The Outdoor Shrine to Edible Consumerism

“If you look closely, between the outdoor seating for those two bistros, you can see the building that used to contain the old Federal Territory administration. And if you look between that bar with the awning and the outdoor seating, and that restaurant, you can see where a small group of miners and their families who survived the Ludlow Massacre, came down to Golden to protest for better safety conditions for all Colorado mine workers. And if you look down that street, in the storefront behind that outdoor seating, where the restaurant is now, you can see where the strikebreakers and the Colorado National Guard organized. And finally, this is something of a more personal note, I’m going to briefly stop the bus at the top of that hill. If you look down the street, and if you mentally erase all the seating enclosures, you can get a view of what this town was like when my great-granddaddy came up from Denver to buy the cheaper beer from Coors, back when it was still a union brewery. I’m told that the beer from Coors was enjoyed by his patrons just as much as the more expensive beer from Tivoli. But the greater distance of the Coors brewery to his bar, versus the Tivoli brewery that was just down the street, made his trips to Coors more sporadic. It was at least a couple decades from the time that Tivoli closed, to the time that Coors broke up the union. If you look next to the sushi restaurant, you can see where the members of American G.I. Forum used to meet for outdoor quarter-pitching games to discuss the original boycott of Coors.”