100 year ago: “Advices state that R. E. Sloan is showing marked improvement materially benefited by his visit to Hot Springs.”
75 years ago: “Yesterday’s terrific dust and wind storm did extensive damage throughout the San Juan Basin, crippling communication lines and making life miserable for the area’s residents, unused to such miserable weather. Measuring instruments at the weather bureau sub-station in Durango measure the wind at the height of one gust as blowing at a 40-mile-per-hour clip.”
50 years ago: “An agreement between the city of Durango and the State Department of Highways was approved by the city council calling for three traffic lights on Main Avenue, a pedestrian light south of 25th Street and traffic lights at 22nd Street and 17th Street. ... Councilmen also agreed to ask the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad to remove the spur track which now serves Herb Williams Lumber Co. and terminate the track at the south edge of Eighth Street. If the railroad complies with the request, the council instructed the city manager to proceed with work on opening Eighth Street from Narrow Gauge Avenue to the truck by-pass.”
25 years ago: The Gaslight Twin, 102 Fifth St., was showing “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.” The billing read: “Have the adventure of your life keeping up with the Joneses.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
