50 years ago: The new Texaco station on Seventh Street has added a new feature to its station – a Texaco man which measures 22 feet in height. According to Tor Brun Vand, station attendant, 300 of the advertising displays have been ordered by the company over the state at a cost of $2,000 per “man.”
25 years ago: Dan Noble, former majority leader in the Colorado Senate, did what historians hope all politicians would do with their political papers: He kept them. Then he donated them to an archive. Former State Sen. Noble, R-Norwood, recently donated 16 years worth of inter-office memos and volumes of published materials to the Fort Lewis College Center for Southwest Studies.
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
