What’s Happening in Golden Today?
6:30-7:15AM HIIT (Virtual)
8-9AM Morning StART with Liz Lautrip @ Foothills Art Center
8:30-9:30AM Power Training (Virtual)
10-11:30AM NREL – Public Campus Experience (Virtual)
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
12-12:55AM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
10:30 and 1PM The Friday Highlights Tour (1 hour) @ Colorado Railroad Museum
3PM Vaccine, License & Microchip Clinic @ Foothills Animal Shelter
6-8PM Teen After Hours: Mario Kart Tournament @ Golden Library
Live Music
5-8PM Live Music @ Eddy Taproom
5-8PM Earl Nelson & The Company @ Over Yonder
5:30-8:30PM Chris Thompson & the Ullrgrass Pickers @ Golden Mill
7-10PM David Henning @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
7-10PM Parmalee Gulch Ramblers @ Morris & Mae
8PM Smokin’ (Boston Tribute) @ Buffalo Rose (main venue)
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
Be A Firefighter!
Golden Fire Department is currently taking applications for new volunteers to join our team. The deadline for applications is this Sunday January 15th. I was hoping your website could help get the word out to encourage more folks to apply. I’ve linked the website below for further information. I’ve also attached a couple of images that could work well. Let me know if you need more information. Thanks so much for your time and consideration!
www.cityofgolden.net/government/departments-divisions/fire
Golden History Moment
Several years ago, I heard a radio interview with the author of Once Upon A Playground, which was a history of playgrounds and playground equipment. As a child, Brenda Biondo had spent many happy hours playing in public parks. Thirty years later, when she had her own child, she noticed that the styles of playground equipment had changed in the interim years. Gone were the molten-hot metal slides and the whiplash-inducing (but fun!) merry-go-rounds of old. They had been replaced by safer plastic equipment.
This inspired Ms. Biondo to travel around, searching out old playgrounds with old equipment, which she began to photograph. That sounded like exactly the kind of project I would undertake, and I was so intrigued that I bought the book. I learned that playgrounds were developed as part of the Progressive movement in the early 20th century. They were a new idea, designed to keep kids busy, healthy, and out of trouble. They soon began to appear in towns across the country.
Now here’s the Golden connection:
113 Years Ago
The January 13, 1910 Colorado Transcript announced that the graduating class of 1910 planned to purchase playground equipment as their class gift to the school.
The playground movement has assumed large proportions all over the country, and many kinds of apparatus have been devised by which children can get exercise and fun at the same time. These include teeter boards, merry-go-rounds, chute-the-chutes, flying rings, swings, etc.
The students were in rehearsal for their senior play, and planned to donate the ticket proceeds to the playground fund. When they learned of this plan, the Golden Improvement Club–a precursor to the Golden Chamber of Commerce–pledged to contribute to the project.
The following June, at commencement, the class presented the Golden schools with two sets of playground equipment–one for the North School and one for the South School.
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!
