Public Health References
CDC * Colorado * Jefferson County * City of Golden
JCPHD updates these numbers Monday through Friday at about 3 PM. The next update will appear in Tuesday morning’s email.
Jefferson County mask rule: masks must be worn both indoors and outdoors in public spaces where 6 feet distance cannot be maintained. This matches Golden’s requirement. The rest of the state requires masks only indoors. The Safer at Home and in the Vast, Great Outdoors protocol is in effect statewide. City and County fire restrictions are in place.
Virtual Golden
6:30-7:25AM Virtual Dynamic Circuit
9-10AM Virtual Power Training
10:15-11:15AM Cuentacuentos en español / Spanish Story Time with the Library
6:30PM GURA Meeting Cancelled
Real World Golden
6PM Gentle Yoga in the Yard – Golden Well Being Collective, 410 9th St. (map) – For additional info email goldenyogasanctuary@gmail.com
Golden History Moment
For those of you who don’t check email over the weekend, on Saturday I wrote about Golden’s reaction to the Bomb in 1945, and on Sunday I wrote about a 1930 fire on 12th St.
You’ve likely seen this picture before. Have you ever wondered why there are people frolicking around the brewery and boating in the ponds?
When the brewery was new, and for several decades afterwards, Coors had a beer garden, picnic grove, and mini-amusement park on the grounds. The area had trees, picnic tables, and swings. The ponds, which Coors built to make ice in the winter, were open to boating and even swimming. Coors sold beer and other refreshments and they rented out the grounds for group picnics.
The Golden community often celebrated the 4th of July on the Coors grounds, and the Colorado Transcript sometimes referred the grove as “the Golden Park.”
References to the “pleasure grounds” began to disappear around the turn of the century, and the grove became more of a personal yard for the Coors family. Adolph Coors and his wife raised their family in the mansion on the grounds, and in later years, cottages were built as the next generation married and started families of their own.
The brewery buildings eventually crowded out the old trees.
