Tulips and Yogurt
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What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Sunday, Apr. 27th
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - Golden History Tours
- All day - CSM Track RMAC Outdoor Championships
- All day - Church Services
- All day - 11AM and 1PM CSM Softball - Orediggers vs New Mexico Highlands
- 8-11AM - Pancake & Waffle Breakfast Fundraiser
- 9:30-11:30AM - Paleoclimate Tour on Dinosaur Ridge
- 10AM-5PM - Spring Gear Sale and Swap
- 10AM-3PM - Brunch at the Rose
- 10AM-3PM - Small Wonders Weekend
- 11AM-1PM - Earth Day Clean Up
- 2PM - Colorado School of Mines Philharmonic Orchestra Spring Concert
- 3-4PM - Golden Library Discussion Book Group
- 5-9PM - Board Game Night
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
Bring a friend to Unite Fitness this week
Special Invite: Bring Your Friends for FREE to Unite Fitness!
From April 28 to May 4, you can bring friends to class for *free*. Just ask your friends to purchase one drop-in (normally $30), use the promo code Friends at checkout on Mindbody (use browser), and their class is on us! You can use the promo as many times as you want that week - who will you invite?
From Build, Burn, Low-Impact Build, Heavy Build, Mat Pilates Fusion, Vinyasa Flow Yoga, Restorative Yoga, Yoga for Mobility, Yoga for Balance and Stability and Yin Yoga we have classes to suit everyone!
We’d love to see you all. Any questions please email contact@unite.fitness.
8-11AM Pancake & Waffle Breakfast Fundraiser @ Golden Event Center/Golden Masonic Lodge
Pancakes & Waffles
with choice of cheese, sausage, hash browns
Coffee, tea, cocoa, milk & orange juice
Cost:
Adults & Children over 12yrs - $10.00 ea.
Children 8-12yrs - $5.00 ea.
Children 5yrs & under – Free!
All proceeds go to support Eastern Star projects & our youth groupsThis is open to the public.
Location:
Golden Event Center/Golden Masonic Lodge
400 10th Street (Map)
When:
8-11AM on Sunday, Apr. 27th
9:30-11:30AM - Paleoclimate Tour on Dinosaur Ridge
Ideal for those interested in learning about how the dramatic environmental shifts over 200 million years of Colorado natural history can help us better understand present and future climate and environmental challenges. This 1.5-mile walk includes multiple stops where evidence of geological change is visible.
$28 per person (suggested for ages 16 and older)
Strongly recommend wearing comfortable shoes, sun hats, sunglasses, removable layers (windbreakers, fleeces, etc.). Bring drinking water!
More information
Dinosaur Ridge Visitor Center
16831 W. Alameda Pkwy (map)
3-4PM Golden Library Discussion Book Group @ Golden Library
Book some time to discuss great reads!
Today’s Title: The White Lady by Jacqueline WInspear
More information
Location:
Golden Library
1019 10th Street (Map)
When:
3-4PM on Sunday, Apr. 27th
2PM - Colorado School of Mines Philharmonic Orchestra Spring Concert
Masakazu Ito - Music Director and Conductor
E. Chabrier: España
A. Vivaldi: Flute Concerto "Il Gardellino"
O. Respighi: Pines of Rome
There are no tickets, and admission is free.
For more information, send email to: mito@mines.edu
Colorado School of Mines
Green Center
924 16th Street (Map)
Live Music for Sunday, Apr. 27th
- 5:30-8:30PM Nico Martinez @ Golden Mill
Golden Mill - More Live Music
1PM Project X @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
2-6PM The Incidentals @ Wrigley’s
4PM Jeff Goodwin @ Over Yonder
8PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
For more information, visit the Golden Today Calendar
Golden History: Golden's Mobile Home Parks
Mobile Homes - Golden Transcript - June 19, 1979
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Automobiles were coming into widespread use in the 1920s, and trailers became popular shortly after. By the 1930s, “automobile camping” was a national craze. When World War II came along, many industries were shut down so the country could devote all labor and all materials to the war effort. Trailer manufacturing was exempted, because trailers helped fill a need to provide housing for people working in the war industries.
After World War II, the need for housing became even more urgent. Golden’s population grew 31% from 1930-1940 (people working for government projects, such as the Remington Arms Plant at the Federal Center) and 65% between 1940 and 1950 (returning soldiers enrolling at the School of Mines). There was no place for the new residents to live–few apartments, even fewer available houses. The School of Mines didn’t offer dorms or married student housing until well after the war.
Trailers were an ideal solution to the problem. They were comfortable and affordable, they could be moved to available locations, and they could be packed in efficiently. For several years after the war, Steinhauer Field House and Brooks Field were both used as parking spaces for student trailers. Some homeowners allowed campers to park in their yards--the ADUs of the day.
Until the mid-50s, trailers weren’t self-contained. Families shared the bathroom and laundry facilities provided by the parks (or the homeowners).
Before the War, Golden had one trailer park, located at 22nd and Jackson Street. It had started in the 1920s, offering both tourist cabins and camping spots. After the War, spots in that park were in great demand.
Soon, other parks were developed. Golden had just passed zoning regulations in 1949, and people weren’t sure how trailer parks fit into the new zoning...were they commercial or residential? Trailers parks were highly profitable ventures, so developers were eager to build them wherever they could buy land. They were generally asking for zoning changes and sometimes asking to be annexed into the city.
Both the County Commissioners (for unincorporated areas) and Golden City Council were eager to facilitate the developments: we were critically in need of housing, and the projects were generally going on vacant land, so they would generate some property tax where before there had been almost none. The development proposals poured in.
Golden Area Mobile Home Parks:
1924 – Golden City Tourist Park at 22nd and Jackson (pre-war)
1948 – Landon Hill Trailer Park (14835 W. Colfax) (now the Mountain View Hotel)
1948 – Perry Trailer Camp at 215 Cheyenne
1953 – Golden Trailer Park, Ford Street at Clear Creek
1955 – Skyline Motel and Motor Court – 17190 S. Golden Rd
1956 – Mountain Edge Court at 16100 S. Golden Road
1960 – Unnamed park at 17190 Mt. Vernon Road
1961 – Unnamed park at 1492 Isabell Street
1961 – Pleasant View Park at 15150 S. Old Golden Road
1961 Mountain Sides Mobile Home Estates, Hwy 6 and 40 at Ulysses
By 1961, both the County and City governments were becoming uneasy at the way trailer parks were taxed. They felt that they weren’t paying enough to cover fire and police protection, water and sewer. They thought the schools were over-crowded, as were the roads, and began to feel (and say) that denser housing with lower tax rates weren’t a good deal for the city. Nevertheless, the proposals still poured in. The parks that were already in place wanted to expand.
1962 East Tincup Park
1962 Unnamed Park at W. 9th St. and DeFrame
1962 Mountain View Mobile Home Park at 10403 W. Colfax
1965 – Table Mountain Court, 16390 West 44th Avenue
1965 – Hide Away Hills – 431 Zeta St.
1966 – Wide Acres Village – 1300 Isabell
In 1968, residents asked City Council to stop approving trailer parks, citing low tax base, over-crowded schools, etc.
1968 – Unnamed Park at 16780 Mt. Vernon Road
1969 – Golden Terrace Mobile Home Village 17601 W. Colfax
The Golden Terrace project was particularly contentious. The project itself was not offensive; it just came along at a time when both citizens and city officials had reached the saturation point. They decided they had enough of a good thing.
More proposals for new parks continued to come in, but both the County and the City were becoming slower to approve them. At one point they considered requiring that all new trailer parks be Planned Unit Developments (PUDs), but “Councilman Ruben Hartmeister charged that the PUD ordinance was a “magic wand” by which a developer could circumvent other zoning restrictions.”
The nature of the developers was changing. The 1950s-era parks in Pleasant View were smaller and had private owners who generally lived on site. The projects coming to Golden in the 1960s were big projects financed by remote corporations that owned similar projects in other parts of the country.
Golden turned down a mobile home project at Hwy 6 and Hwy 93. They resisted several companies that wanted to build mobile home parks at 6 and 40 (where Kohl’s and Home Depot are now).
Some of the Golden-area mobile home parks have been replaced by private and public redevelopment. A park in the unincorporated area between Golden and Lakewood made way for the Denver West Office Park. The Big Tree Mobile Home Park at 22nd and Jackson Street was replaced by Lewis Court Apartments. The Golden Trailer Park at Ford Street and Clear Creek became Vanover Park.
The value of mobile home parks is being rediscovered in light of the affordable housing crisis. In 2023, the City helped the residents buy Golden Hills Mobile Home Park, to shield them from skyrocketing lot rentals.
Recommended Viewing:
Suburbs On Wheels: A History of American Trailer Parks
Weather
Overnight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 48. West wind around 9 mph.
Sunday: Mostly sunny. High near 76, with temperatures falling to around 74 in the afternoon. South southwest wind 6 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph.
Sunday Night: A slight chance of rain showers after 1am. Partly cloudy. Low around 43, with temperatures rising to around 46 overnight. West wind 8 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Sunday Night: Partly Cloudy then Slight Chance Rain Showers, 43°F
Monday: Chance Rain Showers, 63°F
Monday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Mostly Cloudy, 39°F
Tuesday: Partly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 59°F
Tuesday Night: Slight Chance Rain Showers then Partly Cloudy, 42°F
Wednesday: Mostly Sunny then Chance Rain Showers, 65°F
Wednesday Night: Showers And Thunderstorms Likely, 44°F
Thursday: Chance Rain Showers, 60°F
Thursday Night: Slight Chance Rain Showers then Partly Cloudy, 44°F
Friday: Mostly Sunny then Chance Rain Showers, 72°F
Friday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 49°F
Saturday: Mostly Sunny then Chance Rain Showers, 75°F
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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, 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, Cynthia Merrill Tamny, Stephen Pero, Meg Van Ness & Steve Kalasz, Steve & Karla Schaefer, Bud Rockhill, Steve Enger, Kristie Brice & Mike Schwartz, The Golden Hotel, and Kurt & Janet Siegfried
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Brad Miller & Julie Bartos, Holly Thomas, Jim and LouAnne Dale, Ann Pattison, Thomas Hoffman, Carol Abel, Brian Quarnstrom, Sandra Curran, Bobby German and Alison McNally, Kathy Smith, Karen Smith, Carlos & Nancy Bernal, Robert Storrs, Michele Sannes, Elaine Marolla, Dixie Termin & Ron Miller, E Tom Hughes, Crystal M Culbert, Patrick A. Madison, Alice Madison & Jim Kalivas, Deb Goeldner, Christopher Ball, 6th Chair Home Services, Dot & Eric Brownson, Rosemary Coffman, Emeline Paulson, Sandy Schneider, Mark and Cathy Pattridge, Cheryl G Leidich, Jen Rutter, Frani R Bickart, Jennings and Litz, Bill Sedgeley, Nancy Hughes, Justin L Wade, Kathi Eggers, Traci Case, Donna Owen, Leslie D Lutz, Karen Oxman, Catherine Skokan, Ross Fraser & KC Gilliland, Lynne Haigh, Elizabeth Hilliard, Frank Young & Terre Deegan-Young, Kathy Hirons & Jack Markin, Jess & Anthony Monasterio, Ella Lyons & Jeanne Fritch, Heather Duncan, Lee Ann & Pete Horneck, Carol Cameron, Cheryl Williamson, San Daugherty, Jim Garner, John and Carol McEncroe, the Golden Welcome Center, the Golden Transcript, Koshare Eagle, Ken and Colleen Krantz, Traci Neuman Lacey, Jo Barber, Jamie Cookinham, Kermit Shields, Meridee Cecil, Vicki Olson, Colleen & Michael Ramey, Nancy & Pete Torpey, Jax Baker, Simon Maybury, Rose McLaughlin, Cameron Chambers, Joyce Gravina, Patrick Klein, Barb Robie, and Mary Rains
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Golden Community Garden, Lora Haimes, Mariane Erickson, J.J. Fraser, Mel Perkins, Bob Hamilton, Kim Linton
