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Coffee with Councilors, Super Cruise, and Telephony

Golden Eye Candy – Jesse Crock – Sunset in Golden – enlarge

Virtual Events

9-10AM Zumba
1-2:30PM Virtual: Dungeons & Dragons for Beginners
3:30-5PM Virtual: Dungeons & Dragons for Advanced Players


Real World Events

8AM-1PM Golden Farmers Market @ Golden Library west parking lot
9:30AM-12PM Walk With a Geologist @ Dinosaur Ridge
10AM Coffee With Councilors @ Calvary Episcopal Church Celebration Plaza
10AM-3PM Brunch at the Rose @ Buffalo Rose

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10AM-3PM Saturday Train Rides @ Colorado Railroad Museum
10:15AM Family Time @ Golden Library
12-12:45PM Get Spiralized & Satisfied @ Natural Grocers

Golden Super Cruise – enlarge

5-8:30PM Golden Super Cruise
7:30PM HAIR @ Miners Alley Playhouse


Live Music

11AM-2PM Live Music @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
12PM Facebagel @ Tributary Food Hall

1-4PM Shawn Eckles @ Golden Mill
1PM Junkyard Dawgs @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
2PM Marafiki @ Mountain Toad
4-7PM Wrecklunds @ Coda Brewing
4PM Strange Brew @ Wrigley’s
5-8PM Burgundy Ties @ Golden Mill
5-8PM Good for Nothin’ Thunder Mountain Boys @ Goosetown Station

7-10PM Howard Dlugasch @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern


Golden History Moment

143 Years Ago
The September 3, 1879 Colorado Transcript boasted of Golden’s up-to-date telephone service. In the 1870s, telephony was the hottest technology around, and it was a fiercely competitive business. Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison were both hoping to dominate the field by being the first provider to serve every town and hamlet in the country.

Colorado Bell Telephone’s first office in Golden, on the 2nd floor of the Everett building (now Goozell Yogurt) – click to enlarge

The race came to Golden in September of 1879. Bell Telephone had been installing new polls between Denver and Golden, while Colorado Edison planned to use the ones already in place, belonging to Western Union. They both needed to string telephone wire to connect the two towns.

Bell Telephone began the work in Denver at 8:30AM on September 1, 1879 and reached Golden at 7PM. By 7:30 that evening, they had placed their first call to Denver.

Colorado Edison completed their wiring and placed their first call ten minutes later.

The neck-and-neck competition was exciting, but short-lived. By December of 1879, Edison’s telephone company had retreated from Golden, leaving us with Bell Telephone as our sole provider.

Sources: September 3, 1879 Colorado Transcript and September 2, 1954 Colorado Transcript


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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