100 years ago: “Work of tearing out sidewalks has commenced in North Durango, and this means the bulk of them.”
75 years ago: An advertisement for Maxwell-Davis Furniture Co. read: “Steel Porch and garden furniture just received. You will think we stole to have such low down prices.”
50 years ago: “The temperature dropped below freezing for the first time since May 12. It was 30 degrees. On May 12 the temperature fell to 28 degrees.”
25 years ago: SILVERTON – “Bryan Miller, a Telluride resident riding for team A.C. Pinarello and in his 10th Iron Horse Bicycle Classic, won the men’s Pro/Senior I & II road race with a record-setting time of 2 hours, 3 minutes and 31 seconds. ... Lisa Brambani, a 21-year-old Great Britain native, was the winner of the women’s Pro/Senior I & II division of the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic finishing the 47-mile race in two hours, 23 minutes, 53 seconds.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
