Flags, Flags, Flags at the Courthouse
Photo by Liz Erickson Bettis
What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Tuesday, Jun. 25th
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - Live Workouts with Community Center Pros
- All day - Golden History Tours
- All day - Tubular Tuesdays
- 8-10AM - DeLong Park Weedbusters
- 9-10AM - Women's Exercise and Bible Study
- 9AM - Golden Seniors - Coffee Klatch
- 9:15-9:45AM - Baby Time
- 10:15-10:45AM - Preschool Time
- 12-1PM - Lunch 'n Learn - Wildfire Awareness
- 1-2:30PM - Email: Basics
- 1:30PM - Triad - Senior Safety
- 5:30-7:30PM - Bike Walk Golden Trail Etiquette Booth
- 5:30-9PM - The Golden Bicycle Cruise
- 5:30-8PM - Continuing Exploration of the Elements of Art
- 6-7:30PM - LGBTQ Stories from the American Frontier
- 6:30-8:30PM - Team Trivia Tuesday
- 6:30-8:30PM - Toad Trivia
- 6:30-8:30PM - Trivia Tuesdays
- 6:30PM - City Council Regular Business Meeting
- 6:30-8:30PM - Bar Bingo Night
- 6:30-7PM - Snuggle With a Book: Nighttime Adventures - Stuffed Animal Sleepover
- 6:45PM - $5 Yoga Class - Vinyasa Flow
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
6:30PM Snuggle With a Book: Nighttime Adventures - Stuffed Animal Sleepover
Come to the Library and snuggle with a book for a fun nighttime adventure!
Tonight's Adventure: Stuffed Animal Sleepover
It’s a Stuffed Animal Sleepover! Bring your favorite stuffed animal or doll for a night of stories and songs as you prepare them for an adventurous sleepover at the library. Pick them up after the next morning’s Outdoor Story Time, where you’ll receive a photo of their evening adventures!
3:30PM Language of African Drumming with Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities
Celebrate Juneteenth with African rhythms and melodies that have shaped the development of blues and jazz, ultimately influencing the rise of rock and roll.
Join Bob Hall from the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities who will teach the “alphabet” of African hand drums forming basic sounds to create the language of drums. Practice playing traditional African rhythm patterns and learn about the use of these sounds and instruments in different African cultures.
6:30PM City Council Regular Business Meeting @ City Hall
Photo by Joyce Davell
Public Comment
There are three public hearings tonight. If you plan to offer comments concerning items 9a, 9b, or 9c, wait until that agenda item comes up. To comment on any other topics, plan to be there at the beginning of the meeting (6:30). You'll have three minutes to speak. Council members may respond to you afterwards (though they generally don't). To submit written comment, send an email to PublicComment@cityofgolden.net prior to 3PM. Comments received before 3 will be added to the meeting packet.
Consent Matters
Consent matters are considered uncontroversial, not requiring discussion. Councilors can ask to move an item off the consent agenda if they want to discuss it. The two consent items are:
- Approving purchase of upgraded traffic signals downtown for a cost not to exceed $675,000. Learn more.
- Approving a request by the City's Hearing Officer to allow other attorneys from her firm to fill in when she's unavailable. The Hearing Officer oversees hearings for "liquor licensing, medical marijuana licensing, nicotine and tobacco product
licensing, administrative citations, and election complaints." Learn more.
Proclamations
Public Hearings
The public is allowed to comment on these three items. You will have three minutes to speak. Alternatively, you can send email to PublicComment@cityofgolden.net prior to 3PM.
9a) Approval of an ordinance that will designate the Quaintaince block (805 13th Street - map) as a Local Historic Landmark. This building was constructed in 1911 by the Quaintance family to house their real estate, photography, and law offices. It originally stood at the corner of 13th and Washington, but was moved in 1923 to make way for a Conoco gas station. Several important Golden businesses have resided in the building over the years, including the wildly popular Spudnut Shop (donuts made with potato flour). Learn more about this interesting building by reading the supporting memo.
9b) Approval of an ordinance that will designate the Piggly Wiggly building (807 13th Street - map) as a Local Historic Landmark. Constructed in 1947 as a Piggly Wiggly grocery store, it was purchased by a local family in 1952 and renamed "Golden Gate Market." In 1967, the grocery closed and the building was divided to house Jeffco Blueprints and Burgess TV. The building now houses Faith Tattoo and Abejas restaurant. A mural was added on the western wall in 2022 to commemorate the building's original use as a Piggly Wiggly. Learn more.
9c) Approval of a request to remove two buildings from the 8th and 9th Street Historic District. The owner of 916 and 918 9th Street states in his petition for removal that the City has ("supported an environment of scrape and development into larger suburban-type dwellings that are not in character with the historic character of the historic neighborhoods"). With such haphazard stewardship, he asserts that the value and integrity of the district are gone. He feels that being in the district can only be considered a detriment, in that the City can exert control over his buildings when they choose to, while allowing other buildings in the district to be scraped or remodeled in a non-historic style.
This request is distressing to historic preservationists. While they may or may not agree that the City has been an ineffectual steward, they want these very old buildings (1860s and 1870s) to remain in the district. They fear that if the buildings are removed from the district, the current or future owners might be more likely to demolish and replace them.
Learn more about the buildings and the issues under consideration.
The Golden Bicycle Cruise
A family-friendly Bicycle Cruise that takes place on the last Tuesday of the month from May to September. Beer, Bands and Bikes! Tonight's (optional) costume theme is Jimmy Buffett/Margaritaville. More information
Armory Parking Garage
14th and Arapahoe (map)
12-1PM Golden Chamber Lunch 'n Learn: Navigating Wildfire Risk
Join Restoration 1 of West Denver for an essential topic, "Navigating Wildfire Risk." This lunch and learn will provide invaluable insights and strategies to mitigate the impact of wildfires on properties, insurance coverage, and post-wildfire recovery efforts in both your home and business. More information
On Tap Credit Union
816 Washington Avenue (map)
6-7:30PM LGBTQ Stories from the American Frontier @ Golden History Museum
This talk will cover topics, methods, and views of LGBTQ people in American history from the Revolutionary period to the Civil War. Along the frontier from the Rio Grande to the Rocky Mountain region, frontiers offered a space which was both highly homosocial and a space for reinvention. Laws, politics, and moral values around gender and sexuality radically shifted by the end of the 19th century. Public views of LGBTQ people became harsher by the end of the 19th and hegemonically oppressive by the middle of the 20th. Yet resistance to such oppression flourished in the arts and private social spaces which fostered the contemporary LGBTQ rights movement. More information
About Presenter David Duffield
David Duffield is the creator of the Colorado LGBTQ History Project, a board member of the Committee on LGBTQ History, presented at the Western History Association, the American Historical Association, winner of the 2023 Eleanor Gehres Award from Denver Public Library’s Western History Department and the 2019 Denver LGBTQ Commission Community Service Award, and works as a teacher in Denver Public Schools. In his work as a historian with the Center on Colfax for the Colorado LGBTQ History Project, the accomplishments include 100 oral histories, the first tours, lesson plans, 6 exhibits on LGBTQ history, as well as contributions and talks with multiple organizations.
Golden History Museum
923 10th Street (map)
Live Music for Tuesday, Jun. 25th
- More Live Music
6PM Karaoke with Linda @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
6PM Open Bluegrass Pick Night @ Over Yonder Brewing
For more information, visit the Golden Today Calendar
Golden History: The Crawford House
Crawford House from 1892 Illustrated Golden Globe Industrial Edition
122 Years Ago
The June 25, 1902 Colorado Transcript reported that the Crawford House had recently been purchased by John McEachern. He was doing extensive remodeling, updating, and redecorating in preparation for reopening the business.
The Crawford House was located on 12th Street, about halfway between Ford and Jackson. I believe it was built in 1887. It had a few different names over the years, as owners came and went, but always seemed to default back to the Crawford House.
In its early years, it was considered a fine and comfortable hotel. In later years, as the structure aged and newer hotels were built, it became a boarding house. It was razed in 1939 to make way for the post office. The owner at that time intended to reuse the bricks, so it’s possible that some of the Crawford House still exists in Golden buildings!
This is what caught my attention in the 1902 article:
The large front room on the second floor will be fitted up for living rooms for the family by dividing off a couple of bed-rooms…. On this floor are some fourteen nice bed-rooms which are being newly papered and painted, as is the house throughout. The bath room and closet are on this floor to the rear, and as sewer connection has been secured everything will be modern and up-to-date.
Image the owner’s family and fourteen guests sharing a single bathroom!
Thanks to the Golden History Museum for providing the online cache of historic Transcripts, and to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866!
Weather
Overnight: Mostly clear, with a low around 67. West wind around 9 mph.
Tuesday: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Sunny, with a high near 96. North wind 5 to 9 mph.
Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 66. West northwest wind around 7 mph.
Tuesday Night: Partly Cloudy, 66°F
Wednesday: Mostly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 89°F
Wednesday Night: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Mostly Cloudy, 66°F
Thursday: Partly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 90°F
Thursday Night: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Mostly Cloudy, 65°F
Friday: Mostly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 88°F
Friday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 59°F
Saturday: Mostly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 83°F
Saturday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 63°F
Sunday: Mostly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 91°F
Sunday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 65°F
Monday: Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 92°F
News Relating to Golden - June 25, 2024
Behme sentenced to 24 years in prison for Applewood car shooting case
By Corinne Westeman
Golden Transcript
A Lakewood man accused of shooting at an occupied car last summer near Golden has pleaded guilty and been sentenced to 24 years in prison... Read more...
Mike Mooney recognized with Martin S. Kapp Foundation Engineering Award
By Jasmine Leonas
Colorado School of Mines Newsroom
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Laura King and Scott Wilson, Bobby German and Alison McNally, Ann Norton & Jonathan Storer, 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
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