WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
7:45AM New and Prospective Member Hike @ Apex Trail
9AM-5PM ARTSWEEK Golden – Festival @ 12th & Arapahoe
9-10AM Keg Conditioning @ Golden Mill
10AM-noon Breakfast Burritos @ The Golden Mill
10AM-3PM Brunch at the Rose @ Buffalo Rose
12-2PM Full Walking Tour @ Dinosaur Ridge
9AM-12PM Elks Soccer Shoot @ Denver Kickers Sports Club
SEE THE COMPLETE CALENDAR OF EVENTS.
LIVE MUSIC
11AM-2PM Jonny Sterling @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
1PM Big Hooray Bluegrass @ Over Yonder
2-5PM Alibi @ Golden Mill
2-6:30PM Cory Branan – Swindlin’ Hearts – Hospital Socks @ Goosetown Station
3-7PM Sound Bite @ Wrigley’s
4-7PM Ross Henderson @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
8PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
47 Years Ago
In June of 1976, Golden was concerned about a new massage parlor that had opened at 1418 Ford Street. Within days after its opening, Mayor Crawford said he had received 60-70 complaints about the business. A week later, he reported that he had received “far more.”
Denver had fought the existence of massage parlors by passing an ordinance stating that massages were illegal when provided by persons of the opposite sex. The Captain of the Denver Vice Squad said that “all they (massage parlors) really are are houses of prostitution.” Lakewood soon enacted a similar ordinance. Edgewater followed suit, but added amendments making it “legal for people like barbers to give head massages and wives to massage their husbands.”
(Which makes one wonder what “people like barbers” might encompass.)
On June 28, 1976, approximately 55 people attended the City Council meeting to object to the Golden Touch Massage Parlor. They presented Council with petitions containing 289 names. They passed the ordinance making massage by people of the opposite sex illegal, though they added the amendment saying that a wife could massage her husband.
(Which makes one wonder whether a husband could massage his wife.)
In July, the business was served with two summons for violating the ordinance and by early September, they had closed their doors “for lack of business.” Other Colorado cities continued to pass anti-massage ordinances, though standards were often more relaxed in unincorporated areas.
In December of 1977, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that the anti-massage parlor ordinances were unconstitutional. In January of 1978, Golden’s city attorney recommended that Council repeal Golden’s ordinance.
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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