100 years ago: “Prof. Geo. F. Snyder of the Fort Lewis school, who had been visiting the Allison section on school matters, left for the Fort Lewis school this morning.”
75 years ago: “In the closest race yet run by auditions for ‘Colorado Hour’ broadcast over KOA, four people from the San Juan Basin were selected by judges to represent this community. The finalists are Frances Pingrey, soprano of Durango; Jack Hughes, banjoist of Durango; Stefan Badzioch, accordionist of Ackmen; and Oliver Lockhart, baritone of Silverton.”
50 years ago: “The distributor cap was taken out of the city street sweeper while the driver was having a meal in a downtown restaurant, Durango police reported.”
25 years ago: “Officials of the National Park Service regional office in Denver here have swept aside a report by Mesa Verde’s park archaeologist and have given the go-ahead for segments of a new Indiana Jones adventure movie to be shot inside the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings. A report by a Mesa Verde park archaeologist concluded that filming chase scenes inside the 700-year-old cliff dwellings could have an ‘adverse impact’ on the ancient mud-and-sandstone structures. The regional office rules, instead, that the filming would have ‘no effect,’ regional director Lorraine Mintzmyer said.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not have been verified.
