100 years ago: “Merchants all over Durango report trade of all kinds better than it has been for along time in several places they got the cash register full early in the afternoon and began throwing the money in the flour barrels. Business is brisk here and times are good, and prospects are that it will remain so indefinitely in this section.”
75 years ago: “Work on the new Highway 160 bridge over the Animas River just west of Durango has been practically completed. ... Only the hanging of guard rails and painting of the steelwork remain to be done.”
50 years ago: “City council will christen the new city hall when councilmen sit officially at the new polished rostrum for the first time.”
25 years ago: “All along, it was meant to be this way. The final game of the 1988 high school football season has come down to a face-off between the state’s No. 1 and No. 2 teams, a game that is more an extension of a backyard rivalry that has been building all year rather than a contest between to unfamiliar teams.” The Durango High School Demons were to take on the Grand Junction Tigers.
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
