100 years ago: William Lambert of Denver was in Durango to look at the city’s “big display of electric signs.”
75 years ago: Corporal Dewey Brown stopped in Durango on his way to Fort Still, Oklahoma, where he would enter officers training for three months.
50 years ago: La Plata County commissioners were exploring ways to make up the approximately $150,000 in tax losses in the event that the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad abandoned the Alamosa-Durango narrow gauge line.
25 years ago: Someone reported to Durango Police Department that there was a bat in the lobby of The Red Lion Inn.
Most items in this column are taken from The Durango Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Accuracy of content may not be verified.
