100 years ago: “The dry goods and clothing dealers have always held trade for Durango and have done so by cutting profits to a very slim margin and engaged in liberal advertising.”
75 years ago: “Opportunity came knocking on the door of the Durango High School basketball team at Cortez last night, but the Demons resolutely spurned the knocker from the doorstep and proceeded to lose to the Panthers, 30-26.”
50 years ago: “Ski club members from the University of Arizona and the University of Illinois are skiing at Purgatory this week.”
25 years ago: “Snowdown is a time of lighthearted festivities, supposedly untainted by politics, but its timing this year, two weeks into a war in the Persian Gulf, posed a dilemma for the organizer of tonight’s Light Parade.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
