100 years ago: “Attorney Moody, who learned to fish on the prairie in the Dakotas, was at Electra Lake – a bite came swift and fast, pole, line and reel disappeared in direction of bottom of lake. There being neither shark nor sea monster in Electra Lake it must have been a giant rainbow – and to think of enormous fish story the public escaped.”
75 years ago: “‘The Spanish Trails Fiesta parades will be bigger and better this year than ever before,’ is the promise of the committee from the 20-30 Club of Durango, which is in charge of the parades and decorations for the Fiesta.”
50 years ago: “A spectacular lightning storm, and a couple of showers marked a summer Sunday in Durango. Although the official precipitation measurement gave Durango only 0.35 of an inch of moisture, other markers ranged upwards to 0.75 of an inch.”
25 years ago: “The Fort Lewis College Pub, a 3.2 bar established in 1977, is being closed down permanently because college officials don’t believe it has a future under a new drinking law. The Pub was a zero-balance operation funded by the Fort Lewis Student Government. What that means is, if the Pub sustained a loss, the student government covered the loss out of its funds. If the Pub showed a profit, the money was put back into the student government’s fund.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not have been verified.
