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How do you move a 3,800-pound safe? Very carefully!

by admin | Jun 17, 2022 | City of Golden, Collections and Exhibits

Moving the safe At least one professional safe mover said we were crazy and that it couldn’t be done. “Old safes were not built to be moved,” he said. But a team from the City of Golden’s Streets Department proved otherwise, when on May 13, we safely transported a...

Golden Museum gets a sweet treat

by admin | Jan 14, 2021 | Collections and Exhibits, Golden History Museum

Grandson of Jolly Rancher founders donates trove of company artifacts January 8, 2021 By Paul Albani-Burgio, Golden Transcript Aside from cold cans of Coors and scores of brainy School of Mines grads, there is perhaps no Golden export more famous — or beloved — than...

Legacy Collection Inventory Project

by admin | Feb 5, 2020 | Collections and Exhibits

Overview Eighty-one years ago, Golden History Museum & Park began collecting artifacts, photographs, and archives to document and preserve Golden’s past. Today, the museum houses over 16,000 objects and is the largest, richest collection of Golden history....

Bittersweet: Confronting the Complicated Past of the “Lazy Squaw Chocolate”

by admin | Jan 25, 2020 | Collections and Exhibits

The words we choose to use say a lot about who we are, what we believe, and the time we live in. For words that are associated with race and gender, they can also become complicated and painful reminders of America’s difficult relationship between majority and...

The backstory on Lazy Squaw Ranch

by admin | Nov 22, 2019 | Collections and Exhibits

Bill and Dorothy Harmsen named their mountain retreat Lazy Squaw and used the name in some of their early candy marketing. Following is Dorothy’s original article about the ranch which ran in the August 1964 issue of Sugar ‘N Spice. THE LAZY SQUAW RANCH...