardner’s mother and friend of the Foss Family.
The couple standing in front of the Foss Drug Store are the original owner–Henry J. Foss, and his wife, Dorothy Allen Foss. Henry died in the 1918 influenza epidemic, and Dorothy ran the store from that time until her son was old enough to take over. The boy on the bike was doing some time-traveling–he’s Heinie Foss, who wasn’t actually born until 1917. He ran the store from the time he reached adulthood until it closed in 2007. The group of boys playing marbles was suggested by Heinie, as a typical pastime of boys in that era.
The red & white streetcar belonged to the Denver & Northwestern railroad. It traveled from Golden to Denver and back several times a day.
The “M” appears on Mount Zion. It was built in 1908. The Lariat Loop road does not appear, though it was under construction that year.
I love this mural, and I’m happy that the family is maintaining it.
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!
