9AM The Public Art Commission meets this morning in City Council Chambers. They will discuss their “next big project” (as yet undefined) and several smaller projects. They will soon be adding art to several signal boxes around town and relocate the “Run and Fly” installataion. They also plan to talk to management at Fossil Trace (the golf course) about installing some public art there. See the meeting packet for more information….
5:30PM Big Ring Cycles is offering a Trailside First Aid class for cyclists tonight. The class is FREE but advance registration is requested and space is limited.
6:30PM City Council meets tonight in City Council chambers. The meeting will be preceded by one executive session (at 6PM) and followed by another. The 6PM meeting involves an ongoing dispute with IBM. As I recall, it involves sales or use tax. (Presumably, we think they should pay it and IBM thinks they shouldn’t.) The one after the meeting concerns negotiations regarding “property near Archer Street south of 10th Street” AND legal questions regarding “Property Lying East Of Ford Street Near 10th Street.”
The business meeting will include a presentation about the 2020 Census and another presentation about the Heart of Golden (remodeling the land along Clear Creek). They will also revisit a decision they made last week. The owner of 2018 Washington Avenue (map) wants to build a garage that would encroach up to 10 feet into the setback for his R1 zoned property. The Planning Commission considered the request and did not approve it on January 8th. The owner appealed their decision to City Council. Council discussed it last week (February 27th) and upheld the Planning Commission’s decision. The owner called the Planning Department to say he hadn’t been told that Council would be discussing his case last week, and asked that he be able to present his case to Council. So they are reopening the case and will hear from the owner tonight and consider the question again. See the meeting packet for more information….
More Thursday Events:
9:15AM Baby Time at the Library
10AM Ladies Billiards at the Front Porch
10:15AM Toddler Time at the Library
11:15AM Family Yoga at the Library
2PM Microsoft Publisher: Basics at the Library
6:15PM Overeaters Anonymous at Natural Grocers (map)
6:30PM Overeaters Anonymous at the Methodist Church (map)
Thursday Music:
6PM Derek Hall & the Possibilities at Buffalo Rose
6PM Dave Frisk at Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
6PM Teresa Carroll at the Golden Hotel
6PM Stillhouse Junkies at New Terrain Brewing Company
6PM Open Pick Night at Over Yonder Brewing
8PM Karaoke at Rock Rest Lodge
9PM Karaoke at Ace-Hi Tavern
Preview of Friday Events:
9:15AM Baby Time at the Library
9:30AM Bowing Down To It No More – The Battle For Woman Suffrage
10AM Open Studio at Foothills Art Center
10:15AM Toddler Time at the Library
12PM Concert in the Mines Library – Elizabeth Palmiotti – Classical Piano
12PM Grandmas on Strike about Climate Change – 10th & Washington
1PM The Friday Tour at the Railroad Museum – Highlights
4PM Vaccine, License & Microchip Clinic at Foothills Animal Shelter
7PM Rescheduled: Colorado Rails and Cocktails: Locomotive No. 20
70 Years Ago
RTD is currently proposing a cutback to bus service between Denver and Golden. I was thinking about that when I ran across an article in the March 9, 1950 Colorado Transcript entitled “No. 83 Abandonment Will Be Considered On Monday By P.U.C.”
Golden used to be served by two interurban railway routes from Denver. The No. 83 came through Arvada and entered Golden by way of the gap between North and South Table Mountains. The No. 84 came through Lakewood, along South Golden Road and along Jackson Street. Both routes ended on the east side of 13th and Washington.
In 1950, the Denver Tramway Company (the R.T.D. of its day) demonstrated that the line wasn’t paying for itself. All of the Denver-area streetcars and interurbans were being shut down at that time, but most were slated to be replaced with bus service. That was not the case with Golden’s No. 83 line. The Tramway Company planned to run bus service only as far as Mount Olivet cemetery on 44th Avenue. Golden made no protest, so when the railways were shut down in June of 1950, we lost the 83 route through Arvada. The No. 84 line, through Lakewood, was replaced with bus service.
Many thanks to the Golden History Museum for providing the online cache of historic Transcripts, and many thanks to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866.
