100 years ago: Burt Griffiths and Oren Frary returned from Denver “via the auto route” with goods purchased, including “the finest barber equipment ever seen in the West.”
75 years ago: An Oxford family announced that its horse had served them for 26 years. The three daughters of Harry Boyce were shown standing next to the then-6-year-old mare in a photograph taken 20 years before the newspaper publication date.
50 years ago: Durango firefighters were called to a vehicle fire at the junction of East Second Avenue and Sixth Street.
25 years ago: Under threat of a federal lawsuit and possible protest, Amoco Production Co. started construction on the first of five planned gas wells in the HD Mountains.
Most items in this column are taken from The Durango Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
