8AM-1PM Ride Like a Girl at Tony Grampsas Park
Celebrating women cyclists with women-led road and mountain bike rides for all abilities followed by a delicious brunch. sponsored by Big Ring Cycles.
9-10AM Coffee with a Ranger at the Lookout Mtn Nature Center
Bring your own mug!
9AM-12PM Under the M Farm Stand is open
Arugula, Beets, Carrots, Cherry Tomatoes, Garlic, Kale, Summer Squash, Mixed Salad Greens, more….
10-11AM Summer Yoga on the Lawn at Golden City Brewery
Donation based yoga, every Sunday at 10:00 a.m. Get happy hour pricing on your beer afterwards.
Live Music:
Dirty Dogs Roadhouse – Tony Luke Band, 2-6PM
Rock Rest Lodge – Jonathan Browning, 4PM
Wrigley’s Chicago Bar & Grill – Tripwire, 4-8PM
Monday Preview:
From 6-9PM, the Golden-based bluegrass group, Thunder & Rain, will hold a fundraiser to help release their third album. Join them at New Terrain Brewing for a chance to hear the new music and meet the band members.
At 6:30PM, the Historic Preservation Board will discuss the City’s proposal to sell the Astor House.
At 7:30PM, Miners Alley Playhouse will have a special performance of Fairfield to benefit the Denver Actors Fund.
And that is all I have to say on a fairly light news day, so here are several blasts from the past, courtesy of the Colorado Transcript and Golden Transcript:
150 Years Ago – 1869
The Colorado Transcript of August 4, 1869 includes an article speculating as to whether President Ulysses S. Grant would be impeached. An ad for Barnes’ Premium Flouring Mills (now the Golden Mill) offered custom grinding promptly and on liberal terms. Another ad announced a new blacksmith shop on the spot where the Visitors Center now stands. The Astor House had a front page ad saying “This is an entirely new and commodious stone hotel, finished and furnished in good style, with entirely new furniture, bedding, etc., and the traveling public will find it a pleasant and desirable place of entertainment.” The Overland House (now the Buffalo Rose) offered light, airy, and comfortably furnished rooms, the best food available, and good stabling, The proprietor of the Overland House was also the Wells-Fargo agent, so you could buy stagecoach tickets without leaving the hotel.
100 Years Ago – 1919
Golden was recovering from a big flood that took out roads, bridges, and railroads. The agricultural ditches were also damaged, as their banks were washed away. City Council was looking for a way to close down a “certain business concern in town” that was frequented by men and women of doubtful character from Denver.” They also planned to give the mayor the power to close any disorderly dance, dance hall, or any place where persons assemble and engage in disorderly conduct, use intoxicating liquor, engage in disorderly or immoral amusements or exhibition. They were also outlawing bawdy houses. The Golden Savings Bank was paying 4% interest. The town had a new physician, recently returned from serving in France during the Great War.
50 Years Ago – 1969
Golden Gate Canyon State Park was dedicated. It was only the second state park in Colorado; the other being Lathrop State Park near Walsenburg. The paper ran a two-page spread of photos from Buffalo Bill Days. Unemployment was at 3.6%. The newly-built Gold Apartments at 615 Water Street (map) had begun leasing because they planned to open soon.
Thanks to the Golden History Museum for their ongoing work to digitize the historic Transcripts, and thanks, also, to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866.
