100 years ago: “Actual operations of a process that in the treatment of sulphide, lead, copper and zinc ores will make a saving of 90 present or more, as compared with 60 percent by former methods, is promised for the near future in the Silverton district by a representative of the American Oil Flotation Company.”
75 years ago: “Lloyd Callander is quarantined at his North Durango home, one of Durango’s smallpox victims. Although seriously ill Saturday and Sunday, he was reported better yesterday.”
50 years ago: An advertisement for Woolworth’s read, “Let’s get With It with these very ‘IN’ ... ‘Spoofer’ sweatshirts. $2.99. Each saying has coordinating illustrations: ‘If No One Claims Me in 30 Days I’m Yours,’ ‘I Drink Because I’m Frustrated, Insecure, Ill at Ease, Socially Unfit and I Like Alcohol,’ ‘You’ll Find Me Listed in the Yellow Pages – Under Bar Fixtures,’ ‘The Bus Leaves at Noon – Be Under It,’ ... plus many more KOOKY SAYINGS!”
25 years ago: “A shopping center in the middle of town in exchange for a $9 million ‘pie in the sky’ fairgrounds six miles out of town – that is the deal county commissioners are negotiating with Gary Hammons, real estate developer, who wants to buy the La Plata County Fairgrounds. The new fairgrounds would be built one and a half miles west of Elmore’s Store on U.S. Highway 160 north and west on County Road 233. The 300-acre property owned by Irv Mason presently is under contract to Hammons.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
