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School property is located left of the photo and the old Safeway property is located to the right. The Coors Wel1ness Center currently exists where the Safeway Store was located in 1965. Photo '3. This photograph was taken from a location beneath the existing Highway 58 overpass. The 1965 flood occurred prior to the construction of the new highway. The Church Ditch siphon can be seen near the center of the photo. The building in the background is the Coors Porcelain Company. The exposed sanitary sewer line has been replaced by a new line running along the west side of Ford Street. Photo '4. The worker in the foreground is cleaning debris from the small culverts under the old road embankment. Boyd Street is in the background along the top of the photo. The stream channel has been located to the west, since the 1965 flood. Today, Garden Street is located where this channel once existed. Photo '5. This photo was taken from approximately the same location as Photo '2. Clean up of mud and debris are in progress. Photo '6. This photo was taken from the north side of the Ford Street bridge and shows the same clean up operation as Photo IS. Flood of May 6, 1973 - Golden Daily Transcript, May 7, 1973 "Golden's Tucker Gulch, which is the drainage route from Golden Gate Canyon, became a galloping torrent of muddy water enroute to its junction with Clear Creek near the Coors Brewery. The gulch, which was channelized after a bad flood in 1965, seemed to be bearing up well under the onslaught of the waters into the early afternoon, but the dirt banks began to give way about 4 p;m. around 7th Street near the Colo. 58 overpass. By evening, the waters of Tucker Gulch had eaten away the fill around the east end of the bridge and threatened the bridge itself. The Adolph Coors Company supplied the City of Golden with a large bulldozer 5