My friend Stuart (seen in the photograph on the left) and I had Cubano sandwiches and beers at the TrailHead Taphouse and Kitchen last night in beautiful and historic downtown Golden. This was a departure from our usual routine of heading to the Old Chicago restaurant in nearby Lakewood, the Denver suburb where Stuart lives and at one time the brief (and I mean really brief) home of beat generation legend Jack Kerouac. I wonder why so brief? But I digress. Thanks to a butte cutting it off from the rest of the metropolitan area, Golden (the first capitol of Colorado) has retained it's historic neighborhoods and small town charm.
Instead of dining inside and watching the first NFL game of the season, we decided to eat outside on the patio, with a view of the Astor House Museum ( a former 19th century rooming house) and the foothills beyond. We were also just across the street from the Capitol Grill, which was Colorado's first state capitol. The legislature met upstairs on the 2nd floor, and would retire to the first floor bar when their legislative duties were done for the day. The place still has it's glass enclosed "ladies parlor," where all women were required to sit in order to not be corrupted by the barroom atmosphere. I imagine that soon this old tradition will once again be required via a Trump executive order, and then the Capitol Grill will be way ahead of the curve. Far out!
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