100 year ago: “Louis Rudolph, of the Lucky Four Gold Mining Company, came in from the La Platas on a business trip and to get his pants pressed. Louis is tanned like a moose hide as a result of his recent visit at the mine.”
75 years ago: “M.G. Williamson, secretary of the Durango Chamber of Commerce, returned from Grand Junction, where he has been successful in his mission as a delegate to secure designation of the Durango-Ouray part of Highway 550 as the connecting link in the Canada-Mexico international highway.”
50 years ago: “Think you taste and smell a little more chlorine than usual in your water recently? It’s possible. Al Patscheck, city water superintendent, explains that chlorine is heavier than water and will settle in dead-end lines. When the demand for water increases – as it is beginning to increase now with Durangoans starting to irrigate, the chlorine comes to the top and goes out in the water.”
25 years ago: The Durango Lively Arts Company was presenting “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” a musical by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
