What’s Happening in Golden Today?
9-10AM Women’s Exercise and Bible Study @ First United Methodist Church
9:15-9:45AM Baby Time @ Golden Library
10AM-5PM Holiday Art Market @ Foothills Art Center
10:15-10:45AM Preschool Time @ Golden Library
6:30-8:30PM Bar Bingo Night @ VFW Post 4171
Live Music
6PM Karaoke with Linda @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
6PM Open Bluegrass Pick Night @ Over Yonder Brewing
Trivia
6PM Trivia Tuesdays @ Golden Mill
6:30-8:30PM Team Trivia Tuesdays @ Buffalo Rose
Plan Ahead for Saturday, New Year’s Eve
8PM New Year’s Eve @ Morris and Mae
Christmas is done, it’s time for NYE plans! Join us at Morris and Mae for your celebrations! Not only are we offering bottomless champagne, appetizers, DJs RYLHGHNSS and Movesayer, and balloon drop, but with ticket purchase, you receive $99 room rates at Origins Red Rocks Hotel for the night! (Normally $209)
6PM New Year’s Eve @ The Golden Mill
Get your party on early. Dj Drake will be here spinning the music of the decades. We will be watching the ball drop in New York City. There will be complimentary hot chocolate for the kids and champagne for the adults when the ball drops.
Golden History Moment
I’m always impressed by the number and severity of traffic accidents in the early years of automobiles. Impressed, but not surprised: all of the drivers were new and none of the safety rules had been established. There were no speed limits, and no rules requiring one party to yield to another.
105 Years Ago
The December 27, 1917 Colorado Transcript included this article:
TWO HURT WHEN AUTO HITS STREET CAR
Idaho Springs Attorney and School Teacher of That City Injured in Golden
AUTO STRIKES STREET CAR
Injured People Rushed to Hospital–Big Auto is Badly Smashed
Fred L. Collom, prominent lawyer of Idaho Springs, and Miss Graham, school teacher in that city, were seriously injured in Golden Monday evening, when Collom’s automobile crashed into a street car at the corner of Twelfth and Washington avenue. Miss Graham was returning to Idaho Springs with Mr. Collom, after spending the day shopping in Denver. Collom was driving at a fair rate of speed, wishing to get home for Christmas eve festivities.
Miss Graham suffered a fractured skull and very severe cuts. It is feared by physicians that the deep cuts on her face will leave her permanently disfigured. Mr. Collom was suffering from severe pains in his stomach, and it may be that he sustained internal injuries. The automobile, and inclosed Kissel car, was badly damaged.
The accident occurred at 8:30. Just before Collom reached Twelfth street the electric car started across and the Collom auto struck it amidships. Fortunately the auto did not turn over, or the injuries to the occupants might have been still more serious.
Golden passed its first traffic ordinance in 1919. It included such basics as driving on the right side of the road and not driving while intoxicated. Our first streetlight (at 12th and Washington) was installed in 1946.
Most of those new “autoists” would have learned to drive using horses & wagons. Horses provided a safety feature that automobiles lacked: a sense of self-preservation. A horse would not have plowed into the side of a streetcar. He would have seen it and stopped.
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!