WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
6-6:55AM Cardio Lift Interval (Virtual)
8AM Members of City Council will tour the City’s water resources, including the Vidler tunnel and Guanella reservoir
8-8:55AM Tai Chi (Virtual)
8:30-9:30AM Power Training (Virtual)
9AM Golden Walks – Wednesday Morning Celebrating Life @ Golden Library
9-10AM Golden Startup Coffee @ Morris & Mae
10AM-4PM Beginning Quilting Class @ Golden Quilt Company
10-10:55AM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
10AM and 1PM Wild West Short Tour
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
12PM and 1:30PM Is He Really Buried Here? @ Buffalo Bill Museum
3-5PM Hard Times Writing Workshop (Virtual)
4-5PM Grow with Kindness @ Golden Library
5-8PM Golden Rotary Palisade Peach Sale @ The Golden Mill
It’s that time of year again! Palisade Peaches are back in season and Golden Rotary will at the Golden Mill pre-selling boxes of peaches. Cant make it Click Here to buy online
5:30-7:30PM Ladies Night Trail Run, Social and Bra Drive! @ Runners Roost
6-7:30PM History, Legacy, and Policymaking in Territorial Colorado, 1861-1876 @ Golden History Museum
This presentation discusses policymaking, political obstacles, cultural conflicts, and institutional racism experienced by Hispano legislators in the wake of the legal establishment of the Territory of Colorado in 1861. These Hispano territorial legislators are introduced as a forgotten piece of Colorado’s early history. The new territorial laws put in place had effects on the lives of the 7,000 Hispano settlers from New Mexico Territory, who were displaced into the newly formed Colorado Territory.
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CITY MEETING
6:30PM Historic Preservation Board Meeting @ City Hall
HPB will hear from the CoorsTek (Clayworks) team on their upcoming site plan submission and demolition.
LIVE MUSIC
4-8PM Chrispy @ Mountain Toad
5-9PM Open Mic @ Cannonball Creek
6-9PM Howard Dlugasch @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
6-9PM Chris Koltak @ Miners Saloon
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
93 Years Ago
This advertisement appeared in the August 9, 1928 Colorado Transcript. The College Inn was a fairly short-lived business that replaced the long-running Avenue Hotel at 1211 Washington Avenue. It opened in about 1927 and closed in 1929.
That narrow window would have been useful in a game of DATE THAT PHOTO. As it happens though, there’s a much better clue. Notice the big plume of smoke in the background? That’s the dance hall on Castle Rock burning, and we know for a fact that the fire occurred on August 7, 1927.
The event got surprisingly little press. An article in the August 11, 1927 Transcript speculated that four youths who had been hanging around the mountain that morning might have started the fire. The owners were out of town when the fire occurred, but it was covered by insurance.
The dance pavilion formed part of the Castle Rock Resort, associated with the Castle Rock Scenic Railway. After the resort failed, the property was used for meetings of the Ku Klux Klan and later became a roadhouse called “Lava Lane.”
The general feeling was that Golden was glad to see it go.
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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