COVID Updates
Appointments to Get the COVID Vaccine (Eligibility)
State of Colorado’s Find Out Where You Can Get Vaccinated page
Safeway | King Soopers | Lutheran Medical Center
New: Jefferson County has a vaccination clinic in Arvada, which they will open to those who are 70 or older, starting tomorrow (Feb 3). Learn more….
Also New: Educators and people 65+ will be eligible for vaccines starting Monday, February 8th. Learn more….
The state has a new hotline to answer questions, including location of vaccine providers: 1-877-268-2926. It is staffed 24 hours a day.
Jefferson County Case Summary:
Cases in Jeffco – Thurs: 34,363| Mon: 34,755 (+392)
Deaths in Jeffco – Thurs: 713 | Mon: 714 (+1)
Currently Hospitalized in Jeffco – Thurs: 30| Mon: 31 (+1)
Known Cases in Golden – Thurs: 1314 | Mon: 1344 (+30)
Recovered – Thurs: 32,341 | Mon: 32,817 (+476)
Public Health References
Mines COVID Testing | Jeffco Fairgrounds COVID Testing | School of Mines COVID-19 case page. | Sign up for exposure notifications | CDC | Colorado | Jefferson County | City of Golden | Jefferson County is at Level Orange, “High Risk.”
Virtual Events
10:15AM Toddler Time with the Library
10AM-12PM and 1-3PM Hexie Ladies @ Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
1-2:30PM Zoom into Watercolor with Janet Nunn
2PM South Golden Merchants’ Meeting
6-7PM Recursos Digitales
6-7:30PM Let’s Talk – Romance
Real World Golden
11AM The Parks, Recreation, and Museum Advisory Board will meet with Jefferson County Open Space at the Lubahn Trail . They will consider the sustainability of this popular but hard-to-maintain route to the summit of South Table Mountain.
4PM till they run out: Prime Rib Tuesday at the Buffalo Rose
10oz prime rib, gouda potatoes, green beans, dinner roll – $25. Dine in or carry out!
Golden History Moment
52 Years Ago
The February 2, 1969 Colorado Transcript reports on a speech given to the Chamber of Commerce by the new owner of a defunct amusement park. Magic Mountain was an unsuccessful attempt to recreate Disneyland. It opened in 1959 and closed the following year. The property remained unused for several years, but in 1969 it was purchased by a Steven Arnold, a real estate developer.
Asked what he planned to do with the property, he “spoke mostly of what his company, the Woodmore Corp., was not going to do. They are not going to build an amusement park.” He said he was “leaning in the direction of some type of residential area. Perhaps it will be homes, town houses or something of this nature.”
This is interesting in that the property did later become an amusement park, and the one thing that the current owners–Martin Marietta Materials–insist it not become is residential property.
By 1971, Steven Arnold had decided to use the area as an arts and crafts village, with individual crafters renting studios and selling their goods. At various times, candle making, glass blowing, blacksmithing, leatherworking, ceramics, jewelry making, and several other crafts were represented.
Arnold’s company declared bankruptcy in 1974 and the property went into receivership. Eventually, the quarry next door bought Heritage Square. They allowed it to operate as an amusement park, shopping area, special events center, and live theater spot. Their overriding objective was to ensure that the property would not be redeveloped by someone who would complain about having a quarry next door.
Martin Marietta Materials closed Heritage Square in 2015. They are currently negotiating with Jefferson County Open Space to trade the Heritage Square property for undeveloped land south of the quarry.
Many 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!
