100 years ago: “A local autoist returning from a trip to the upper Florida reports a bad culvert a half mile beyond the Cash place, a bridge in bad condition, one wheel of the machine going through the structure.”
75 years ago: “The Durango headquarters battery and combat train, first battalion, Colorado National Guard, will pull out of town on the first leg of a long trek that will end in Louisiana where the unit will join in a big concentration of U.S. armed forces for military maneuvers.”
50 years ago: “Rain showers are very likely to continue, W.W. (Billy) Davies, Durango’s veteran weather observer believes. ... Davies points out that it usually rains in Durango the last of July and the first part of August.”
25 years ago: “The Purgatory Cup mountain bike race is being billed by race organizers as the perfect dress rehearsal for the World Mountain Bike Championships. The racers in the Purgatory Cup will be using the same courses as participants in the Worlds.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
