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Produce, Train Rides, Recycling, Ranching Women, and a Fire at the Power Company

Golden Eye Candy – Richard Lucken – The History Park, Densely Green – enlarge

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?

Golden Farmers Market – images by Chris Davell – enlarge


7AM New and Prospective Member Hike @ Apex Park
8AM Saturday Morning Run and Social Walk @ Golden History Park
8AM-1PM Golden Farmers Market @ Golden Library west parking lot


9AM-1PM Paint & Electronics Recycling Day @ Golden High School Parking Lot
9:30-11:30AM Full Walking Tour @ Dinosaur Ridge
10AM-noon Breakfast Burritos @ The Golden Mill
10AM-3PM Brunch at the Rose @ Buffalo Rose


10AM-3PM Saturday Train Rides @ Colorado Railroad Museum
10AM and 11AM Preschool Nature Nuts – Amazing Hummingbirds @ Lookout Mountain Nature Center
10:15AM Family Time @ Golden Library


10AM-5PM Bastille Day Celebration @ Earth Sweet Boutique (map)
Join our French style boutique for this annual celebration and excuse for a party! This party is a favorite and brings together our community with live acoustic music, free drinks & snacks, great discounts and loads of fun! 

  • Live, acoustic music – The Earth Sweet Band returns
  • Warm Organic popcorn from our machine
  • Snacks & Drinks
  • French tattoos & bubbles

Stop in and say hello to the Earth Sweet team.  Free Earth Sweet Boutique

10:30AM-3PM Sewing Bee @ First Presbyterian Church of Golden
12-12:30PM Quick Class: Tasty Turmeric @ Natural Grocers


1:30-3PM Ranching Women of Colorado @ Golden History Museum
The 19th century west opened opportunities for women, including entering the male-dominated ranching industry. Join author Linda Womack as she tells the stories of women ranchers in Colorado. These women not only survived, but thrived, in a role outside the conventional norm. Tickets

3-4:30PM Make Something: Personalized Reusable Bag @ Golden Library

SEE THE COMPLETE CALENDAR OF EVENTS.

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LIVE MUSIC


11AM-2PM Scott Slay @ The Buffalo Rose

2PM Ravin’ Wolf @ Over Yonder
4-8PM Kristin Kay Band @ Wrigley’s
5-8PM Live Music @ Eddy Taproom
5:30-8:30PM Splendid Blend @ Goosetown Station


7-10PM Chris Child @ The Buffalo Rose


7-9PM Naked Dawn Duo @ Morris & Mae
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern

GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT

Golden Illuminating Company power plant at 13th and Jackson – from the 1893 Golden Globe Industrial Edition


113 Years Ago
The July 15, 1909 Colorado Transcript described a fire at the Golden Illuminating Company’s transformer building. Golden’s electric power company was located on Jackson Street, between 12th and 13th. Originally they generated the power on site by burning coal, but by 1909 they were importing power from Denver through several miles of high voltage wires.

The cause of the fire was “lightning coming in on the wires from near Denver.” The damage in the Golden facility was considerable:

…practically every machine and instrument in the building, with the exception of the three largest transformers, were destroyed, either by the great heat from the fire or by the burning out of the coils with the overcharge of electricity. The lightning evidently came several miles over the wires, as there was no storm here that evening. The bolt was so heavy that the lightning arresters proved useless and the mysterious fluid jumped across directly to the potential transformers, all of which were destroyed.

The power plant appears on Jackson Street, partially obscured by trees – enlarge Excerpted from a Denver Public Library Western History photo


The reference to “mysterious fluid” (electrical current) is interesting. People weren’t accustomed to dealing with electricity at that time. The article mentions that the fire fighters were about to aim their hoses at the high tension wires, but the Illuminating Company employees stopped them just in time. Such a move might have electrocuted the fire fighters.

The damage was so great that the town expected to operate by candlelight for a week, but the Illuminating Company employees were able to patch things together and get Golden’s lights running by the next night.

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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