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Bob Swinehart is interviewed about his experiences growing up in Steamboat Springs and the red-light district across the Yampa River, known as Brooklyn.
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During a speech to the Fruitvale Lions Club of Mesa County, Colorado, Al Look discourses on all manner of subjects related to Colorado History, including the geologic history of the Grand Mesa and Grand Valley, the lack of rat species native to Western Colorado and Eastern Utah, Ute and American Indian History, and dinosaurs. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County...
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Stephen Johnson talks about his education and background as a horticulturalist, and opening Johnson’s House of Flowers in Montrose, Colorado in 1919. He speaks about moving to Grand Junction, where he opened a florist business of the same name in 1937. He describes his love of practical jokes, shopping with his sons for school clothes on Main Street, and the different businesses there. He talks about his son Bob Johnson, his friendship with Al Look...
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Will Watts talks about coming to Colorado in a covered wagon in the 1890’s, growing up in Delta and Telluride, and running away from home at the age of thirteen to work various labor jobs in the Olathe area. Edith Watts speaks about growing up on a homestead north of Olathe, encounters with Ute Indians, her schooling at the Number 8 School on Ash Mesa, and her work caring for children, sewing, and tailoring. She and Will remember life in Telluride,...
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In the first of nine recordings, John Goulet, a former advertising salesman with the Daily Sentinel newspaper, relates his experiences and travels in Grand Junction and Western Colorado in the 1950’s. He talks about his arrival in Grand Junction from Boston, meeting H. Blake Manuel of Manuel’s Department Store, and his friendship with Al Look of the Sentinel. He describes trips that he and his wife took with Look and his wife around the Western...
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In the second of nine recordings, John Goulet, a former advertising salesman with the Daily Sentinel newspaper, relates his experiences and travels in Grand Junction and Western Colorado in the 1950’s and 1960’s. He talks about playing the piano and touring the Western Slope with the Star Lighters, an orchestra from Grand Junction. He plays the piano piece, “Back in Your Own Backyard” and speaks about arranging music for other performers....
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Walter Flasche talks about his birth in Nebraska and moving to De Beque, Colorado with his parents via covered wagon around 1908. He remembers life in the Roan Creek area, severe drought and heavy snows. He recalls battles between cattle ranchers and sheep ranchers in the area. He speaks about his work as a logger and his work in the nascent oil shale industry. He describes how hard the life of a rancher and oil shale worker was, and how his wife...
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Russell Johnson, a native of Grand Junction, Colorado, talks about his early life in town. He speaks about his long career working for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad as a carman. He recalls the Grand Junction depot fire that was caused when munitions, headed for use in World War II, exploded on the tracks. He discusses his father’s career on the railroad, working on narrow gauge trains and helping to build the Colorado Midland Railway. He remember...
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Cora Henry talks about her childhood in Loma, Colorado, her adoption by David and Elizabeth Brumbaugh, the hotel and grocery store the Brumbaughs ran in Loma in the 1910’s, and the grocery store they ran in Fruita from 1919 to 1940. She speaks about two large agricultural enterprises near Loma: The Golden Hills Ranch, owned by Verner Z. Reed, and Garmesa, owned by Quaker Oats. She and Paul Henry recall a fire that destroyed the original Brumbaugh...