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Ella Kinterknect talks about working as a housekeeper for Kathie and Walter Walker, about the Walkers' lives, personalities, and entertainments, and about their son Preston Walker. She also discusses her years living in Silverton and working as a housekeeper in the Grand Imperial Hotel. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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Mary Cox talks about her education at the Bryant School and elsewhere in Grand Junction, about corsets and other aspects of school fashion, the history of the Riverside Neighborhood, attending community dances and Glenwood Springs’ Strawberry Days, and boys swimming in the Colorado River. She also discusses old downtown businesses, going to movies at the Majestic Theater, a brothel that advertised at the Mesa County Fairgrounds during a baseball...