100 years ago: “Black leg is slightly affecting stock down the Animas. All stock is being vaccinated. Some, a second time. Those that died were overfed with meal cakes, it is believed.”
75 years ago: An advertisement for Gordon’s store read: “Easter fashions. Dresses. Gloriously new. $9.90. Yield to the charm of these new Easter dress fashions, and you’ll be smartly dressed. Lot of black with sugar-white trimmings become almost everyone.”
50 years ago: The Rocket, 3 miles south on U.S. Highway 550/160, was showing “Wild and Wonderful” starring Tony Curtis and Christine Kaufmann. The cost for admission was 65 cents.
25 years ago: “The 10-month resort vacation of a maverick steer ended when the Purgatory Ski Patrol hog-tied the yearling at the edge of a ski run and hauled him down the mountain on a rescue toboggan. ... Four patrolmen on skis chased the stranded steer back and forth six miles before Ivan Unkovskoy, a city boy from Chicago, caught him by his tail. ... The saga began in the fall when the steer extended his grazing vacation that started in June with a herd belonging to Ignacio rancher Hal Anderson in Hermosa Park north of the ski area.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Animas Museum and Center of Southwest Studies. Their accuracy may not be verified.
