Mesa County (Colo.) -- History
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To mark the centennial celebration of the town of Grand Junction, Colorado in 1981, the Mesa County Oral History Project wrote and recorded several radio plays about local history. Beginning on September 26, 1981, local radio stations KSTR, KREX-AM, KREX-FM, and KMSA broadcast the plays. Authors of the plays used interviews recorded by the Mesa County Oral History Project as inspiration. This archival recording contains the play Rex Howell: Pioneer...
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Reford Theobold, who would go on to become mayor of Grand Junction, talks about his family’s arrival in Loma and their ownership of the Loma General Store. He recalls his career in radio and television, beginning as a broadcaster on KEXO AM and ending as a TV sports anchor for KJCT at the time of the interview. He remembers jokes that he would tell on air that poked fun at his hometown of Loma. He also describes a line of t-shirts that he made and...
