61 Years Ago
On June 10, 1965, Golden’s brand-new Dairy Queen on 8th Street was celebrating its Grand Opening. According to the Transcript, the owner–Lee Vernon–had visited his brother here in the mid-1930s and liked the town.
In later years, he built a second Dairy Queen on South Golden Road and eventually sold the one on 8th Street. It remained an ice cream store but wasn’t part of the Dairy Queen chain. The building is now El Dorado Mexican restaurant. When you compare the photo with the ad above, its origins are apparent.
