Enjoying the Widened Trail
Photo by Joyce Davell
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What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Saturday, Oct. 12th
- All day - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - MAP Children's Theater
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - MAP Children's Theater
- All day - TriceraTOTs
- All day - Golden History Tours
- 8AM - Saturday Morning Run and Social Walk
- 9AM-12PM - Snowshoe Making Class
- 10AM - Leaning Log Cabins
- 10AM-3PM - Brunch at the Rose
- 10AM-3PM - Saturday Train Rides
- 10:15-10:45AM - Family Time - Registration Required
- 12-1PM - Demystifying Protein
- 12PM - Golden City Brewery ChiliFest
- 12PM - CSM Football - Orediggers vs South Dakota Mines
- 1-3PM - PAWS for Reading
- 5-6PM - Golden American Legion Riders Dinner
- 6:30-9:30PM - The Talking Dead - An Interactive Pub Crawl
- 7PM - Golden Ghosts & Spirits Haunted Pub Crawl Tour
- 7:30PM - Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Elusive Ear
- 7:30PM - Golden Ghosts & Spirits Haunted Pub Crawl Tour
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
Eat Well, Drink Well, and Support Your Local Food Pantry!
Join Golden City Brewery and 12 chili chefs as they compete for Best Chili in Golden and win beer for a year! This fundraiser is to support the food pantry at the Golden Pantry and Thrift (formerly CAG). More information
Golden City Brewery
920 12th Street (map)
1PM The Legend of Sleep Hollow Opens Today
Miners Alley Theater for Young People opens their Halloween play today. Performances will be at 1PM today and next week (October 19th). They will offer two performances (11AM and 1PM) on October 26th. The play runs through November 9th.
Ichabod Crane has come to Sleepy Hollow to teach, but what he learns there frightens him nearly out of his wits! Watch as Ichabod learns of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow and tries to escape the clutches of the Headless Horseman.
Miners Alley Playhouse
1224 Washington Avenue, Suite 200 (map)
Aurora Borealis
Night sky north of Golden, sometime between 9 and 11PM on October 10, 2024
You may be hearing that northern lights have been visible in this area. Chris Davell took this picture Thursday night, standing just north of North Table Mountain. He warns that the lights may not be visible to the naked eye. He was able to see a dim pinkish hue, but his camera caught more of the light.
Live Music for Saturday, Oct. 12th
- 5:30-8:30PM Southside Mike @ Buffalo Rose
Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage) - More Live Music
4-8PM Midnight Vinyl @Wrigley’s
5-8PM Live Music @ Eddy Taproom
5:30PM Derek Hall, Front Range Cowboys, and Shawn Nelson @ Goosetown Station
6PM Jared Nels @ Over Yonder
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
For more information, visit the Golden Today Calendar
Golden History: The Opera House
Advertisement from the Colorado Transcript – October 12, 1916
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108 Years Ago
The October 12, 1916 Colorado Transcript featured a large ad for a vaudeville show that would be at the Golden Opera House the following week. It promised singers, dancers, acrobats, contortionists, and “funny comedians.”
The Golden Opera House occupied the second floor of 1216 Washington Avenue–now the Ace Hi Tavern. Does it seem strange to think that a small, western town like Golden would have needed an Opera House? Were we really such opera devotees? Not really—the vaudeville show was much more representative of the kind of fare we usually got than grand opera would have been.
Opera Houses were very popular in the half century or so after the Civil War. Big cities had them as well as small towns, but in big cities they probably had multiple entertainment buildings that specialized for theater, symphonies, and operas. In smaller towns, one structure hosted all entertainment needs.
According to Ann Satterthwaite’s Local Glories: Opera Houses on Main Street – Where Art and Community Meet, Colorado built 132 opera houses in 68 towns and cities between 1860 and 1920. Golden’s was built in 1879. The first floor had stores (sometimes restaurants) and the performance area was on the second floor.
Many troupes of entertainers traveled the country and scheduled stopovers in opera houses as they went. Over the years, the Golden Opera House hosted plays, comedians, orchestras, singers, vaudeville shows, dances, church services, political meetings, dance classes, and graduations (both Golden High School and the School of Mines). Minstrel shows were very popular, and the Opera House offered many, many productions of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The Golden Opera House hosted Blind Boone, Henrietta Vinton Davis, and William Jennings Bryan.
Public tastes and needs changed as technology developed. When the Golden Gem theater opened in 1908, motion pictures suddenly became the most interesting thing to watch. When the Gem moved into the big, modern building at 13th and Washington, it offered a newer, nicer auditorium than the aged Opera House. Then radio came along. Then television. The Opera House was used less and less over the years, though the Fire Department still used it for dances in the 1930s.
In 1956, the building incurred severe damage in a windstorm and the city condemned it. One of the first floor tenants bought the building and had it repaired. She divided the seldom-used performance space on the second floor into individual offices. The Ace-Hi Tavern was already in operation by then. In 1961, the Stillman family bought not only the bar but the entire building. It is now owned by the third generation of that family.
Many thanks to an anonymous donor for sponsoring Golden History Moments for the month of October.
Weather
Overnight: Mostly clear. Low around 57, with temperatures rising to around 59 overnight. West wind around 9 mph.
Saturday: Mostly sunny. High near 80, with temperatures falling to around 78 in the afternoon. North northwest wind 5 to 8 mph.
Saturday Night: Partly cloudy. Low around 54, with temperatures rising to around 56 overnight. West northwest wind around 5 mph.
Saturday Night: Partly Cloudy, 54°F
Sunday: Mostly Sunny, 71°F
Sunday Night: Mostly Clear, 51°F
Columbus Day: Sunny, 77°F
Monday Night: Mostly Clear, 54°F
Tuesday: Sunny, 76°F
Tuesday Night: Mostly Clear, 53°F
Wednesday: Sunny, 76°F
Wednesday Night: Partly Cloudy, 53°F
Thursday: Mostly Sunny, 72°F
Thursday Night: Chance Rain Showers, 49°F
Friday: Chance Rain Showers, 65°F
News About Golden - October 12, 204
Colorado dog hiking service unleashes franchising expansion plan
By Jenna Barackman
Denver Business Journal
A company that takes dogs on hikes plans to expand across Colorado and nationwide after unleashing a franchising initiative.
Golden, Colorado-based Hike Doggie, a startup founded by pet parent Kath Allen... Read more...
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