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201) The World Series
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In the early Twentieth century, many towns posted scores of Major League Baseball's World Series games in downtown areas, so that citizens could keep abreast of the games as they happened. Scoreboard operators would change numbers as they received telegram or telephone notices. Later, radio broadcasts of the games were played by loudspeaker for standing crowds on the street. The Daily Sentinel newspaper posted the scores outside their building at...
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Sometime in the 1930’s, a monkey named Betty escaped from the Lincoln Park Zoo. The Lincoln Park Zoo was a small zoo that was located in Grand Junction’s Lincoln Park in the early and mid-Twentieth century. According to William "Bill" Ela, who grew up to become a Mesa County District Court judge, the animal had escaped two times before. The zookeeper had been able to catch her and return her to her enclosure both times. After her third escape,...
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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...
205) Town of Mesa rodeo
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A rodeo organized in part by cowboy and rancher Walter Richard “Dick” Lloyd. It took place in Mesa and attracted competition from nearby areas. According to Lloyd, the rodeo offered no prize money, but organizations such as the Denver Livestock Commission Company would donate bridles and other prizes. Lloyd often won the roping challenge, while his wife Bertha, a great horseback rider, often won the cowgirl award.
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A Denver and Rio Grande passenger train derailment, described by Mesa County Oral History Project interviewee Dudley Mitchell, that resulted in death and injury to several passengers and crew. The following is a description of the accident and subsequent investigation by the United States Interstate Commerce Commission. Bureau of Safety as published in the Summary of Accident Investigation Reports:
"Derailment of a passenger train near Grassy,...
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A strike of the Typographical Union protesting the lack of a signed contract with The Daily Sentinel newspaper. The strike was not concerned with wages. Rather, the Union insisted that The Daily Sentinel agree to union control of the Composing Room, following what some who worked there saw as meddling from publisher Preston Walker and the Advertising Department of the newspaper. According to Mesa County Oral History Project interviewee Robert Eugene...
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WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca (previously known as Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca and Laguna Seca Raceway) is a paved road racing track in central California used for both auto racing and motorcycle racing, built in 1957 near both Salinas and Monterey, California, United States.
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On July 30, 1921, at around 5 p.m., seven men were killed and three were seriously injured in Wheeler Gulch, five miles north of Parachute, Colorado, when a tramway cable slipped loose at the Schuyler-Doyle Shale Company mine. Twelve passengers had boarded the car, the majority of whom had just started working for the mine that very morning. As the car started down the slope, the cable became dislodged from the post it was anchored to, launching the...
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According to Gertrude Rader, who grew up in Whitewater and lived there at the time, a major conflict between sheep ranchers and cattle ranchers broke out during the years of 1906 and 1907. While no one was certain how many mend died during the conflict, Rader asserts that several disappeared. Cattlemen dynamited sheet herds and drove them over cliffs of the Gunnison. Both sheep and cattle were poisoned. Sheep herders would often give lambs to small...
