And The West is History

The caption for this March 2, 1966, photo read: “At times this morning it was still and fairly bright. At other times, visibility was a hundred yards or less. In this photo taken on Main Avenue looking north, the City Market sign and city snowloaders are all but obscured by the heavy fall. The snow loading is going on right behind the approaching automobile with headlights on. The snowfall was general throughout the area, and amounted to at least eight inches in downtown Durango.”

Durango Herald file photo

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The caption for this March 2, 1966, photo read: “At times this morning it was still and fairly bright. At other times, visibility was a hundred yards or less. In this photo taken on Main Avenue looking north, the City Market sign and city snowloaders are all but obscured by the heavy fall. The snow loading is going on right behind the approaching automobile with headlights on. The snowfall was general throughout the area, and amounted to at least eight inches in downtown Durango.”

Durango Herald file photo

100 years ago: “The Durango Exchange has launched a nationwide campaign to secure the passage of the San Juan Railway bill by Congress.”

75 years ago: “A lady deer with a hankering for city ways came to Durango this morning and accompanied by a retinue of dogs loped south down the parking in the middle of Third Avenue as far as 10th street, where the doe turned down toward the city hall.”

50 years ago: “March roared in like a lion in the mountains of Colorado and the storm was expected to spread to the rest of the state by nightfall.”

25 years ago: “The Durango Lift public bus service faces cutbacks, even extinction, unless the City Council can find new revenues for the long haul.”

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