WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
10AM-12PM Rocky Mountain Quilt Study Group @ Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
10:30AM and 1:30PM The Friday Tour @ Colorado Railroad Museum
12-12:55PM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
1-1:45PM Silver Sneakers Yoga (Virtual)
3PM Vaccine, License & Microchip Clinic @ Foothills Animal Shelter
5-6PM Ribbon-Cutting & Grand Opening @ Sangha Juice (map)
5-9PM Oktoberfest @ Denver Kickers Sports Club
6-9PM Open House Night @ Mines Museum of Earth Science
Join us for our annual Open House, a special event we put on every year for geology fans far and wide!
Hors D’Oeuvres & Liquid Nitrogen Desserts by The Inventing Room
Cash Bar | Must be 21+ to attend.
7PM Golden Ghosts & Spirits Tour
7:30PM Avenue Q: The Musical @ Miners Alley Playhouse
SEE THE COMPLETE CALENDAR OF EVENTS.
LIVE MUSIC
4:15PM Marafiki @ New Terrain Brewing
5-8PM Live Music @ Eddy Taproom
5PM DeadPhish Duo @ Over Yonder
5:30-8:30PM JJ Brown’s Raw Soul Funk@ Goosetown Station
5:30-7:30PM Parmalee Gulch Ramblers @ Morris & Mae
6-10PM Brian Hornbuckle Band @ Wrigley’s
6:15PM Violet Pilot @ New Terrain Brewing
7-10PM Los Tres Cajones @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
8:15PM Bill McKay Band @ New Terrain Brewing
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
SATURDAY PREVIEW
The eagerly-awaited annual studio sale, featuring the work of two of Golden’s favorite artists–the Famous Judy Madison and the Fabulous Gene Youngmann–takes place tomorrow, 10AM to 4PM. They will be at Judy’s mountain studio, 27602 School House Road (map).
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
September 1920
100 years ago today, two young Golden men were robbed on 12th Street. They were on their way home when a man came up behind them and demanded that they hold up their hands. They turned around and “found themselves looking into the business end of a six shooter. One man was relieved of a valuable pocket watch and the other lost several dollars. The robber then told them to “beat it” and shot at them. The bullet went through the shirt and undershirt of one of the young men, “slightly broke the skin,” and gave him powder burns. The robber got away.
Such tales are rare in Golden’s history, so I went in search of other hold-ups.
November 1906
A Golden High School boy was returning to his home on “the middle road” (32nd St.), when a man accosted him and demanded his money. The boy said he was broke. The man lunged toward him to verify the broke-ness. The boy “gave the man such a fight he was glad to take to his heels, and will probably not pick out a Golden High school boy as his victim next time.”
August 1925
An armed man stepped in front of automobile on 10th Street and commanded the driver to stop. The driver stepped down on the accelerator and got away.
February 1950
Two junior high boys were walking near 19th and Ford when two 16 year olds accosted them with a knife. The thieves got 5 cents from one of the boys and nothing from the other. Police were unable to track down the robbers.
There have been a fair number of business robberies over the years, but those were the only articles I found of people being assaulted and robbed on the streets of Golden.
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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