What’s Happening in Golden Today?
9-9:55AM Silver Sneakers Classic (Virtual)
9:15-9:45AM Baby Time @ Golden Library
10-10:30AM Call In: Mid-Morning Meditation (Virtual)
10-10:55AM Chair Yoga (Virtual)
10-11:30PM Everything Dinosaur Lecture – Pachycephalosaurs @ Dinosaur Ridge Discovery Center
4PM Wild West Short Tour
4-7PM Golden Women in Business Happy Hour @ The Eddy Taproom & Hotel
Join us as we mingle with the local Lions Club Chapter. Learn about the groups they support with their volunteer and fundraising events.
5-6PM Demolition Derby @ Golden Library
Grab your hard hats for a demolition derby! Push your engineering skills to their limits as you crush, smash and destroy obstacles, buildings and more. Builders from all skill levels are welcome. Registration required: register for event
6PM Run Club @ Runners Roost
7-9PM Environmental Ethics – Why Green isn’t Black or White @ Jefferson Unitarian (map)
To many environmental activists and technocratically minded people any course of action that supports keeping this planet habitable instinctively (or reflexively) gets an instant green light. But on closer look quite a few conflicting interests come into focus with issues such as geo-engineering or artificial meat or lithium mining on indigenous people’s land.
Here to help avoid muddy thinking is philosophy professor Benjamin Hale, who teaches at CU Boulder in Philosophy and in Environmental Studies on ethical questions associated with environmental remediation, public health, moral status, and the tools of public policy. As usual we’ll have a free reception with food and drinks afterwards, so please plan on staying for more conversations with fellow participants and the presenter.
Live Music
5-8PM Dave Halchak@ Golden Mill
5-8PM Brian Grace @ Goosetown Station
5-8PM Teague Starbuck @ Mountain Toad
5:30-8:30PM Tony Schiess @ Over Yonder
6-9PM Keith Wren @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
6PM Scott Slay & The Rail @ New Terrain Brewing
8PM Karaoke @ Rock Rest Lodge
Golden History Moment
“Motels” were developed along with the rise of automobiles. The word is a contraction of “motor” and “hotel.” They differ from hotels in that they are designed so you can park right in front of your own room. They became particularly popular after World War II, as automobile ownership grew and post-war affluence allowed for increasing travel.
The Golden Motel was located at the intersection of 24th and Ford Streets. The first reference I find to this business is in the Colorado Transcript, fall of 1947. The building still remains, but it no longer serves as a motel. I believe it closed in about 2008. At any rate, that was the year I took this picture:
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!
