‘Tis the Night Before the Night Before Christmas

*Golden Eye Candy – Richard Luckin – Buffalo Bill and the Lights – enlarge*

What’s Happening in Golden Today?

*Thanks to Bud Rockhill for venturing out into sub-zero temperatures to capture our very cold but festive-looking cyclist – enlarge*

6:30-7:15AM HIIT (Virtual)
8:30-9:30AM Power Training (Virtual)
10AM-5PM Holiday Art Market @ Foothills Art Center
Foothills Art Center and the Holiday Art Market will be closed tomorrow.
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
3:30-4:30PM Wild West Short Tour
7:30PM A Christmas Story @ Miners Alley Playhouse
This FINAL performance is sold out, but you can call the box office to see if they’ve had any cancellations.

Live Music

5-8PM Live Music @ Eddy Taproom
7PM Howard Dlugasch @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern

Golden History Moment

*Circa 1907 and circa 2020 – (top) Golden History Museum Collection (bottom) Google Earth – enlarge*

The top map comes from a 1907 brochure that advertised the “Wishbone Route.” This was a three hour trolley tour that went from Denver to Leyden, then to Golden. The lower map is a similar view today, taken from Google Earth.

The older map shows the area between Denver and Golden as solidly agricultural. The lower map is solid suburbia. Most of that growth occurred after World War II.

Arvada’s population was 1,482 in 1940. Now it’s approximately 123,000.

Golden’s population was 3,175 in 1940. Now it’s approximately 20,000.

Wheat Ridge and Lakewood were both incorporated semi-rural/semi-suburban areas until they both incorporated in 1969.

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!