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8-10AM Geology of North Table Mountain Park @ North Table Mountain Park
9-10AM Keg Conditioning @ Golden Mill
9:30-11:30AM Full Walking Tour @ Dinosaur Ridge
10AM, 1PM, and 4PM Wild West Short Tour
6PM Wild West Pub Crawl
10AM-noon Breakfast Burritos @ The Golden Mill
10AM-3PM Brunch at the Rose @ Buffalo Rose
SEE THE COMPLETE CALENDAR OF EVENTS.
LIVE MUSIC
12PM William Topley Acoustic Brunch@ Buffalo Rose (main venue)
1PM Junk Yard Dawgs @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
3PM Izzy and The Icebreakers @ Over Yonder
3-7PM 2nd Time Around @ Wrigley’s
4-7PM Luke Amelang @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
8PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
87 Years Ago
The July 2, 1936 Colorado Transcript found Golden planning “a little jollification” to celebrate installation of new streetlights in the downtown business district. The plan was to have Mayor Jones push the button turning on the lights while the aldermen (city councilors) stood in attendance. The manager of the electric company would give a speech. A quartet of Kiwanis would sing some songs, followed by “a charming chorus of business girls.” Then they would have a dance on the well-illuminated street.
The City had had a few streetlights prior to this time, but they were widely spaced and of low voltage. A 1910 article said that downtown had 8 streetlights, each 200 candle power (approximately equivalent to a 150 watt light bulb).
The new, 1936 lights were described as “Golden’s Great White Way.” The paper enthused that the new lighting “will greatly facilitate evening window shopping, which will be a real pleasure with the marvelous new stocks of merchandise now on display by Golden merchants. Heretofore, persons who wanted to see goods being shown in many show windows at night would have had to carry a flash light or a candle.”
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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