Books and Blossoms
Photo by Richard Luckin
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What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Tuesday, Mar. 24th
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - Golden History Tours
- All day - Live Workouts with Community Center Pros
- All day - Golden Sports
- 9:15-9:45AM - Baby Time - Registration Required
- 10-11:30AM - Quilt Museum Crazy Quilt Trunk Show @ Front Porch
- 10-11:30AM - Community Marketing Board Meeting
- 10:15-10:45AM - Preschool Time - Registration Required
- 1-2PM - Golden BEYOND Day - Foil Boats
- 1:30PM - Triad - Senior Safety
- 5:30-7:30PM - Exploring the Elements of Art
- 6PM - Heritage Dells/Eagle Ridge Neighborhood Meeting Notice
- 6-8PM - Handmade Soap Making
- 6-7:30PM - Succulent Kokedama Workshop
- 6:30PM - Trivia Night @ Bivy Beer Bar
- 6:30-8:30PM - Team Trivia Tuesday @ Buffalo Rose
- 6:30-8:30PM - Bar Bingo Night @ VFW
- 7PM - Pub Trivia @ Atomic Cowboy
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
10-11:30AM Community Marketing Board Meeting @ City Hall Council Chambers
- Meeting Agenda & Packet
- Watch the meeting streaming live starting at 10AM
- Attend the meeting @ City Hall Council Chambers - 911 10th Street - (map)
- Send email comments to visitgolden@cityofgolden.net.
The Community Marketing Board will meet with a representative from the Sundance Film Festival this morning. Sundance is moving from Utah to Boulder, and Golden wants to be one of the places that festival-goers stay.
They are working on a strategic plan and intend to do a board retreat on May 12th. Those are generally off-site, with no recording equipment.
They will review their 2026 budget, which totals $702,498. Of that, the biggest items are:
- Media Buying and Advertising $314,000
- Benefits and salaries $165,123
- Creative and Public Relations/Strategy & Acct Management $72,500
The full budget appears on p. 2 of the meeting packet.
The Goldens in Golden event cost about $70,000 to put on. The merchants were generally very happy with the results—a huge crowd of customers at a normally dormant time of the year.
The packet includes an interesting report on Golden's visitors—how many, where they come from, their demographics, how much they spend, and what they do while they're here. See pp. 4-31 of the meeting packet.
They will review the winter ad campaign. If you see or hear commercials about Golden, this is the group who creates and distributes them. See pp. 32-37 of the meeting packet.
Location:
City Hall Council Chambers
911 10th Street (Map)
10-11:30AM Quilt Museum Crazy Quilt Trunk Show @ Front Porch
Join the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum for a trunk show featuring 15 quilts dating back to the 1880s, with some fragments as well that help to explain the actual construction of these quilts. Register today! Active Older Adults aged 50+
Location:
Front Porch Golden Community Center
1470 10th Street (Map)
1-2PM Golden BEYOND Day - Foil Boats @ Golden Library
Will it sink or float? Learn about buoyancy and transform a sheet of Foil into a boat! Can it withstand any challenges that come its way? Join the fun and test your scientific knowledge at this interactive spring break BEYOND day! Register
Location:
Golden Library
1019 10th Street (Map)
6PM Heritage Dells/Eagle Ridge Neighborhood Meeting Notice @ Wrigley's Chicago Bar & Grill
Excerpt from the City's zoning map. The peach color is commercial (where they hope to build the townhomes), the light green at 331 is R1 (single family home) and all of the aqua color are zoned PUD.
Neighborhood meeting for a Special Use Permit for residential townhomes located in a commercial zone district at 18700 W. 4th Avenue. More information
Location:
Wrigley's Chicago Bar & Grill
18200 W. Colfax Avenue (Map)
6-8PM Handmade Soap Making @ Earth Sweet Boutique
Make your own soap from Scratch! This is cold processed, everyday soap. Join Natural Product Maker Emily Seaver in this demonstration style cold-process soap making class that will take you from A to Z, learning how to make soap yourself! $55 Register
By the way, they're holding a sourdough bread-making class on April 2nd. That class always sells out, so you might want to reserve a place now.
Location:
Earth Sweet Boutique
1224 Arapahoe Street (Map)
The Golden Word - 03/24/26
Golden History: A Visit to the Golden Plunge
On March 3rd, I published an article about the Golden Plunge—the historic swimming pool under the Buffalo Rose. I ended with an invitation for GoldenToday readers to join me for a tour of the place. Last night, 20 people gathered in the Buffalo Rose event venue to see the famous pool.
I told the group about the pool, which opened in 1927. It was popular and quite a draw for visitors from Denver. Golden had a new water supply at that time, piped over the mountains from Beaver Brook. The city fathers were so proud of our water quality that they provided it gratis for the swimming pool, considering it a good way to show off our fine water. It was a big pool—100 ft long by 30 feet wide, 9 feet at the deep end sloping up to 3 feet at the shallow end.
As I said, it was popular, but it opened at the wrong time (1927), and the Depression eventually put the pool out of business. In the 1930s, the owner of the building put a floor over the pool (the ceiling in the photo above) and made the place available for dancing and roller skating. Since that time, the building has served as a union hall, a department store, and now a performance venue. Through it all, the pool remains, identifiable now only by the sloping floor and the floor drains that would have been used to drain the pool.
I learned something new yesterday! About 10 years ago, a woman wrote in the "You Might Be From Golden If" Facebook group that she remembered watching the swimmers at the Golden Plunge. I had always wanted to ask her what she remembered about the pool, so I found her phone number yesterday and called her. She's 102 years old and has fond memories of the Golden Plunge. I asked if, when watching the swimmers, she was sitting on the pool deck on in a mezzanine above. She said there was a mezzanine. (The next time I sit in the Buffalo Rose mezzanine, I'll feel like I'm reliving history!)
Derek Giulianelli, the General Manager, was kind enough to show us some lesser-seen areas, such as the Stateroom on the second floor, which contains the oldest bar in Colorado.
Most of the group stayed for dinner after the tour and enjoyed the fine Buffalo Rose cuisine. Many thanks to the Buffalo Rose for a very fun evening. A good time was had by all!
Golden History: Little Demons
Golden High School Year Books
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98 Years Ago
In 1928, Golden High School held a contest to decide on a school mascot. The finalists were: Golden Buffaloes (7 votes), Golden Maroons (8 votes), Golden Mountaineers (10), Golden Bears (14), and the Golden Demons (131 votes).
From that time until this, Golden High School students have been known as “the Demons.”
60 Years Ago
Golden’s younger children always knew they were fated to be Demons. At no time was that so clearly spelled out as in this photo from the March 24, 1966 Colorado Transcript:
Weather
Overnight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 53. West wind around 6 mph.
Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 81. West wind 5 to 12 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.
Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 58. West wind 7 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 16 mph.
Tuesday Night: Partly Cloudy, 58°F
Wednesday: Mostly Sunny, 87°F
Wednesday Night: Mostly Clear, 58°F
Thursday: Mostly Sunny, 78°F
Thursday Night: Chance Light Rain then Mostly Cloudy, 40°F
Friday: Slight Chance Rain And Snow, 57°F
Friday Night: Mostly Cloudy, 41°F
Saturday: Partly Sunny then Slight Chance Light Rain, 74°F
Saturday Night: Mostly Cloudy, 50°F
Sunday: Mostly Cloudy then Slight Chance Light Rain, 76°F
Sunday Night: Chance Light Rain then Mostly Cloudy, 51°F
Monday: Mostly Cloudy then Chance Light Rain, 74°F
News About Golden - March 24, 2026
Mines engineering students take their skills worldwide
By Deb Hurley Brobst
Golden Transcript
Some students at the Colorado School of Mines are getting lessons in humanitarian engineering.
They are members of Mines Without Borders, a student chapter of Engineers Without Borders... Read more...
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Sponsors:
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Buffalo Rose, Buglet Solar, Foothills Art Center, Golden Cultural Alliance, Miners Alley Performing Arts Center, The Golden Mill, Golden Chamber of Commerce, Golden History Tours, Miners Saloon , Unite Fitness, Clothilde Elingbow, Michael Mason, Goosetown Station, and Earth Sweet Boutique
Friends:
($50-99.99/month or $575/yr)
Tall Pines Painting, Baby Doe’s Clothing, Goozell Yogurt & Coffee Paul Haseman, Donna Anderson, Carol & Doug Harwood, Stephanie Painter, Greg Poulos, Ann Norton & Jonathan Storer, Mary & Don Parker, Saré Merrigan, The Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Vic DeMaria, and Joy Brandt
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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, Kurt & Janet Siegfried, Ella Lyons & Jeanne Fritch, Robert Thresher, Tonie Mattox, Centennial State Wealth Advisors, Steve & M.L. Richardson, Jeremy & Stephanie Keller, AC Development
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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, 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, Richard Caldwell, Janice Waring, Sam & Marilyn Baron, Carmen Johnson, Mary Eiberger, Kevin Nichols, Ed & Carol Freza, Laura and Curtis Moore, Ruth Hund, Shelley & Jerry Devitt, Eileen Masterson, Kate Olivier, Amy Korengut, Pam Logan, Clare Shier, Wendy Weiman, Marge Frueh. Nannette Johnson, Edgar Walker, Bivy Beer Bar, Nancy Cooper, and Jane & Mike Templeton
Followers:
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Golden Community Garden, Lora Haimes, Mariane Erickson, J.J. Fraser, Mel Perkins, Bob Hamilton, Steve Stevens, Vicki Olson, Emily Kurzinski, Nanette Johnson, Peyton Gibson, Sally Berger, Kristen Morgan, Joyce Sutton, Mary Rains, Craig Champlin, Stan Swisher, Bill Way, Chris Toney, and Alicia Zimmerman
