Picasso Under Leaden Skies
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What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Tuesday, May. 14th
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - Live Workouts with Community Center Pros
- All day - Golden History Tours
- 9-10AM - Women's Exercise and Bible Study
- 9AM - Golden Seniors - Coffee Klatch
- 9:15-9:45AM - Baby Time
- 10AM-12PM - DeLong Park Weedbusters
- 10:15-10:45AM - Preschool Time
- 10:30AM - Front Porch Friends Meeting
- 1:30-3PM - Google Docs
- 4:30-5:30PM - Teen Advisory Board - Golden Library
- 5PM - City Council Regular Business Meeting & Study Session
- 5-7PM - VIBE@Five
- 5:30PM - Golden High School PTA Meeting
- 5:30-8PM - Continuing Exploration of the Elements of Art
- 6-8PM - Trivia Tuesdays
- 6-7:30PM - Underneath the Starry Flag: The First Colorado Volunteers in the Spanish American War in the Philippines 1898-99
- 6:30-8:30PM - Team Trivia Tuesday
- 6:30-8:30PM - Bar Bingo Night
- 6:30-8:30PM - Communicate More - Say Less
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
V.I.B.E. @ Five @ TMI
VIBE@FIVE is Golden's Happy Hour! Come join other members of the Golden Chamber of Commerce for this "Very Important Business Event" - VIBE!
This event is for members of the Golden Chamber of Commerce and their guests as well as for members of the Golden Young Professionals.
Become a member
Stop in for a quick hello and a refreshment right after work and a chance to get to know fellow members of the Golden Chamber of Commerce and Golden Young Professionals. This is a great networking and socializing event.
Table Mountain Inn
1310 Washington Avenue (map)
Communicate More - Say Less @ Miners Alley
A PHYSICAL STORYTELLING WORKSHOP WITH NYC’S BROKEN BOX MIME THEATER
Broken Box Mime Theater (BKBX) invites performers, directors, playwrights, theater artists, and the mime-curious of all backgrounds to join in exploring the audience’s imagination as medium. From the perspective of BKBX’s unique brand of mime based in American narrative style, participants will look at body language, basic mime technique, staging metaphor, efficiency in storytelling, and devised process.
The specific techniques of silent storytelling we discover (e.g. how to establish character, environment, conversation, circumstance without words) will expand our palette, offering new methods of creating stage imagery when working in any theatrical style. We will use creative play, creative problem-solving, and group innovation to make the seemingly unstageable stageable, introducing the audience’s imagination as a storytelling tool.
Miners Alley Performing Arts Center
1103 Arapahoe Street (map)
1:30-3PM Google Docs @ Golden Library
Learn how to store and edit documents using Google Docs.
Prerequisites: Intermediate computer and internet skills.
Golden Library
1019 10th Street (map)
6PM Underneath the Starry Flag: The First Colorado Volunteers in the Spanish American War in the Philippines 1898-99 @ Golden History Museum
The U.S. had 45 stars in the flag in 1898-99
Underneath the Starry Flag
In 1898, the 1st Colorado Volunteer Infantry enlisted to fight the Spanish in Cuba, but instead raised the first American flag over Manila. With the war over, they hoped to return home, but the U.S. government had other plans. This talk describes the First Colorado’s role in the first year of the war in the Philippines. It also looks at their daily life and some challenges they faced. This was America’s first overseas war.
About the Presenter
Geoff Hunt earned his Ph.D. in Western American social history from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1996. His dissertation research led to Colorado’s Volunteer Infantry in the Philippine Wars, 1898-1899, published in 2006. After 22 years as Professor of History at the Community College of Aurora, he retired in 2019, and became a free-range historian.
Tickets
GHM&P is transitioning to a new ticketing program. In the meantime, please contact us directly to register.
Golden History Museum
923 10th Street (map)
Live Music for Tuesday, May. 14th
1PM Kingpin Posse @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
6PM Karaoke with Linda @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
6-9PM High Country Hoedown - Country Pickin' with the OYB House Band @ Over Yonder Brewing
For more information, visit the Golden Today Calendar
Golden History: The Insufficiency of the Bucket of Blood Ordinance
Headline from the May 13, 1943 Colorado Transcript
81 Years (and one day) Ago
The May 13, 1943 Colorado Transcript led with the lurid headline, “Citizens Consider ‘Bucket of Blood’ Ordinance Insufficient: Men and Women Petition City Council for Protective Regulations for Children.”
That Golden citizens are thoroughly aroused over what they have seen happening on the streets, in alleys, and in places of refreshment and amusement at hours when young children should be at home with their parents, was evidenced last Friday night when the Golden City Council chambers were crowded to overflowing with men and women…urging that ordinances be passed and enforced which will discourage and decrease juvenile delinquency.
Colorado Transcript – May 13, 1943
Wow! What awful things were happening to Golden’s children in 1943?
The article goes on to explain that parents were concerned that teenagers (not precisely “young children”) were playing pool and drinking 3.2% beer in Golden. Representatives from “the Big Four” (the Chamber, the PTA, the Kiwanis, and the Lions) all petitioned City Council to establish a curfew and fund a supervised summer recreation program so that Golden’s youth would have wholesome alternatives to pool and beer.
The appeals were successful. A supervised summer recreation program was funded and a curfew of 9:30PM was established for children aged 18 and younger.
But what was the “Bucket of Blood?” To learn about that, we need to go back to…
104 Years (and one day) Ago
The May 13, 1920 Colorado Transcript announced that 40 prominent women had spoken to City Council in support of a “Cabaret Ordinance.” The new law would require cafes and restaurants to apply for a permit, pay a license fee, and provide letters of commendation by “two reputable citizens of the city.” Businesses that sold only food would be assessed modest fees. Businesses that also offered dancing, music, card-playing or other entertainments would pay much higher permit fees.
The goal of the worthy citizens was to close down one particularly disreputable business on Washington Avenue called the “Bucket of Blood.” That establishment evidently offered “dancing, music, card-playing or other entertainments.” Worse still, it was reputedly frequented by people from Denver.
The ordinance passed, and the offending Bucket of Blood closed a month later.
The Transcript was such a respectable newspaper, and such a Golden booster, that it’s nearly impossible to find any evidence of historic vice. Sometimes, though, we can infer its presence by tracking new ordinances as they arise.
105 Years Ago
In 1919, Council passed an ordinance stating that “no bawdy house, house of ill-fame, house of assignation, or place for the practice of fornication, or common ill-governed or disorderly house, dance hall, road-house or cafe with dance hall in connection, or cabaret shall be kept or maintained within the limits of the City of Golden.”
Was that ordinance passed in response to existing businesses, or was Council just anxious that no such businesses come to Golden? On this issue, the Transcript is mum.
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!
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Weather
Overnight: Mostly cloudy. Low around 50, with temperatures rising to around 54 overnight. West wind around 8 mph.
Tuesday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Partly sunny. High near 74, with temperatures falling to around 69 in the afternoon. West wind 7 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 9pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 9pm and midnight, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy. Low around 47, with temperatures rising to around 49 overnight. West northwest wind 3 to 12 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Tuesday Night: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 47°F
Wednesday: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Showers And Thunderstorms Likely, 61°F
Wednesday Night: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Mostly Cloudy, 46°F
Thursday: Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 68°F
Thursday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 49°F
Friday: Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 77°F
Friday Night: Mostly Clear, 53°F
Saturday: Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 78°F
Saturday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 52°F
Sunday: Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 76°F
Sunday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 50°F
Monday: Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 74°F
News Relating to Golden - May 14, 2024
Illinois Street Will Be Closed from Tue 5/14 thru Tues 5/28, between 7:00am – 7:00pm
Operations
Colorado School of Mines
Access to the houses and the USGS building on Illinois St, will be closed in the vicinity of 17th St for the duration of the closure. The sidewalks on either side of Illinois will also be closed... Download press release below.
Fairmount Trail a great place for long runs at the edge of suburbia in Jefferson County
By John Meyer
Denver Post
One of my go-to running trails when I’m looking for a soft surface, relatively flat terrain and nice views is the Fairmount Trail from Golden to Arvada.
Starting in the 4400 block of Easley Road, the Fairmount Trail runs north along an irrigation ditch just east of North Table Mountain to 64th Avenue at Long Lake Regional Park. North of 64th, it connects to the Ralston Creek Trail, which runs through Arvada... Read more...
Colorado School of Mines graduates celebrate accomplishments, resilience after pandemic
By Corrine Westeman
Golden Transcript
The students who graduated high school in 2020 were resilient.
They had to be.
Amid COVID-19 shutdowns and restrictions, many of them spent their final weeks of high school in virtual classrooms, having prom over Zoom and graduating at drive-thru ceremonies... Read more...
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