Real World Events
Kinney Run Bird Walk
Colorado days are getting longer. Birds are tuning up their singing voices! There are amazing and beautiful birds that call Kinney Run home year-round, pass through in the spring on their way to breeding grounds, or find Golden the perfect place to build a nest and raise a family.
Join Stewards’ bird experts for an early morning bird walk along the Kinney Run trail on May 15th, May 21st or May 22nd. These walks will be open to the public on a first come, first served basis and they fill up fast! Send an email to info@stewardsofgolden.org if you would like to participate. Tell us which day and how many in your party. We will send you additional information later about where to meet and what to bring.
9:30AM Parade of Geese and Steam
The Railroad Museum will hold a parade this morning featuring two steam-powered locomotives and three Galloping Geese. This will be the first time in the museum’s history that such an impressive parade of vintage railroad equipment has been offered.
The festivities continue all day, with rides behind an 1899 steam-powered locomotive or on a Galloping Goose, turntable and blacksmithing demonstrations, indoor and outdoor model railroads, roundhouse tours, and a used railroad book sale. They also have new exhibits about the Pullman Company and railroad communications.
Spike the dog (the museum’s mascot) will also be on hand for photos and selfies. Food, beverages and treats will be available for purchase.
9:30-11:30AM Full Walking Tour @ Dinosaur Ridge
10AM-3PM Brunch at the Rose @ Buffalo Rose
11AM-2PM Wild West Pub Crawl
4-6PM Wild West Walking Tour
2PM Blue Ridge @ Miners Alley Playhouse
11:30AM-12:30PM Yogi Book Club @ Pranatonic
2:30-4:30PM Textile Society @ Golden Library
4-7:30PM Sunday Swing Supper Club with The Flatirons Jazz Orchestra @ Buffalo Rose
10:15PM Full Moon & Lunar Eclipse
The moon will rise at 7:57 PM and set at 5:59 tomorrow morning. There will be a lunar eclipse tonight, beginning at 7:57PM, reaching maximum at 10:11PM, and finishing at 12:50AM.
Live Music
11AM-2PM Green House Trio @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
2PM Sound Bite @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
2-5PM Sturtz @ Golden Mill
3PM Midnight Vinyl @ Wrigley’s
4-7PM Kevin Austin @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
4-7:30PM Sunday Swing Supper Club with The Flatirons Jazz Orchestra @ Buffalo Rose
4PM Tone Dog @ Over Yonder
8PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
Golden History Moment
92 Years Ago
The May 15, 1930 Colorado Transcript reported that the Golden Fire department had saved the old Pennsylvania house hotel from fire twice within ten hours. It was thought that tramps or children had set the fires.
The Pennsylvania was one of several old frame hotels in the Goosetown neighborhood. It was located at 128 Depot Street (map). I searched through old Transcripts to learn more about the business, and most of what I found was unsavory.
August, 1882
Too much firewater after the Saturday visit of the paycar caused the arrest of four well known railroad boys and the subsequent binding over to the district court. They took forcible possession of the Pennsylvania house and set-em-up to all comers despite the objections of the owners, who estimated their injury at three hundred dollars, not even allowing a rebate for the two or more bushels of rocks which the hilarious railroaders had heaved through the windows.
February, 1883
A man by the name of A. R. Russell who keeps the Pennsylvania house, near the freight depot, was arrested on a charge of arson–setting fire to his house
September, 1896
During the storm last Thursday afternoon lightning struck the Pennsylvania House tearing out considerable of the front of the building. No one was injured.
April, 1915
Carrying out the threat she had often made, Mrs. Henry Deublebeis, an aged Golden woman, committed suicide Monday afternoon in a bathtub at her home in the old Pennsylvania house in East Golden. Mrs. Deublebeis had evidently crawled into the tub with the intention of drowning herself, but according to testimony at the coroner’s inquest yesterday her weakened condition caused heart failure when her body became immersed in the ice-cold water. Mrs. Deublebeis had been in poor health for some months, and often told her neighbors that if she was strong enough she would walk to the nearest pond and drown herself.
November, 1915
All day Tuesday and a half day of Monday were occupied in district court in the trial of Tom Linn charged with criminal assault. Wm. Seeley charging that his 14-year-old daughter was the victim…. Henry Deubelbeis, who formerly conducted the Pennsylvania house, was also to be tried for aiding and abetting the alleged crime.
January, 1919
Thomas Mulrooney, aged 61, fell dead of heart disease Sunday morning at his room in the Pennsylvania house.
August, 1928
Fire Chief William Webster and Assistant Fire Chief Wm. Harvey presented an ash pit report in which they stated that they visited 578 properties and only found sixteen that did not have ash pits or metal containers. They pointed out that the Golden House, the Pennsylvania House and the old Palmer house were fire hazards.
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!
