100 years ago: “The new theater being completed by J. O. Taylor on the corner of 10th Street and Main Avenue, and which will give its initial performance tomorrow night, is the most up-to-the-minute place of its kind in the southwest section of the state.”
75 years ago: “The La Plata County Women’s Extension Club met at the Animas Valley School. Plans were presented for a flower show for the flower gardens in the county.”
50 years ago: “Two additional passenger coaches, a new private car, and a rebuilt baggage car have enabled the train so far in the 1963 season to carry roughly a third more passengers than in the same 15 days of last year. By this morning, the narrow gauge will have carried close to 6,500 passengers this year, compared to 4,857 through June 22 of 1962. But when they’re all full, as they were Saturday, it takes both of the systems’s 470-series engines to pull the train.”
25 years ago: Hesperus – “Most people whose jobs aren’t related to farming and ranching don’t even know where the San Juan Basin Agricultural Research Center is – much less what it does. But what takes place on this 6,318-acre facility just south of here is vital to the progress of farming and ranching in Colorado, and those people in agriculture are more than just a little interested in what is going on.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not have been verified.
