WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
MINES HOMECOMING CELEBRATION
8AM 5k Kafadar (registration closed)
9AM Homecoming street fair Q Lot
10AM Homecoming tailgate Q Lot
12PM CSM Football vs Chadron State Marv Kay Stadium
6:30PM FSL Homecoming Concert (Mob Rich) D Lot
8AM-1PM Golden Farmers Market @ Golden Library west parking lot
8AM Saturday Morning Run and Social Walk @ Golden History Park
10AM-3PM Brunch at the Rose @ Buffalo Rose
10:15AM Family Time @ Golden Library
10AM-3PM Saturday Train Rides @ Colorado Railroad Museum
12-12:45PM Sweet Potato Reigns Supreme @ Natural Grocers
12PM OkTOADer Fiesta @ Mountain Toad Brewing
12-6PM Celebrating 150 Years – Coors @ Parfet Park
Join Coors as they celebrate their 150th anniversary with a big street festival in the town where it all began – Golden, Colorado. This memorable event will feature a lineup of live musical performances, local artisans, brewery tours, limited-edition merch, and great food and beer. More information
While you’re downtown, check out the display in the windows at 805 13th St. (map). The Gardner family (which owns the building) is celebrating Coors’ anniversary by showing some of their rare Coors artifacts.
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LIVE MUSIC
11AM-2PM Southside Mike @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
11:30AM Drew Syed @ Tributary Food Hall
12-3PM Andre LaMotte @ Mountain Toad
1PM Brian Hornbuckle @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
4-6PM Los Bohemios @ Mountain Toad
4-8PM 6202 Band @ Wrigley’s
5PM The Grind 5280 @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
5-8PM Live Music @ Eddy Taproom
5:30-8:30PM Big Hooray @ Goosetown Station
6-8PM Live Music with DJ GLICH @ Morris & Mae
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
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GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
COORS @ 150
Golden was beyond excited in April of 1933. Prohibition was over and Coors was about to start shipping beer again. To many Golden families, this meant the worst of the Depression was over too.
Ho! Hum! Another election day has come and gone, but “when de we get beer” continues to be the question of the hour.
Colorado Transcript – April 6, 1933
The April 6, 1933 Colorado Transcript reported that at one minute after midnight on Friday April 7th, a “train of 21 refrigerator cars, loaded to capacity with Coors’ real beer…will pull out of the yards at Coors’ Golden brewery. Simultaneously with the departure of the train, more than 100 trucks piled high with the eagerly-awaited beverage will leave Coors’ brewery for Denver and other points.”
The brewery was already employing 125 men and working three shifts. The bottling plant was running 24 hours a day.
A Transcript caller, who is supposed to be well informed about such matters and who spent much time hunting for the corner around which prosperity was supposed to be lurking, tells us that prosperity wasn’t around a corner, but behind a beer keg.
Colorado Transcript – April 6, 1933
The same edition of the paper announced that local farmers would be planting barley, as Coors would need plenty of it and would pay cash.
Happy days were here again!
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!
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