100 years ago: “Carpenters are busy putting in the counters and shelves in the Aspaas Store building and others are doing the inside finishing upstairs. The building will cost $10,000 before it is ready to move into, says Mr. Aspaas.” – Ignacio Chieftian
75 years ago: “A number of people stood on the street and watched workmen remove the keystone in a building front. The onlookers expected the whole structure to crumble but they were disappointed. Many a discouraged man might take a lesson from that incident and realize that whole life is not necessarily ruined just because an essential part is gone.”
50 years ago: The Kiva theater was showing Walt Disney’s “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” starring Kirk Douglas and James Mason. The billing read “The mightiest motion picture of them all.”
25 years ago: “Durango’s Halloween celebration, haunted by violent episodes in the past, may be on the line. Events will start earlier and end earlier, an attempt to clear downtown of as many people as possible before trouble can brew.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not have been verified.
