Virtual Events
6-6:55AM Virtual Dynamic Circuit
8:30-9:30AM Virtual Power Training
10-10:55AM All Levels Yoga Virtual
11-11:55AM Find Your Balance
12-12:30PM Mondays with Mayor Weinberg
2-3PM Active Minds – Space Exploration: From the Moon Landing to Today and Beyond
4-4:30PM Kids Martial Arts Class
6-7:30PM Virtual: Teen Short Story Writing Camp
Real World Events
9:15-9:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
10:15-10:45AM Let’s Dance @ Golden Library
11AM and 4PM Wild West Walking Tour
2PM, 4PM, and 6PM Wild West Short Tour
3-4PM Dive Into Magic with Magic Rob @ Golden Library
6:30PM Downtown Development Authority Meeting @ City Hall
The DDA will appoint a representative to the Special Events Review Committee. This committee includes four City employees (Special Events/Communications, Parks, Visit Golden; and a Golden events ambassador), one downtown business owner, two board representatives (PRAM and DDA), and one Golden resident. They control a $25,000 special event grant program. The DDA also maintains a special events grant budget, of $10,000.
They will continue to discuss lighting Miners Alley. CDOT recently granted them $38.625.33 to accomplish the work.
The City may pave Prospectors Alley between 14th and 15th.
The City is getting designs and estimates to renovate the public restroom next to the Astor House. They may also renovate the Parfet Park restroom.
Staff is hoping to change the planters “to improve aesthetics and accommodate the new trash and recycling containers being purchased by the City.”
Their business meeting will be followed by their Annual Meeting, in which they appoint board members to serve on committees. The committees include Development and Operations; Grants; Legacy Fund Task Force; Visit Golden Liaison; and Special Event Review Committee.
They will conclude with an Executive Session (no public, no cameras) “regarding a potential Intergovernmental Agreement with the City of Golden for contracted services.”
Golden History Moment
43 Years Ago
The July 18, 1979 Golden Transcript was promoting events planned for the upcoming Buffalo Bill Days weekend. One of the highlights would be Golden Landmarks Association’s ice cream social, in the back yard of the Astor House. The servers would be based in the gazebo, and chairs and tables were set out to allow people to relax in the garden
In 1972, Golden’s citizens voted to preserve the Astor House. Members of the Golden Landmarks Association threw themselves into the work of restoring both the house and the yard. By 1979, the yard was an oasis of trees and flowers, including a reconstructed gazebo.
GLA member Gene Child spearheaded the effort to rebuild the gazebo, which had stood in the yard in the early 20th century. The gazebo was later turned into a storage shed, and remnants of the shed were still in the yard when the City acquired the property. Gene used those remnants to determine the dimensions of the original structure.
GLA received a $2,000 grant from the Colorado Centennial/Bicentennial Commission to fix up the “Golden Legislative Park” (backyard of the Astor House), including the gazebo. Gene appealed to Warren Tech school for carpentry help. The students built the structure at the school. The City moved it to the park, and Golden High School Key Club members provided the muscle to move it into position.
“I think it adds a lot to the park,” Childs said, wiping his brow after completing work on the gazebo. “On a nice day it will give somebody a good place to take a lunch break.”
After the Astor House Museum was dismantled, the little park went through a period when no one was claiming or maintaining it. It was filled with weeds and strewn with empty liquor bottles. When the City cleaned it up in 2020, they found that people had been camping in the gazebo, so they removed 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!
