100 years ago: “Charley Fleck, of the Savoy Hotel, left for the Lightner Creek country where his mining interests are calling louder than the trout in the mountain streams.”

75 years ago: “Durango business houses and banks will close in observance of Memorial Day, with the exception of drug stores and filling stations.”

50 years ago: The Kiva Theatre was showing “None But The Brave” starring Frank Sinatra. The billing read: “The brave are never different – only different looking. Mot pictures are rarely different but this one surely is.”

25 years ago: “Mesa Airlines will increase the number of scheduled flights into Durango from 8 to 11 flights a day. The airline will also be adding a 30-passenger airplane, with a stand-up cabin and flight attendant to the Denver route. There will be seven flights a day between Durango and Denver; the Albuquerque route will continue at four flights a day.”

Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.