by Doug Skiba | Mar 10, 2022 | Collections and Exhibits, Discover Magazine, Memoirs
Joe and Ruby Meyer opened Meyer Hardware & Sporting Goods in 1945 on Washington Avenue in Golden, Colorado. It was located at 1103 Arapahoe Street when it closed permanently on September 25, 2021. For the last 45 years Steve Schaefer had been operating this...
by admin | Oct 16, 2020 | Discover Magazine, Memoirs
The fall 2020 Discover magazine features an excerpt from “A Woman’s Life in Golden,” Betty Herron Gleaton’s memoir of growing up with polio (read the complete memoir in our online collection), and an account of traveling to Colorado in 1870 by Mrs. Mary Kalbaugh...
by Mark Dodge | Sep 12, 2020 | Collections and Exhibits, Memoirs
MEMOIRS of my treck across the Plains, the last time in 1870, and early childhood days. By Mrs. Mary Kalbaugh Whited. Pueblo, Colorado, April, 1948. It was in April, 1870, my Father with his family, also an uncle, Wm. F. Hunter, and family and other neighbors and...
by Mark Dodge | Sep 11, 2020 | Collections and Exhibits, Memoirs
My Polio Story By Betty Herron Gleaton I was recently asked if I had been in an accident by a twenty-something who was referring to my crutches and leg brace. I told him “No,” that I’d had polio and he asked “What’s that? I’ve never heard of it.” My first instinct was...
by Mark Dodge | Sep 5, 2020 | Collections and Exhibits, Golden Informer, Memoirs
Golden Colorado: Small Town with a Big Heart Recollections of the late 1950s by ChristiLee LaDuke WELCOME TO GOLDEN The last time I visited Golden was in 2015. We were greeted by the same arch I remember as a child, “Howdy Folks -Welcome to Golden – Where...
by Mark Dodge | Apr 14, 2015 | Books, Collections and Exhibits, Memoirs
The fourth installment of Golden Memories A Time…A Town comes from Chapter Seven, titled Golden Clay Mines. George offers a thorough description of this long-lived Golden industry. While it’s great material, it’s a little long for this format, so...
