Virtual Events
9-9:55AM Silver Sneakers Classic
9-10AM Zumba
11-11:55AM HIIT & Sculpt
12-12:55PM All Levels Yoga Virtual
Real World Events
First Day of School – Jeffco Public Schools
8-9AM What’s Brewing Golden @ Golden Hotel
This meeting will include updates from City Council, DDA, City of Golden Police, and the Chamber, along with a business spotlight. What’s Brewing Golden not only offers an opportunity to hear from the City and Chamber, but is a great way for our business community to connect to one another and support one another.
9:15-9:45AM Baby Time @ Golden Library
10-11AM Story Time and Craft @ Colorado Railroad Museum
10:15-10:45AM Preschool Time @ Golden Library
1-3PM Crazy Quilt Sisters @ Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
4PM and 6PM Wild West Short Tour
6-7PM Book Discussion Group @ Golden Library
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
Live Music
6PM Karaoke with Linda @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
6PM Live Music @ Nomad Taqueria
6PM Open Pick Night @ Over Yonder Brewing
Trivia
6:30-8:30PM Team Trivia Tuesdays @ Buffalo Rose
6:30-8:30PM Trivia Tuesdays @ Golden Mill
7PM Trivia Night @ the Ace
7-9PM Team Trivia Night @ Tributary Food Hall
Golden History Moment
77 Years Ago
The August 16, 1945 Colorado Transcript described Golden’s joy and excitement when World War II ended. Radios up and down Washington Avenue were turned on, waiting for the message that the war was over. Word came through at 5:08M on Tuesday, August 14h. After the announcement, the station played the Star Spangled Banner.
From the Transcript:
First indication of celebration in Golden was a car that whizzed down Washington Avenue, horn blaring. That started it. As if on signal, people poured into the street, and the bell at the city hall began to clang; the fire siren and the Coors whistle added their noisy voices to the growing din. Car horns beeped, honked, and tooted their way up and down the Avenue in a spontaneous parade.
Fred Robinson, who owned a bookstore in the Rubey block, brought out his miniature cannon and fired volley after volley into the air. Mr. Robinson had done the same thing on November 11, 1918 at the end of World War I and on VE (Victory in Europe) Day in May of 1945.
Paper floated down from the roof of the Alpine Drug Store (now Goozell Yogurt). Firecrackers popped. Cars sped up and down Washington Avenue. The 84 streetcar blew its horn continuously, and the conductor grinned “like a Cheshire cat.” Mines students built a bonfire at the corner of Washington and 13th, fueling it with an old wooden fence and Colorado Transcripts. A car full of fraternity boys with two kegs of beer drove by, on their way back to the campus. Someone set off dynamite in Clear Creek.
Other articles in that edition reported on the status of Golden’s boys in service, rejoiced that gasoline would no longer be rationed, spoke of the need to keep raising food, and reminded people of the importance of earthworms in gardens. George M. Kimball wrote a column expressing his doubts about the atomic bomb. He suggested that any remaining bombs, and all the scientists who knew how to build them, should be taken to the middle of the ocean and detonated together.
The back page of the paper held a full-page ad for Golden Days (a precursor to Buffalo Bill Days). The event had been planned for quite some time, but the words “Celebrate VICTORY and PEACE” had been added at the top.
Many thanks to the Golden History Museum for providing the online cache of historic Transcripts, and many thanks to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866!