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A convention that was held during the month of October in Grand Junction, Colorado during the early Twentieth century. It may have begun when the Colorado Education Association Teacher's Meeting was held in Grand Junction (the first of the statewide organization's to be held there). It was continued as a locally organized event in later years.
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A long-running high school marching band competition of mostly Western Slope bands held annually in Grand Junction, Colorado. It was preceded by the Western Slope Marching Band Competition, and first organized by Wyatt Wood of the Grand Junction Chamber of Commerce. Bands marched in a parade on Main Street, and then compete in a field competition at Lincoln Park.
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89th annual celebration of the Cattlemen's Days Rodeo in Gunnison, Colorado.
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The Armistice of 1918 marked the end of World War I, with an armistice signed by the Allies and the Germans. It was not intended to be a permanent peace deal, and it was redrafted at the Treaty of Versailles, to which Germany was not invited.
November 11th became a holiday in many Allied countries, including the United States. After World War II and the Korean War the name was changed from "Armistice Day" to "Veterans Day" to honor all veterans,...
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A robbery perpetuated by the McCarty Gang.
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400 demonstrators marched into a meeting of Grand Junction’s city council and demanded that council people let them speak. According to activist Shannon Robinson, with the organization Right and Wrong that organized the march in the wake of George Floyd’s death, Right & Wrong had contacted a city councilmember and let it be known that they would be marching on the meeting. Yet several council members were surprised at the large crowd of people...
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A speech made during Barack Obama’s campaign for a second term in office.
*Photograph is the official presidential photo of Barack Obama.
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A Change We Need campaign speech made on September 15, 2008. According to oral history interviewee David Combs, the excitement in the audience was palpable.
*Image is the official presidential photograph of Barack Obama.
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Starting in 1977, Telluride has offered an annual Jazz Festival, usually held in August, each year.
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When Englewood was 50 years old in 1953, the Golden Jubilee was a cause for celebrating with a parade and the streets were painted gold. The men sported beards and people dressed in 1900's styles for the whole year. Merchants and Jubilee committee members gathered at Midnight to wash the downtown streets and sidewalks in preparation for the start of the festivities, scheduled from July 26 to August 1.
This unusual project probably brought more...
93. Snow of 1919
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A large snowfall in Mesa County, Colorado. According to game warden John Duncan Hart, the Winter of 1919-20 was hard and severe on wildlife. The harshness of the weather meant that the Department of Fish and Game had to make arrangements for the feeding of the California quail, only recently introduced to the state of Colorado. Even so, hundreds of quail died. Thanksgiving Day saw snow so deep that several trucks with chains were abandoned between...
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An annual event celebrating the strawberry harvest of Glenwood Springs, Colorado. It began in 1898, and is ongoing. According to the Glenwood Springs Visitor’s Center, it is the longest continually held civic celebration west of the Mississippi River. It began as an agricultural festival. At one time, a bicycle race between Grand Junction and Glenwood was held as part of the festival.
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A flood in the Plateau Valley area of Mesa County, Colorado.
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According to former game warden John Duncan Hart, the last grizzly bear in Mesa County was shot by a man named Sills on the Uncompahgre sometime around 1912. The bear was known as Big-foot Mary. A Daily Sentinel article from October 22, 1925 reports the incident differently. A hunter named Ed Gill shot Big Foot Mary in October of 1925, and did so in the Dominguez area. According to the Sentinel article, Mary weighed 905 pounds and had a footprint...
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In December 1938, J.W. “Big Kid” Eames, who ran a gambling establishment called the Biltmore in the Reed Building at 3rd and Main Streets, was shot and killed by three masked robbers: Fern “Bubbles” Sadler, who ran the Copeco dance hall, and his friends and business partners Tommy Humotoff and Otis Slane (According to D.A. Brockett, Sadler ran the Mile-Away Dance Hall, but Grand Junction police officer Fritz Becker, who was an assisting officer...
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An annual event held in Horsethief Canon, near Loma, Colorado, during the early Twentieth century. Fish were taken with nets spread across the Colorado River and fried for the attendees. Speeches were made. According to oral history interviewee and Loma resident Gertrude Rader, the Fish Fry became a place for “electioneering” in later years, with politicians coming to the event. This discouraged her and others from attending, and the event was...
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In the 1950s, Grand Junction was thriving due to the Uranium Boom. Growth was expected to rise, and the arrival of commercial stores and shopping malls across America kick-started this forward-thinking initiative. Alongside Joe Lacy, Dale Hollingsworth, and Leland Schmidt, a city committee created a construction redesign for Main Street. Strides to make the area safe for pedestrians, as well as planning for parades, led to the winding path the street...
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Rod Day was the one-time editor of the Durango Democrat, a morning daily (published 1899-1928). According to Al Look, who worked for the rival Durango Herald at that time, Day had been hospitalized for delirium tremens. The publisher of the Herald, McDevitt, instructed his staff and editor, a William Wood, not to write about Day's condition.
Wood disregarded this instruction, and published an editorial exposing Day's hospital stay. Unbeknownst...