WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
9AM Golden Seniors – Coffee Klatch @ Golden Visitors Center
9-10AM Women’s Exercise and Bible Study @ First United Methodist Church
9:15-9:45AM Baby Time @ Golden Library
10:15-10:45AM Preschool Time @ Golden Library
11AM-4PM Tin Star Smokehouse Halloween (map)
11AM-7PM GCB’s Dirty Thirty Bash!
Golden City Brewery is celebrating 30 years with its Dirty Thirty Bash. We will have 1993 prices on pints and growlers (to go) of beer. Costumes are encouraged, staff favorites will win gift certificates. Our beloved piper, Sean Thompson, will be performing original music with his band in the afternoon.
4-6PM Spooktacular Family Fun @ Natural Grocers
5:30-8PM Exploring the Elements of Art – November @ Foothills Art Center – NEW SESSION!
10AM and 1PM Wild West Walking Tour
10AM and 1PM Wild West Short Tour
3-5PM Trick or Treat Street @ Downtown Golden
8-10PM Halloween Horror Mystery Movie Night @ Morris & Mae
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PUB GAMES
6PM Trivia Tuesdays @ Golden Mill
6:30-8:30PM Team Trivia Tuesdays @ Buffalo Rose
6:30-8:30PM Halloween Bar Bingo Night @ VFW Post 4171
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GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
60 Years Ago
The October 31, 1963 Colorado Transcript included an editorial expressing approval for the practice of trick-or-treating. The editors felt that it was a good alternative to the recurring vandalism of earlier Halloweens.
Time was, not too many years ago, when soaped windows and spilled garbage cans were as inevitable as the dawn of the morning following Halloween. Dad would most likely have to get the ladder out and bring the fence gate down from the roof of the house and the little “buildings” [outhouses] had to be set upright before normal family routines could be resumed. There was also a great deal of vandalism, probably far more than today.
About 25 years ago things began to change. Kids were stopped from a window-soaping job by the offer of a kindly housewife to exchange some cookies or candy in exchange for the youngster’ promise to lay off the soap.
As the years passed this nice custom developed into quite a thing. Kids didn’t even take soap along with them any longer–they were too busy collecting goodies in pillow cases, shopping bags or anything else for all the booty they collected while making the rounds. “Tricks or Treats” was the option, and most households paid off.
Colorado Transcript – October 31, 1963
A review of earlier Transcripts provides plenty of evidence of the referenced mischief:
1915 – 4 persons injured in a Halloween “auto party”
1926 – a reward offered for the return of an iron gate taken on Halloween
1927 – soaped windows and “roughness” on the part of larger boys
1929 – playground equipment destroyed, windows soaped
1933 – pranksters’ fires menace property
Perhaps the men who have boasted to their sons of their youthful Hallowe’en pranks now regret it.
Colorado Transcript – October 31, 1929
In 1942, there was a national campaign, asking students to put a stop to Halloween vandalism as a gesture to helping with the war effort. It seems to have been successful in Golden–the Chamber wrote letters to the schools afterwards, thanking the students for the “patriotic” Halloween.
The anti-vandalism efforts continued after the War. In 1958, the Jefferson County Student Council promoted a “Be The Best, Not The Worst on October 31st” campaign.
With the onset of the Baby Boom, adults began to take charge of Halloween. Instead of letting kids run around town, pranking and vandalizing, parents and civic organizations gave big parties, with lots of candy. Door-to-door trick or treating became standard practice. The downtown Halloween extravaganza began in the early 1970s.
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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