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Christmas Plays and a Bomb Scare

Golden Eye Candy – Nancy Torpey – Extra Rider – enlarge

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?


10AM-5PM Holiday Art Market @ Foothills Art Center
10AM-12PM Rocky Mountain Quilt Study Group @ Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum – CANCELED
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library


10:30AM The Friday Tour @ Colorado Railroad Museum
12-12:55PM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
1-1:45PM Silver Sneakers Yoga (Virtual)
1:30PM The Friday Tour @ Colorado Railroad Museum
3PM Vaccine, License & Microchip Clinic @ Foothills Animal Shelter
5:30 and 7PM Block Distilling Spirits Tasting @ Goosetown Station


7:30PM A Christmas Story @ Miners Alley Playhouse
7:30PM The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical @ Miners Alley Performing Arts Center

SEE THE COMPLETE CALENDAR OF EVENTS.
or
THE CALENDAR SHOWING OLDE GOLDEN HOLIDAYS EVENTS

(Lots of holiday events scheduled tomorrow!)

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CITY MEETINGS

8-10AM Thriving Communities Grants Committee @ City Hall

LIVE MUSIC

4PM Dylan Miles Experience @ Over Yonder
5-8PM Live Music @ Eddy Taproom


5-8PM Kory Montgomery @ Golden Mill
5:30-8:30PM Smörgåsgrass Bluegrass @ Goosetown Station
6:30PM Atomic Drifters and Scooter James @ Columbine Cafe


7-10PM MoBro @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
7PM Hornbuckle Band @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse


8PM Petty Nicks Experience @ Buffalo Rose (main venue)
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern

GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT


85 Years Ago
The December 15, 1938 Colorado Transcript featured an article titled “Bomb Shape Package Creates Big Stir at The Transcript Office.”

Someone had used a Quaker Oats package to mail an object to the Transcript. To add to the excitement, the outside of the package said “Don’t fear, this isn’t a BOMB!” This, of course, made the staff think that it might be a bomb.

The staff considered the package, wondering what they had written to make someone mad enough to send them a bomb. They wondered if they should ask the postmaster, Monty Pike, to open the package, but realized that he had four boys who needed him. The Sheriff seemed like a better prospect (“he’s only a Republican, anyway”). (Have I mentioned that the Transcript was traditionally a Democratic newspaper?)

Then the publisher’s nephew, Neil West Kimball, walked in. The staff realized that Neil came from stern stock: his grandfather, George West, served valiantly in the Civil War; his uncle, Harley West, served in the Spanish-American War, and Neil himself had served in the World War (the first one).

This photo shows the bridge mentioned in the note, which was about where Jackson Street runs in front of Safeway. Excerpted from X-9807, Denver Public Library Western History Collection – enlarge.


Neil picked up the package, shook it, removed the string and wrapping paper, and read the inscription on the box. It was a donation to the newly-forming Jefferson County museum. The package contained a carved parrot in a cage. The card accompanying the donation explained that the bird-in-cage was all carved from a single piece of wood, which was once part of the bridge over Kinney Run at 17th Street. It went on to say that two men had been hanged from that bridge after murdering Reuben Hayward in 1879.

I searched the History Museum’s inventory for the word “parrot,” and they still have it!

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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