100 years ago: “Traveling engineer James W. Hopper was an arrival coming over to see that the boys don’t use too much coal or toot their whistles when they should open their throttles.”
75 years ago: “Because the Herald-Democrat observes Labor Day as a holiday which is dedicated to the workers of the nation, there will be no Monday issue of the paper.”
50 years ago: Telluride – “A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture company will visit this old mining camp for a three-day shooting schedule on the movie ‘The Unsinkable Molly Brown.’ Debbie Reynolds is in the starring role of the story about an early-day Colorado miner and his wife who struck it rich in silver.”
25 years ago: “A B-17G World War II bomber, Texas Raiders, will be on display at the Durango-La Plata County Airport as it makes a stopover between airshows in Utah and New Mexico. The B-17G, one of only a half-dozen or so now flying, is owned and operated by the Gulf Coast Wing of the Confederate Air Force.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not have been verified.
