100 years ago: “Tonight both of Durango’s picture shows give over their business to the benefit of the Telluride flood sufferers and the people of this – the biggest town in San Juan Basin – should patronize liberally and show the stuff of which they are made.”
75 years ago: “The Hollywood Creamery has had its face lifted this week. The old wood front has been stuccoed, and today workmen are applying a coat of white finishing paint.”
50 years ago: “Fiesta is the swirl of skirts and the jingle of spurs ... pickup trucks and horse trailers ... teepees at the fairgrounds and Indians cooking over breakfast fires. It’s conviviality and fatigue and excitement and hospitality ... It’s Fiesta time in Durango. Vive la Fiesta!”
25 years ago: “Construction could begin in September as the expansion of a Florida Mesa gas compression station that would be the hub of Amoco Production Co.’s coal-gas-facility operations in La Plata County. Pending county land-use approval, the facility would treat gas from 300 of the 400 wells to be drilled in the county as part of Amoco’s coal-gas project.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
