100 years ago: An advertisement for the Crystal Barber Shop read: “Modern in service, thorough in sterilizing and cleanliness. All barbers, no boiler makers in the bunch. Full line of tonics, soaps, cosmetics and barbers sundries.”
75 years ago: “Residents of the 700 blocks of Eighth Avenue are complaining that their flower beds are being ruined by thoughtless, mischievous children. In spite of warnings by the justifiably irate flower owners the depredations continue, calling for sterner action.”
50 years ago: “City councilmen voted to send the State Board of Agriculture a statement for $80,000 for monies due on the sale of 128 acres of land and at the same time moved to exercise the option to purchase 55 acres of land as a partial replacement. The property which the state is in the process of purchasing takes in the Hillcrest Golf Course, subject to the golf club lease, and the Jaycee campgrounds. It will be used for future expansion of Fort Lewis College. The 37 acres which the city has the option to buy is located northeast of the golf course and will be used for a new course.”
25 years ago: “It felt like Disneyland. The band was playing, a crowd stood cheering, the train whistle filled the air. The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad’s first run of the season – and the first after the disastrous roundhouse fire Feb. 10 –was on schedule.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
