Building Taking Shape
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What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Friday, Jan. 31st
- 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
- All day - UllrGrass Festival
- 10:15-10:45AM - Toddler Time - Registration Required
- 5-8PM - Harleys After Dark
- 7:30PM - Morning After Grace
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
UllrGrass All Weekend
The 3-day festival, UllrGrass (named for the Norse God of Winter – Ullr - pronounced ooler) is the brain child and passion project of Chris and Susannah Thompson, long-time Golden residents who felt Golden needed a signature event in the middle of winter to bring the community together. Festival-goers dress in Viking regalia and celebrate community, live music, performing arts and craft beer.
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Live Music for Friday, January 31st
5-8PM Live Music @ Eddy Taproom
6-9PM Hunter Stone Duo @ Goosetown Station
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
Golden History: A Cross Section of History
Sarell’s 84th Birthday in 1935, World World I Rationing in 1918, Cemetery Hill site of accident in 1929, and Downtown in the late 1970s – enlarge
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Some news days are better than others. In looking through a century and a half worth of January 31 editions of the Transcript, I came up with several items that would make good articles. Here they are in brief:
1918 – The U.S. had entered World War I, and the federal government had instituted “Victory Rationing.” Each household was to observe one meatless, two wheatless, and two porkless days each week.
1929 – A car plunged over a sixty-foot embankment near the old cemetery north of Golden. The driver suffered internal injuries and six broken ribs. Her seven year old son was thrown clear of the car and escaped uninjured.
1935 – Golden businessmen honored 84 year old William Sarell on his birthday. Sarell arrived in Golden in 1864. His wife of 58 years had arrived in 1874, so he wasn’t sure that she qualified as “a pioneer.” Sarell owned the hardware store that later became Meyer Hardware.
1946 – Despite Golden’s housing shortage, returning GI’s were pouring into the School of Mines. “They didn’t win the war by getting discouraged, and they are not discouraged now–even when they have to endure hardships comparable with the fox holes.”
1952 – Television was coming to Colorado “so we will be engulfed in the arguments of what’s right and what’s wrong for children to see on television.” Interesting that the subject was the first thing people thought of when anticipating television.
1963 – Foss Drug was celebrating 50 years. The previous year, Mr. Foss had purchased land for a 75-car parking lot at 13th and Arapahoe. “It did not take long before a ‘no vacancy’ sign could have been displayed during most peak shopping hours….” More recently, Foss had purchased land across the street, at 12th and Arapahoe, for use as a 20-car employee parking lot.
1978 – A town meeting was called to discuss how to spend $100,000 raised by the Civic Foundation to improve downtown. Participants favored brick sidewalks, benches, and flower boxes. Other suggestions included adding parking lots, eliminating parking on Washington Avenue, adding a park with entertainment features, bulldozing Hested’s, turning Hested’s into a shopping mall, making downtown look more western, adding a trolley, and eliminating the arch.
1991 - Coors Ceramics Company was asking City Council to vacate half a block of 9th Street next to their plant. (That half block will be re-opened as part of the Clayworks project.) Jack and Joy Brandt received the Civic Award from the Golden Chamber for their many community efforts, ranging from heading the Civic Foundation auction to working on the Golden High School After-Prom Party. Governor Roy Romer had given the keynote address at the Chamber's annual banquet.
Weather
Overnight: Clear, with a low around 30. West wind around 12 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Friday: Sunny. High near 56, with temperatures falling to around 51 in the afternoon. Southwest wind 6 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 17 mph.
Friday Night: Mostly cloudy. Low around 36, with temperatures rising to around 41 overnight. West southwest wind 8 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Friday Night: Mostly Cloudy, 36°F
Saturday: Partly Sunny, 56°F
Saturday Night: Mostly Cloudy, 39°F
Sunday: Partly Sunny, 57°F
Sunday Night: Partly Cloudy, 41°F
Monday: Mostly Sunny, 61°F
Monday Night: Partly Cloudy, 39°F
Tuesday: Mostly Sunny, 63°F
Tuesday Night: Partly Cloudy then Slight Chance Rain And Snow, 36°F
Wednesday: Chance Rain And Snow, 53°F
Wednesday Night: Chance Rain And Snow, 29°F
Thursday: Chance Light Snow, 47°F
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Buffalo Rose, Buglet Solar, Foothills Art Center, Golden City Brewery, Golden Cultural Alliance, Miners Alley Performing Arts Center, The Golden Mill, Golden Chamber of Commerce, Golden History Tours, Miners Saloon, Golden Hayride Outpost, Unite Fitness, Tom Reiley, and Michael Mason
Friends:
($50-99.99/month or $550/yr)
Tall Pines Painting, Baby Doe’s Clothing, Goozell Yogurt & Coffee Paul Haseman, Donna Anderson, Carol & Doug Harwood, Beth Bidwell, Stephanie Painter, Greg Poulos, Ann Norton & Jonathan Storer, Mary & Don Parker, Saré Merrigan, The Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Joy Brandt, and Vic DeMaria
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Laura King and Scott Wilson, Bobby German and Alison McNally, Forrest Jones, Barry & Liz Bettis, Cheryl & Tom Schweich, Marjorie Sloan, Chris and Joyce Davell, Rick Flint, Forrest Jones, AC Development, Cynthia Merrill Tamny, Stephen Pero, Meg Van Ness & Steve Kalasz, Steve & Karla Schaefer, Bud Rockhill, Steve Enger, Kristie Brice & Mike Schwartz, and The Golden Hotel
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Followers:
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Golden Community Garden, Lora Haimes, Mariane Erickson, J.J. Fraser
