WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
7:30AM Golden Young Professionals Monthly Membership Meeting @ Golden Visitors Center
9-9:55AM Silver Sneakers Classic (Virtual)
9:15-9:45AM Baby Time @ Golden Library
10-10:30AM Call In: Mid-Morning Meditation (Virtual)
10AM Wild West Walking Tour
10AM and 1PM Wild West Short Tour
10AM-5PM Holiday Art Market @ Foothills Art Center
11AM The Story of the Nutcracker @ Miners Alley Playhouse
4-11PM Cheese Night with Cheese Ranch @ Mountain Toad
6PM Run Club @ Runners Roost
6-10PM Wax N’ Suds @ Columbine Café
6PM Holiday Lights Run @ Runners Roost
7:30PM A Christmas Story @ Miners Alley Playhouse
7:30PM The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical @ Miners Alley Performing Arts Center
8:32PM Winter Solstice
This is the shortest day of the year. Sunrise will happen at 7:17AM and sunset at 4:38PM, giving us 9 hours and 21 seconds of daylight.
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CITY MEETINGS
7PM Parks, Recreation and Museums Advisory Board Meeting @ City Hall
PRAM will review their 2023 work plan, which included:
- Monitoring the organic park pilot project at DeLong Park
- Monitoring the transition from Rooney Road sports field to Ulysses Park
- Beginning phase II of the Open Space Master Plan
- Developing the Bachman property as a neighborhood park
- Creating gateway signage (and public art) on the Peaks to Plains Trail
- Supporting the History Museum and Park, including landscape modifications and the Indigenous Tribes study
LIVE MUSIC
5-8PM Shawn Eckels @ Golden Mill
5:30-8:30PM Teague Starbuck @ Mountain Toad
6-9PM Bunny Blake @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
6-8PM Karaoke Extravaganza @ Morris & Mae
6PM Foggy Mountain Spaceship @ New Terrain Brewing
8PM Karaoke @ Rock Rest Lodge
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
About a month ago, I reprinted my favorite “shop local” message from Transcripts of yore:
Golden merchants have an excellent line of Christmas goods and there is no use in journeying to Denver to buy your Christmas goods. Besides, look at the danger of getting murdered, held up, run over or contracting small pox. Buy at home, help your home town and be safe.
Colorado Transcript, December 22, 1921
The following year, the Transcript offered a similar cautionary tale:
101 Years Ago
GOLDEN SHOPPER GETS BUY AT HOME LESSON
…last week a certain Golden lady read in a glaring advertisement in a paper of a neighboring city where a set of silver would be specially priced for one day only, and was a BIG BARGAIN. Next morning she could hardly wait to take the car and get into the pushing, crowding mass that was waiting to get into the store. She finally got in, made her purchase, and started out. On her way she crushed her hat, lost her glasses and was stepped on about a hundred times.
When she got home she unpacked her silver set, put it on the buffet, and ran over to her neighbor’s to tell her to come over and look at her bargain. On entering the neighbor’s home she was surprised to find a set identical to her own gracing the table. Of course, during the conversation it developed that the friend had made her purchase at home and had saved $2.50 besides car fare, to say nothing of the unpleasantness of being jostled around.
Colorado Transcript, December 21, 1922
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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