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What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Friday, Aug. 8th
- All day - The Friday Tour
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - Live Workouts with Community Center Pros
- All day - Golden History Tours
- 9:30AM - Highway Cleanup
- 9:30-10:30AM - Rooftop Yoga
- 10:15-10:45AM - Outdoor Toddler Time - Registration Required
- 4-8PM - The Fyne Art of David Lozeau
- 5-7PM - Golden Fine Arts Festival Artist Reception / VIBE@5
- 7PM - Movies & Music in the Park
- 7:30PM - OPENING NIGHT: Assassins
- 8PM - Stand-Up Comedy featuring Steve Gillespie
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
10:30AM and 1:30PM Friday Tours @ Colorado Railroad Museum
Each Friday, join us for an hour of exploring a different aspect of Colorado’s railroad history. Guests are welcome to continue their visit on their own after the tour. Each tour covers a specific theme and today our focus will be: Locomotives!
Friday Tour Tickets - $3 each plus General Admission ($10 adults, $5 kids 2-15, $8 seniors 60+). Today's Topic
Location:
Colorado Railroad Museum
17155 W. 44th Avenue (Map)
5-7PM Golden Fine Arts Festival Artist Reception @ The Astor House
Chamber members, artists, event sponsors and community members are invited to join us to kick off the 35th Annual Golden Fine Arts Festival weekend with a welcome reception. Mingle, enjoy light bites, beverages, and live music from Backstreet Jazz at the beautiful Foothills Art Center - Astor House Gallery.
Location
Foothills Art Center at the Astor House
1133 Arapahoe Street (map)
7PM Movies and Music in the Park
Music: The Man Cubs
Movie: Air Bud
The series features free music and a family-friendly movie each Friday night. Bands begin performing at 7:00 p.m., and the featured movie of the night begins at dusk, around 8:30 p.m. The movies are shown on a giant inflatable screen under the stars.
This long-standing and much-loved community event brings together neighbors, friends and family to enjoy a picnic dinner in the park while listening to live music at 7 p.m. Once the sun sets, settle down for a family-friendly movie on a giant screen.
Food is available for purchase from food trucks on site, with dessert provided by Em’s Ice Cream truck! Of course, no movie can be properly appreciated without freshly popped popcorn, provided for sale by local student groups.
More information
Location:
Parfet Park
10th Street and Washington Avenue (Map)
Live Music for Friday, Aug. 8th
6:30PM The Reckless Folk @ Goosetown Station
6:30-9:30 Jack Price @ The Golden Outpost
5-8PM Live Music @ Eddy Taproom
5:30-8:30PM Grey Rails @ Barrels and Bottles
6-10PM Steve & the Cruisers @ Wrigley’s
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
For more information, visit the Golden Today Calendar
Golden History: Water Works
“Stave Pipe” Source: Wikipedia By Duk – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0
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96 Years Ago
Golden’s early water supply system used wooden pipes. They were built of staves, like a barrel, and held in a ring by iron bands. An August 8, 1929 Colorado Transcript article covering the recent City Council meeting tells us when the transition to iron pipes began.
Chas. Benson on the pipe line reported 111 leaks on the 16 inch stave pipe. It will not be long however, before his report will have a different tone for this pipe will be replaced shortly by iron pipe.
This was many decades before we had separate storm and sanitary sewers; in fact, having sewers at all was a pretty recent innovation–they had only been installed about ten years earlier. The City was still discovering the capacity limits to our sewer pipes:
The practice of people running the drain pipes from the eave troughs into the sewers is to be discontinued in the future and people who have them connected that way now are to be notified to change them so as to drain on the surface. The objection is the leaves and other debris that finds their way into the pipes.
Leaves, debris, and all other contents of the sewer drained directly into Clear Creek until the 1950s.
Weather
Overnight: Partly cloudy. Low around 71, with temperatures rising to around 74 overnight. West wind around 12 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Friday: Partly sunny, with a high near 94. West southwest wind 12 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph.
Friday Night: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 61. West wind 5 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Friday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 61°F
Saturday: Mostly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 85°F
Saturday Night: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 60°F
Sunday: Slight Chance Rain Showers then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 79°F
Sunday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 56°F
Monday: Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 84°F
Monday Night: Partly Cloudy, 60°F
Tuesday: Sunny, 90°F
Tuesday Night: Mostly Clear, 62°F
Wednesday: Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 92°F
Wednesday Night: Partly Cloudy, 62°F
Thursday: Mostly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 91°F
News About Golden - August 8, 2025
Miners Alley Performing Arts Center Presents the Tony Award-Winning Assassins
A darkly funny, provocative, and unforgettable look at the American dream gone sideways
GOLDEN, Colo. (Aug. 6, 2025) — Miners Alley Performing Arts Center is proud to present Assassins, the Tony Award-winning musical by Stephen Sondheim, running Aug. 8–Sept. 14, 2025. Directed by Warren Sherrill, with music direction by David Nehls, this provocative, hilarious, and unflinching production couldn’t be more relevant to the moment we’re living in... Read more... Download PDF below.
GLO Park Update: Commissioner's Meeting Recap
By Laura Cardon
Pleasant View Colorado Updates
...Public comment is normally only 15 minutes, but so many people showed up to talk about the GLO Park/Camp George West issue that the commissioners heard more than an hour of testimony! Read more...
Mines women’s soccer team ranked No. 4 in preseason poll
By Corinne Westeman
Golden Transcript
This fall, the Orediggers will have big shoes to fill — their own.
The Colorado School of Mines women’s soccer team was ranked No. 4 among NCAA Division II teams in a recent United Soccer Coaches preseason poll... Read more...
READY, SET...GOLDEN! FALL 2025 REC GUIDE
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