100 years ago: “Only six more days or less until thousands of turkeys quit eating and nine more days until winter becomes a dubante. Turkey trot and tango.”
75 years ago: The Kiva theater was showing “Broadway Musketeers” starring Ann Sheridan and Marie Wilson. The billing read: “Three main stem maidens out for no good!”
50 years ago: “Snow, beginning to fall heavily in Durango shortly after 11 o’clock this morning, was general throughout the area from Mancos north and east. ... Members of the Durango City Council were pondering plans to get the city ski area into operation if snow cover will permit skiing at the Third Avenue area.”
25 years ago: “Though it hasn’t looked like ski weather in Durango lately, the seemingly sparse snow isn’t putting a damper on two major ski areas. Wolf Creek Ski Area, which boasts the most snow in the Rocky Mountains, is open for the season and Purgatory Ski Resort will open in a limited basis.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not have been verified.
