100 years ago: “Tomorrow the school bells will ring and the lads and lassies will try to get their faces clean and find the school books they hid in the clothes closet last spring. All the schools open the 30th. The county schools generally open Sept. 6.”
75 years ago: “The trial of the suit of Clifford Brice against the city of Durango for heavy damages and to force the city to issue him a building permit for a filling station at the corner of Third Avenue and Sixth Street, has been postponed.”
50 years ago: “On Aug. 30 three Shindig Go-Go girls and their band, the Decades, will import pandemonium in Durango. Having just completed a tour with the Kinks and Herman’s Hermits, the group is passing through southwestern Colorado on its way back to California. Gyrations will commence at 8 p.m.”
25 years ago: “Durango officials have a hunch why preliminary census figures show the city’s population decreased by 2,305 in the last 10 years. The U.S. Census Bureau released the figures to the city before it had completed the count. ... The count released to the city for comments does not include figures for 48 ‘census blocks,’ population areas that include, among other areas, Hillcrest Estates and Florida Road.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
