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Golden Illuminating Company |
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This electric company was established December 1887. In 1893, the company lit 1,300 lights throughout Golden. From an article titled "Unwritten History" in the Colorado Transcript, July 10, 1930: "In this day when even a slight flicker of the electric lights is the signal for a rush of 'trouble shooters' a few Golden people remember the old Golden Illuminating company and its brand of juice. "Power was generated here in Golden, with steam. In the evening the engineer in charge would fire up and then adjourn to the Opera House Cigar store for a game of cards. There he would stay until the lights began to grow dim, when he would rush back to the power house, fire up again and hasten back to the game. Some evenings when the hand was particularly interesting and the game hard fought, the lights in Golden would be almost indistinguishable before the engineer could get back and get sufficient steam in his boiler. "Another thing old timers like to remember is that electric light globes were free. The customers merely turned in their burned out globes and received new ones in exchange." |
