Clear Creek Trail
Photo by Joyce Davell
What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Monday, May. 13th
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - Live Workouts with Community Center Pros
- All day - Golden History Tours
- 10:15-10:45AM - Let's Dance
- 12-12:30PM - Mondays with the Mayor
- 12-4PM - Stitch'n B*tch
- 1:30-3PM - Using the Cloud: Google Drive
- 2-3PM - Virtual: Active Minds Monday
- 5:30PM - GURA Board Meeting
- 6-9PM - Teach Me to Play! Mondays
- 7-9PM - Colorado Trivia League
- 7:30PM - The Full Monty - SOLD OUT
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
Saturday, May 18th: Bird Watching Walk in Kinney Run
Photo by Stewards of Golden Open Space
Stewards of Golden Open Space will host a bird watching tour this Saturday, which will highlight our resident and migrating birds. Tour participants will meet their guide at about 8AM at the base of the Kinney Run trail on Illinois Street. To sign up, send an email to info@stewardsofgolden.org and tell us how many in your party and a contact phone number.
Kinney Run Trail
Illinois Street (map)
Do a favor for a neighbor
Rotary Day of Service - May 18th
Please join Golden Rotary this Saturday for a Morning of Service!
We have two projects:
9am – 12:30pm: Gardens for Seniors at Canyon Gate Senior Apartments by the Rec Center.
8 – 10:30AM & 10AM – 12:30PM: Ramps for Residents of a Golden mobile home community ~ 2 single Moms with life altering injuries.
Wear old clothes that can get dirty/paint on them. Bring a filled water bottle, sunscreen, hat & work gloves.
GARDENS: Please bring small gardening tools, if you are able.
RAMPS: Here is a list of activities, all done with the direction of an experienced supervisor:
- Converse and spend time with the homeowner
- Mark boards with measurements
- Using a chop saw to cut wood
- Paint/stain boards
- Use a driver and screw gun to attach boards in the guidance of the job supervisor
- Yard cleanup while not painting or being guided in the attachment of wood
- Job cleanup
- Home Depot runner
The link https://epicdayofservice.org/volunteer/entry/1300/ has more details and you can volunteer there. ALSO, at 1pm on Saturday, May 18, Golden City Brewery has been kind and generous enough to donate 1 pint of beer for each volunteer of legal drinking age. We will all meet after the project at GCB for a celebration of helping Golden Seniors & residents!
If you have any questions about the gardening project, please reach out to Wendy Caspari ~ wendycaspari@gmail.com or if you have any questions about the ramp project, please reach out to Deb Poskie ~ debposkie@comcast.net
1:30-3PM Using the Cloud: Google Drive
What is "the cloud" and how do you use it? Explore what the cloud is and how to create a Google Drive account to store and edit documents and other files.
Prerequisites: Intermediate computer and internet skills
Golden Library
1019 10th Street (map)
5:30PM GURA Meeting
17270 W. Colfax - current and future views
17270 W. Colfax Ave. (map)
Confluence Development will attend to "request tax increment financing assistance to redevelop this site, a long-term goal for GURA."
The developer will describe their plans for 17270 W. Colfax. The Planning Commission recently approved a site plan, which includes 182 residential apartments, 28 of which will be boarding units, 8,778 square feet of commercial space for a restaurant and coffee shop, and 175 parking spaces.
At this time, no mention is made of making any of the units "affordable."
This topic has come up in previous Confluence projects. When the Basecamp apartments were built on the former Briarwood Inn property, GURA had envisioned making some of them "affordable." They were not able to negotiate a deal with Confluence (see "Too Expensive to be Affordable", so the apartments rent at market rates:
1-bedroom $2,511 - $3,184
2-bedroom (not published)
3-bedroom (not published)
4-bedroom $4,747 - $5.612
When Confluence built their "boarding house" project (Aurum), the developer pitched the project as "attainable" housing (see "The Ins and Outs of Boarding Houses") and estimated the rental cost of the units as follows:
1-bedroom $1,184
3-bedroom $2,700
The current published prices to rent those units are:
1-bedroom $1,915 - $4,034
3-bedroom $3,258 - $4,897
The GURA board will discuss this project in Executive Session (no cameras, no public present).
Housing for the Unhoused
In other affordable housing news, Foothills Regional Housing Authority has alerted the City that their purchase of the Copper and Gold Apartments (the former Golden Motel) has been delayed. They have also announced that some of the units in that project (which is located in the East Street Neighborhood) will be used to transition Golden's unhoused residents into permanent housing.
For more information, see the meeting packet.
The meeting takes place in City Council chambers and will be broadcast live and recorded for later viewing.
City Hall Council Chambers
911 10th Street (map)
Golden History: Much Ado About Groceries
One of the early general stores on Washington Avenue
Grocery stores have grown a lot over the years. When Golden was built, beginning in 1859, there were no stores devoted exclusively to groceries; food was only one of several categories of things sold by most stores.
In the late 19th century, stores began to specialize more. Golden was the trading center for a large area of farms and ranches, so it supported several stores that sold groceries exclusively. Many of the stores along Washington Avenue were used as groceries at one time or another.
The building at 11th and Washington, (Wood’s Mortuary for more than a century, and now Atomic Cowboy) was Elmus Smith’s Grocery Store in the 1880s.
The Stewart Block at 10th and Washington was built as a grocery store and housed first Nankivell and Jones, then Parfet’s Grocery, then Stewart’s Grocery Store.
Meyer’s Market. Reets & Riley Groceries (1880s) Soren Sorenson’s Grocery (1908-1920), the Market Basket (1920s), and Chuck’s Market (1936-53) have all occupied 1214 Washington Avenue, which is now home to Laurel Properties.
The Red and White Grocery Store operated at 1213 Washington (now Toad & Co.) from the 1930s-the 1950s. The Abejas building (807 13th Street) was a Piggly Wiggly from the mid-40s through the mid-50s, then became the Golden Gate Market for another 15 years.
There were also many very small neighborhood groceries scattered around town. There was a long-lived grocery at 150 10th Street in the Goosetown Neighborhood: it operated from at least the 1920s through the early ’60s. The building at 911 9th St. served as Spear’s Grocery, Ben’s Grocery, and George’s Grocery during the ’40s and ’50s. Pudge’s Cash Grocery operated at 417 Washington in the 1940s. Heatley Groceries was at 3rd and Ford. There was a store at 10th and Ford that operated as Finger Grocery, Maxwell Grocery, and Swafford Grocery from the 1940s until 1960, when Coors Porcelain bought the building to build their parking lot.
The south end of town had the “Tourist Park Grocery” at 22nd and Ford. The building at 2101 Ford St. served as Al’s Grocery, Menaugh Grocery, Castle Rock Grocery, and Evans’ Grocery from the ’30s through the ’60s.
In all of these stores, a grocer would have greeted the customer and helped put together the order. Many of them accepted phone orders and provided delivery.
While it’s easy to romanticize the idea of small, neighborhood grocery stores, they did have disadvantages. Their selection was poorer, of course, and their prices higher. They also didn’t have the high turnover rate that enabled them to maintain reliably fresh dairy and produce.
Supermarkets (self-serve with grocery carts) were just emerging before World War II, and took off after the war, as more people had cars and they wanted to buy food in bulk to last for several days or weeks. Refrigerators also became wide-spread after the war, which helped households store food for longer periods.
Safeway came to town in the 1930s. It started on Washington Avenue, with a more traditionally scaled store, but built a larger, “supermarket” style store after the war. King Soopers had a store here, at 19th and Jackson, from 1966 to 1976, and then returned with a much bigger store in 1998.
Miller’s Super Market came to Golden in 1966. In 1968, they were bought out by a regional chain and the store operated as Del Farm after that. They stayed until at least the mid-1970s.
If you have ever wondered whether this building at 13th and Ford was an old grocery store–it was!
The Golden Transcript (originally called the Colorado Transcript) has been publishing since 1866. The Golden History Museum has been working on digitizing the historic issues. You’ll find old Transcripts online at coloradohistoricnewspapers.org.
Weather
Overnight: Mostly clear, with a low around 45. West wind around 9 mph, with gusts as high as 16 mph.
Monday: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms between noon and 4pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 4pm and 5pm, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 70. North northeast wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Monday Night: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight. Partly cloudy, with a low around 50. Southwest wind 7 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 16 mph.
Monday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 50°F
Tuesday: Partly Sunny then Showers And Thunderstorms Likely, 73°F
Tuesday Night: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Mostly Cloudy, 48°F
Wednesday: Showers And Thunderstorms, 60°F
Wednesday Night: Showers And Thunderstorms Likely, 47°F
Thursday: Slight Chance Rain Showers then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 65°F
Thursday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 48°F
Friday: Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 75°F
Friday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Mostly Clear, 51°F
Saturday: Mostly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 77°F
Saturday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 51°F
Sunday: Mostly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 74°F
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