100 years ago: Fred Mayn sold his Ford to Ferg Graham, who planned to “make a truck out of it for use at the Graham Hardware.”
75 years ago: Twenty-one members of Trail Riders of America arrived in Durango to start a 10-day trek through the San Juans.
50 years ago: Mesa Verde National Park had 107,377 visitors during July, which was about 5,000 more than July’s visitor count the previous year.
25 years ago: A man reported to police that his brother was drunk and needed to be removed from his apartment in the 500 block of East Seventh Avenue. Police determined that the two brothers were roommates and, before the police arrived at the apartment, the mother of the two brothers called to request that the first brother be removed from the property because he was also drunk.
Most items in this column are taken from The Durango Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
