Bright and Cold December
Photo by Joyce Davell
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What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Wednesday, Dec. 18th
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - Live Workouts with Community Center Pros
- All day - Golden History Tours
- 9-11AM - Golden Walks
- 10AM-5PM - Foothills Art Center - Holiday Art Market
- 10AM-1PM - Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum Demo Days
- 10AM-5PM - Foothills Art Center - Holiday Art Market
- 10:15-10:45AM - Toddler Time - Registration Required
- 3-5PM - Virtual/Call In: Hard Times Writing Workshop
- 4-5PM - Tween Scene: Gaming & Technology
- 5-7PM - Golden Comprehensive Plan Community Engagement & Feedback Opportunity
- 5-9PM - Ski X Board Tune Night
- 6:30PM - Trivia Night
- 7:30PM - A Christmas Carol
- 7:30PM - A Christmas Carol
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
New City Hall
Architectural renders of Golden's new City Hall
The six City Councilors present at last night's meeting voted unanimously to build a new City Hall and police station. To learn more about the plans, see the December 3rd meeting packet.
It looks like a nice building, and I'm confident that it will win awards for design and energy efficiency.
10AM-1PM Demo Days @ Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
Wednesdays through mid-December there will be a new PROJECT or TOOL demonstrated between 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. in the gallery.
Today, they're featuring "Quick and Easy Last Minute Gifts."
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
200 Violet Street, Suite 150 (map)
4-5PM Tween Scene: Gaming & Technology @ the Library
Tweens in grades 4 to 6 are invited to visit the library for a monthly event just for them! There will be various crafts, activities and games for Tweens to enjoy on a regular basis.
Today’s Activity: Gaming & Technology
Golden Library
1019 10th Street (map)
5-7PM Golden Comprehensive Plan Community Engagement & Feedback @ Cannonball Creek Brewing
A Comprehensive Plan is a policy document that guides long-term decisions for the City, covering land-use decisions like rezoning, infrastructure investments, and programming choices. It lays the foundation for future zoning codes, which then turn the plan into reality.
This is another opportunity for public feedback.
Learn more about the Comprehensive Plan on the Guiding Golden page.
Cannonball Creek Brewing Company
393 Washington Avenue (map)
Live Music for Wednesday, Dec. 18th
- 6-9PM Jordan Yewey @ Miners Saloon
- More Live Music
4-8PM Chrispy @ Mountain Toad
6PM Live Music @ Rock Rest Lodge
For more information, visit the Golden Today Calendar
Golden History: Transitioning to War
Colorado Transcript - December 18, 1941
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83 Years Ago
The December 18, 1941 Colorado Transcript showed Golden at a transitional time. After the December 6th bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt had declared war on Japan. On the 11th of December, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States, so the U.S., in turn, declared war on them.
The front page of the paper announced that Golden had lost a native son, Allen A. Davis. For reasons of national security, the Navy had not yet announced where Fireman 3rd Class Davis had been killed, though there was little mystery about it. A later issue mentioned that Davis’s parents received a Christmas gift from their son—a pillow cover from Hawaii—on December 30th. He was buried in the national cemetery in Honolulu.
In Golden, Christmas celebrations were in full swing and the paper was full of advertisements for consumer goods. Many of those items—from lumber to appliances to silk stockings—would be unavailable during the holiday seasons of 1942, ’43, ’44, and ’45. The same was true of the wide variety of food advertised in 1941.
The editorial section reflected this divided thought process, as the Transcript was torn between expressions of patriotism and its usual encouragement to shop at the local stores.
“I’M GOING TO DO MY PART,” SAYS SANTA
Are we down hearted at this Christmas time? Hell No! It’s gong to take more than a war with Japan, Hitler and Mussolini to rob Golden and Jefferson county people and particularly the children of the MERRY CHRISTMAS. On Washington avenue, …the stores are full of shoppers, the post office is flooded with mountains of packages–cakes, cookies, candies, warm scarfs, mittens, and all sorts of gifts are speeding to our boys in training camps and at the front.
Interestingly, the Transcript anticipated women filling in on “men’s jobs” during the war:
The rumor that Santa Claus has been drafted is false–but if it were true Mrs. Santa Claus, God Bless her, will be right on the job, as she always is, seeing to it that the stockings of all good little boys and girls are filled to overflowing.
One Golden business had begun incorporating the war into their advertising. The Golden Mill reminded its customers that “Soldiers Must Have Good Food.” Egg output would be better with their Purina chicken chow. “Eggs for Defense!”
A local labor union–International Hod Carriers and Builders of America, Golden 410–sponsored an advertisement encouraging people to buy war bonds.
The Transcript from a year later shows Golden in a more restrained mood, with much talk of rationing, conserving, re-using, and making do.
Golden History: Postcards Plus
Before color photography was available, postcard publishers used to hand-tint black and white photos. The postcard above looks like some exceptional night photography, but in reality it's this photo, with painted embellishments.
Here are several more examples, contributed by Bill Robie:
Many publishers of postcards in the early 1900s embellished their images. They added features not really there, removed features they felt unattractive, incorrectly placed features in the wrong location and even moved features from out of view into the scene to enhance the visual.
This first example adds the image of an Indian chief in the lower right corner. The thought probably was that the Indian will make the card more saleable. No one worried about where or on what the Indian is standing. Notice the five mounted horsemen on the top of Castle Rock. Probably real.
Look closely at this scene of Golden and you will notice that the winding Lookout Mountain road passes behind the front face of Mt. Zion, rather than in-front as constructed. Also, the approach route to the base of the mountain, at least in part, seems imagined. And the alignment of the “Incline RR” (Lookout Mountain Park Funicular) was actually constructed up the ridge to the right of where shown. Were the snow-capped mountains on the distant horizon added?
In this interesting photo image of Golden, everything looks true and accurate, but wait. Notice that the School of Mines Guggenheim Hall building has been repositioned about three blocks to the north (visually to the right of the old South School) perhaps to show Golden has even more impressive buildings than would otherwise be shown.
This is an unmodified photo of Washington Avenue except for the blue sky color wash.
This is the same photo (colorized) with a number of additions and deletions. The four people in the middle of the street have been added. Apparently, the telephone or electric poles and the wagon tracks were all considered unattractive and removed.
Thanks to Bill Robie for his sharp eye and keep insights!
Weather
Overnight: Partly cloudy. Low around 27, with temperatures rising to around 29 overnight. West southwest wind around 8 mph.
Wednesday: Partly sunny. High near 56, with temperatures falling to around 50 in the afternoon. West southwest wind 8 to 12 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.
Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy. Low around 41, with temperatures rising to around 45 overnight. West southwest wind 9 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.
Wednesday Night: Partly Cloudy, 41°F
Thursday: Mostly Sunny, 59°F
Thursday Night: Mostly Clear, 35°F
Friday: Mostly Sunny, 61°F
Friday Night: Partly Cloudy, 39°F
Saturday: Sunny, 61°F
Saturday Night: Partly Cloudy, 40°F
Sunday: Partly Sunny, 60°F
Sunday Night: Mostly Cloudy, 39°F
Monday: Partly Sunny, 54°F
Monday Night: Partly Cloudy, 37°F
Tuesday: Mostly Sunny, 58°F
News About Golden - December 18, 2024
Top tea spots to explore from Fort Collins to Manitou Springs
By Jamie Siebrase
Denver Post
Picture this: Daylight is petering out behind the snow-capped Rockies, and it’s getting cold — really cold. You’re comfortable, though, sipping loose-leaf tea from a pot, nibbling on delicate, scratch-made pastries.
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