Golden After Sunset
Photo by Robert Saieg
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What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Sunday, Nov. 24th
- All day - Foothills Art Center - Holiday Art Market
- All day - Foothills Art Center - Holiday Art Market
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - Golden History Tours
- All day - Church Services
- 8-11AM - Pancake & Waffle Breakfast Fundraiser
- 9:30-11:30AM - Full Walking Tour @ Dinosaur Ridge
- 10AM-3PM - Brunch at the Rose
- 11AM-8PM - Fundraiser to Honor Golden Officers
- 2PM - Colorado School of Mines Philharmonic Orchestra Fall Concert
- 3PM - CSM Women's Soccer - NCAA Tournament
- 5-9PM - Board Game Night
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
8-11AM Pancake and Waffle Breakfast @ Masonic Lodge
The Order of the Eastern Star will be holding a Pancake & Waffle Breakfast Fundraiser to support Eastern Star projects and our Rainbow Girls youth group. This is open to the public.
Golden Event Center/Golden Masonic Lodge
400 10th Street (map)
11AM-8PM Fundraiser to Honor Golden Officers @ Elks Lodge
Golden Elk Lodge #2740 is hosting a fundraiser with music, food and silent auction on. Proceeds will benefit fallen Golden Officer Evan Dunn and injured Golden Officer Bethany Grusing. Please call 303-748-3223 with questions.
Golden Elks Lodge #2740
16795 W. 50th Avenue (map)
2PM CSM Philharmonic Orchestra
Masakazu Ito - Music Director and Conductor
- Louise Farrenc: Overture no. 2, op. 24
- Maurice Ravel: Boléro, M. 81
- Arturo Márquez: Danzón no. 2
- Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, op. 45
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, Nov. 24th
- 4-7PM Johnny O @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
- More Live Music
8PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
For more information, visit the Golden Today Calendar
Golden History: Remembering 2018
6 Years Ago
In November of 2018, the Golden History Museum hosted a huge crowd who watched as they opened the time capsule buried in 1968. This repeated a gathering of 50 years earlier, when a 1968 Golden crowd opened the 1918 time capsule. That one was created to celebrate the end of World War I.
The Railroad Museum hosted a Rails and Cocktails program about train wrecks.
The Golden Library held their popular STEM Girls program, and well as Extreme Science: Buzzing with Energy. The Jeffco Schools got out early one day, so the library hosted Freaky Friday, with games, crafts, and Legos. The Teens After Dark program held a Teen Video Game Night.
Frank Blaha was the Golden Beer Talks speaker, telling us about the 1918 Influenza Epidemic.
Mines Little Theater presented Neil Simon’s Rumors and She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen. Golden High School performed student-directed one-act plays. Miners Alley produced still another variation of A Christmas Carol.
Foothills Art Center offered a class by Jane Christie: Success with Pastels.
The Golden Urban Renewal Authority met with the Confluence Company, which proposed to build 72 apartments and a 48 room hotel on 8th Street, where the Briarwood Inn formerly stood. The GURA board explored ways to incent Confluence to make some of the apartments affordable. Confluence was unmoved.
The Mines Symphony Orchestra and Mines Jazz Band performed in the old Golden Ford building at 19th St. and 6th Avenue.
The Great Turkey Chase took place on Thanksgiving Day. Kids doing the race chased a guy in a turkey suit. They tried to grab tail feathers in exchange for prizes.
Safeway approached the Local Licensing Authority with a request to modify their premises. Full-strength beer had been legalized for sale in grocery stores, and Safeway planned to permanently expand their “fermented malt beverage” area.
The Golden Investment Task Forum was sorting through the long list of “wants” defined in our various master plans. It was trying to prioritize them and see whether we needed an additional revenue source (in fact, a lodging tax) to satisfy our desires.
The Candlelight Walk was early that year—November 30th.
City Council held an executive session to discuss buying property “East of Ford near 10th Street” (the Coors office building and parking lots).
Golden History: A Long-Time Resident with a Lovely Name and a Lovely House
Colorado Transcript – April 4, 1957
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79 Years Ago
We are going to have our Thanksgiving Day Dinner with an octogenarian. This will be Lake Smith’s 83rd Thanksgiving day–that’s almost half of all the Thanksgiving days since the United States of American became a nation in 1776.
The Colorado Transcript – November 22, 1945
Lake Erie Smith came to Golden to visit an aunt in 1870, and returned the following year to marry W.G. Smith–son of the Presbyterian minister, editor of the Golden Globe, and former lieutenant governor of Colorado. The couple had 3 daughters and a son, and by the time she died in 1957 she also had 9 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren.
Mrs. Smith lived in only two houses in her lifetime–the one in Iowa, where she was born, and the one she shared with her husband at 13th and Arapahoe. The Golden house began as a modest bungalow, but the couple added on as they added children and over time it became quite large and stately. Mrs. Smith enjoyed young people, and after her husband’s death in 1921 she rented rooms to Mines students. She was quite involved in the Presbyterian church, and hosted many church socials in her yard, in the shade of the trees that she and her husband had planted decades before.
Beautiful as the house was, the land beneath it was even more valuable. Shortly after Lake’s death, the City cut down the trees next to the house. They needed to widen Arapahoe Street to add diagonal parking. The following year, Mr. Foss bought the house so he could make a parking lot for Foss Drug customers. Even today, the north half of that parking lot belongs to the city, but the south half still belongs to the Foss family.
Thank you to Wendy Weiman for sponsoring Golden History Moments for the month of November.
Weather
Overnight: Mostly clear. Low around 44, with temperatures rising to around 47 overnight. Southwest wind around 7 mph.
Sunday: Rain likely after 3pm. Mostly sunny. High near 61, with temperatures falling to around 50 in the afternoon. West wind 6 to 12 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Sunday Night: Rain likely before 7pm, then snow likely between 7pm and 5am. Mostly cloudy. Low around 28, with temperatures rising to around 31 overnight. East northeast wind 2 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.
Sunday Night: Light Snow Likely, 28°F
Monday: Sunny, 45°F
Monday Night: Mostly Cloudy then Chance Rain And Snow, 32°F
Tuesday: Chance Rain And Snow, 51°F
Tuesday Night: Light Rain then Rain And Snow, 34°F
Wednesday: Rain And Snow, 35°F
Wednesday Night: Chance Snow, 21°F
Thanksgiving Day: Sunny, 37°F
Thursday Night: Mostly Clear, 22°F
Friday: Sunny, 44°F
Friday Night: Mostly Clear, 25°F
Saturday: Mostly Sunny, 43°F
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