By Forrest Stone
Herald Staff Writer
100 years ago: Ralph Linton of Chicago “was wandering up and down the main drag trying to count the number of cracks in the city’s cement sidewalks.”
75 years ago: A Center, Colo., man and a Durango girl were in a tragic car wreck near Cascade. They were driving in a car, which lost control and overturned, instantly killing the man and seriously injuring the girl, who suffered a crushed skull and broken neck.
50 years ago: Army Staff Sargent Francis A. Manzawares of Durango was assigned to the Fourth Artillery in Vietnam.
25 years ago: Someone reported two men fighting in a car in the west 200 block of Seventh Street. Police discovered it was a man trying to convince his drunken brother not to drive his car.
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.
