Dinosaurs and Railroads, Two Plays, and Losing Big Trees

*Golden Eye Candy – Frank Hanou – The Moon, the Clouds, and the History Park – enlarge*

What’s Happening in Golden Today?

6-6:55AM HIIT (Virtual)
8:30-9:30AM Power Training (Virtual)
9AM-2PM Fashion Show (in conjunction with Colorado Women’s Day) @ Truly BoHotique
10AM Wild West Walking Tour
10AM, 1 and 4PM Wild West Short Tour
10-11:30AM NREL – Public Campus Experience (Virtual)

10-10:30AM TriceraTOTs @ Dinosaur Ridge Discovery Center
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
3-7PM Women’s Day Celebration @ Truly BoHotique
4-7PM Family Climb Night @ American Mountaineering Center
5-6:30PM Healthy Skin Club @ Earth Sweet Botanicals

7PM The Spongebob Musical @ Golden High School
7:30PM Shark Box Theater: Don’t Dress for Dinner @ American Mountaineering Center

Live Music

5-8PM Live Music @ Eddy Taproom
5-8PM Good for Nothin Thunder Mountain Boys @ Over Yonder

7-10PM Conal Rosanbalm @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)

7-10PM Treena B @ Morris & Mae

8PM That Eighties Band @ Buffalo Rose (main venue)
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern

Golden History Moment

*Golden, circa 1903, showing the big trees along 9th Street – Denver Public Library Western History Collection – enlarge*

85 Years Ago
The March 10, 1938 Colorado Transcript offered this sad article: “90-Year Old Trees Felled to Make Way For Street Widening.”

Some of the oldest residents of Golden are going to their last reward this week.

The article explained that the massive cottonwood trees that lined Ninth Street west of Washington Avenue were slated to be cut down. The City was planning to widen the street. WPA workers were going to be installing curbs and gutters.

These giant trees were planted by the city’s first settlers in the late 1850s and the early 1860s. They have attained a growth of over 50 feet and the trunks of some of them are more than 15 feet in diameter. Their removal is a ticklish job to prevent damage to houses as they are taken out to make way for an improved street.

*This earlier photograph from the Denver Public Library shows that same neighborhood before the trees were planted. DPL estimates that the photo was taken between 1860 and 1880 – enlarge*

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!