WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
6-6:55AM HIIT (Virtual)
9AM Golden High School Graduation @ Marv Kay Stadium (map)
Congratulations to graduating seniors and their families!
9AM-4PM Slash Collection @ Tincup Ridge Park (map)
Jefferson County cycles their slash collection operation to various places around the county. This weekend it’s in Golden.
Any size truck or trailer is welcome at Jefferson County Slash Collection sites. Dump fees are based on six cubic yards (162 cubic feet) of material: six yards is one load. The cost to drop off a single load is $20. Credit cards only. This is equivalent to:
Truck bed full to truck cab height Trailer up to eight feet long by five feet wide by four feet high Loads outside these parameters will be charged accordingly
10AM-12PM Rocky Mountain Quilt Study Group @ Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
10AM Wild West Short Tour
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
10:30AM The Friday Tour @ Colorado Railroad Museum
11:30AM-1PM Social Media Idea Lab @ Golden Library
12-12:55PM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
12-4PM Petit Four Baskets @ Golden Quilt Company
1-1:45PM Silver Sneakers Yoga (Virtual)
1:30PM The Friday Tour @ Colorado Railroad Museum
3PM Vaccine, License & Microchip Clinic @ Foothills Animal Shelter
4:30-5:30PM Ribbon Cutting @ Roots Salon
5-7PM Foothills Art Center Member Event @ Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
The Rocky Mountain National Quilt Museum will have two exhibits on display. Logs on a Roll features a variety of log cabin quilts and 3,000 and Counting will have miniature log cabin quilts from nationally known quilter and certified NQM judge, Amy Pabst. These miniature quilts are all made from 3,000 pieces or more! This event is for Foothills Art Center members only.
7-9PM Opening Night The Oldest Boy: A Play in Three Ceremonies @ Miners Alley Playhouse
Opening Night Means FREE FOOD & DRINK After the Show!
Opening Night Food Provided by The Sherpa House Restaurant & Cultural Center. Come to the show and help us support one of our great community members, The Sherpa House Restaurant & Cultural Center and their favorite cause, The United Sherpa Association of Colorado! All proceeds from the sale of their signature Khumbu Kolsch support this great cause! LEARN MORE HERE
See the complete calendar of events.
LIVE MUSIC
5-8PM Live Music @ Eddy Taproom
5:30PM Tony Schiess @ Over Yonder
6-10PM Bruce Cole @ Wrigley’s
7-10PM Howard Dlugasch @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
7-10PM Wade Sutton @ Morris & Mae
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
In the spring of 1938, the postal service was celebrating the 20th anniversary of air mail service. The Transcript wrote about the event several times through April and May. To help whip up the excitement, the Golden Fire Department organized an essay contest and a “plane building” contest for students.
The Golden post office had a special cachet designed for air mail envelopes distributed during Air Mail Week (May 15-21). “This cachet is designed to illustrate the short time that has elapsed since the days of Buffalo Bill, the pony express and the present rapid air mail service.” Patrons could use the envelopes for regular business or they could send them to Kittyhawk, N.C., where the first airplane flight took place. The Kittyhawk post office would postmark them and send them back.
April 14
The Post Office sponsored an “Air Mail Derby.” People were encouraged to write a letter and send it by air mail. The reply had to be received by May 20th. “The letter averaging the greatest number of miles per hour for the round trip, from the time it is postmarked at the Golden post office to the time its delivery on return is recorded, will be the winner.”
April 28th
“The great interest taken in Air mail Week–sponsored by Golden Firemen May 2 to 7–was most fittingly impressed upon the citizens of Golden Friday–when Lieut. Eugene Cunningham’s National Guard squadron swooped down over the city–evidently the purring of the planes woke some people up.”
May 5th
“As a special feature of National Air Mail Week Golden will have its airmail delivered and picked up by an airmail plane piloted by Ray Wilson of Denver on Thursday, May 19…. Postmaster Pike, who has been successful in arranging this innovation as a part of Golden’s Air Mail Week celebration, has been authorized to mark all in-coming and out-going mail delivered and picked up at Golden by the plane “First Flight” over his signature.”
May 19th (85 Years Ago)
Evidently they couldn’t find a place that a plane could land within the City limits. “The nearest place to Golden that the postal department will authorize the landing of an airmail plane is at Gravel Spur, a short distance out of the city on 44th Avenue.”
They may have had to find still another landing spot. This photo of a map with model airplanes celebrating National Air Mail Week appeared in Irene Goetz’s scapbook. Her hand-written note said: “68 / 30 yr ago May 12 / Spec Feature Air / Mail wk – Golden / had . air mail picked / up by air ml. plane / out near Golden on Old Gol. / Road.”
May 26
It was a successful promotion! “During Air Mail Week 1535 air mail letters, including 814 “First Flight” letters were dispatched from Golden.”
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!
