ArtsWeek Starts Today and Finding the Freight House

*Golden Eye Candy – Joyce Davell – Castle Rock and Clouds – enlarge*

Virtual Events

6-6:55AM Cycling
10AM Call In: Mid-Morning Meditation
10-10:55AM Awareness Through Movement
11-11:55AM HIIT & Sculpt

Real World Events

ARTSWEEK Golden Festival Begins

9AM 4^th Annual Plein Air Event Begins
If you walk around town today, you may encounter people painting some of our lovely scenery. These “Plein Air” artists will be working on their paintings between this morning and noon Saturday. The paintings will be on display at a reception on Monday, 5-7PM. Some of them will be available for purchase!

8-10AM DeLong Park Weed Busters @ DeLong Park

*More Tiny Art – Photo by Frank Hanou – enlarge*

9AM Public Art Commission Meeting @ City Hall
The Public Art Commission will discuss the “Itty Bitty” art projects being installed along Washington Avenue and the Clear Creek path. More than half of them have been installed and they will all be in place before a planned public tour on July 13th.

According to the budget shown in the March meeting packet, they will spend $49,000 on an Art Framework Plan, $25,600 for maintenance work on the existing collection, $11,500 on a video about three of the pieces in the collection, $45,000 for one or more new large projects, and $20,000 for small art projects. The itty-bitty art being installed around downtown right now was commissioned for $500/piece.

They are looking for public input regarding the future direction for our public art collection. To that end, they ask that you take an online survey. You must be registered and signed in to Guiding Golden to take the survey.

While you’re on guidinggolden, you might also want to take the survey about the Golden Informer (the monthly newsletter that’s mailed to every household in town). That one also requires that you be registered and signed in.

9:15-9:45AM Baby Time @ Golden Library
10AM and 1PM Wild West Short Tour
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
11AM-12:30PM Golden Community Table @ First United Methodist Church
1-3PM Wild West Walking Tour

5:30-10PM ARTSWEEK EVENT: Stories Worth Telling Festival @ Buffalo Rose
F4D Studio is very excited to present the inaugural Stories Worth Telling Festival in partnership with Foothills Art Center. Centered around the four main values of Compassion, Innovation, Adventure, and Execution; the showcase aims to connect brands, creatives, and filmmakers through the power of story. The Stories Worth Telling Festival will be both a celebration of Golden as well as a way to help bolster the growing artistic community in the area.

6-7PM Ukulele Thursdays @ Golden Library
6:15PM Smudge Sticks @ Earth Sweet Botanicals
6PM Run Club @ Runners Roost

Live Music

5-8PM Shawn Nelson @ Goosetown Station
5PM Tonewood Stringband @ Over Yonder
5PM Bruce Cole @ Wrigley’s

5:30-8:30PM Dave Halchak @ The Golden Mill
5:30PM Colorado Southern Band @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse

6PM Scott Slay @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
6-9PM Hunker Down @ New Terrain Brewing
6:30-8:30PM Matt Leigh @ Tributary Food Hall
8PM Karaoke @ Rock Rest Lodge

Golden History Moment

*The 1870 Freight House, shown in the July 7, 1968 Colorado Transcript – click to enlarge*

54 Years Ago
The July 7, 1968 Colorado Transcript included an article titled “Old Landmark to Disappear.” The building in question was the Colorado Central Railroad freight house, built during the summer of 1870 in anticipation of the first train to reach Golden. It also served as Golden’s passenger depot during several intervals.

*This photo was taken from Castle Rock, probably on September 26, 1870, the day the first train arrived in Golden – Dan Abbott collection – click to enlarge*

The freight house appears in many old photos and maps, including the 1882 Birdseye View Map of Golden:

*Excerpt from the 1882 Birdseye View Map of Golden, with the freight house highlighted – click to enlarge*

*Excerpt from a photo showing railroad buildings in the foreground – Dan Abbott collection – click to enlarge*

Last week, Stuart Sipkin gave a great program at the History Museum, explaining how he uses Google Earth to determine exactly where historic photographs were taken. I thought you might be interested in one of methods I use to locate the site of old buildings.

I often use old maps and compare them to Google Satellite images. I highlight the street grid shown on the map and resize the Google imagine until the streets align. Here’s how I located the old freight house:

*TOP – excerpt from the 1878 Willits Map, redrawn from the original by Dan Abbott BOTTOM – Google Satellite image showing the same area – enlarge*

The 1870 brick building was replaced by a steel structure, which is still used by the railroads that serve Coors.

Satellite image of the replacement building from Google satellite images

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!