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40521) Jim Burleigh
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Here is an obituary from The Telluride Daily Planet, dated 9/24/22, written by Suzanne Cheavens:
"A ‘Telluride giant’ leaves his mark
Jim Burleigh’s legacy includes Lawson Hill, River Trail and more:
Lawson Hill. The River Trail. Manitou Lodge. The Columbia Hotel. The Telluride Sports building. The gondola. Pocket parks. What Jim Burleigh left in his wake defines what Telluride is today. Burleigh, who died Sept. 9 in San Diego at 77,...
40522) Land's End Hill Climb
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An automobile race that climbs up Land’s End Road on the Grand Mesa. When the race began in 1941, drivers started at the Anderson Ranch and worked their way up to the shelter house. Early participants included Louie Unser (brother of famous racers Al and Bobby Unser), who had won the Pikes Peak Race. Al Rogers, four-time winner of the Pike Peak Hill Climb, was also a frequent racer at Land's End. The race was organized by the Grand Junction Chamber...
40523) Rex Howell
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Founder of Grand Junction's first radio station, KFXJ (now KREX), in 1930. He also founded the town's first television station in 1954.
He began a radio station in the Denver Area in 1926. After visiting Grand Junction and finding it had little radio reception, he and his wife decided to move to the Grand Valley, which they did in 1930. He founded radio station KFXJ, which later became KREX. He placed the station on top of a hill in the First...
40524) Paul Strout
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He owned a clothing store on Main Street in Grand Junction, Colorado in the 1950’s under the business name Paul Strout’s Inc. He took part in the town’s Diamond Jubilee celebration of 1957, dressing up like Doc Holiday to have faux gunfights with Robert “Bob” Collins, Hank Post and others.
He left town in 1962 and sold men’s clothing as a traveling salesman until at least 1982, with a territory in the Intermountain West. He later wrote...
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The celebration of Grand Junction’s 100th anniversary. Activities began in September of 1981, corresponding with the 100-year anniversary of the settlement of the first white people in Grand Junction after the forced expulsion and resettlement of the Ute Indians from the area. Activities continued into 1982.
Such activities included the recording of several radio plays about area history for the Grand Junction Centennial Celebration Radio History...
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With Judy Anne Prosser-Armstrong and Dave Fishell, Al Look visits the Turner-Look Site in the Bookcliffs of Grand County, Utah. Look details the site’s discovery by rancher Al Turner, its exploration by Al Look and his son Al Look Jr., and excavation by archaeologist Hannah Marie Wormington of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Look discusses the vandalism that has occurred at the site, the theft of artifacts, and steps the Federal Government...
40529) Dave Fishell
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A longtime local and Colorado historian who resides in Mesa County, Colorado. At one time, he was an employee of the Daily Sentinel.
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Earl Laycock talks about running the Laycock Motor Company with his brother Austin Laycock in the 1920’s and 1930’s. He speaks about the role the Post Office played in financing car buyers when local banks closed during the Depression, and about giving driving lessons to new car owners. He describes working as a mechanic for Consolidated Steel in Long Beach during World War II, after rationing made the sale of new cars difficult. He discusses...
40531) Hannah Marie Wormington
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Head of the archeology department at the Colorado Museum of Natural History, where she worked from 1935 until 1968.
She was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. Her father was Charles Wormington, a butcher and the child of English immigrants. Her mother was Adrienne J. (Roucolle) Wormington, an immigrant from France. Her father died in 1923, when she was 9 years old, and US Census records show Hannah growing up with her mother and grandmother at...
40532) Fingerprint 28
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This piece is part of the Artist In Residence collection created in the 970West Studio. It is from the residency of Emmi Hall (January 9- April 24, 2017).
40533) Robert "Bob" Collins
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Robert “Bob” Collins was born to John A. Collins and Margaret R. (Lacy) Collins in Horse Valley, Pennsylvania. His father was a school teacher and his mother was a homemaker. The 1920 US Census shows that the family had moved Madison, Ohio by the time Bob Collins was one year old. The 1930 census shows the family living in Washington, Ohio.
He married Marcella M. Stetzel in Sandusky County, Ohio on May 28, 1939. He is shown living with Marcella...
40534) John Raymond Brumgardt
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Former director of the Museums of Western Colorado. He was born in Riverside, California and received his PhD in American History from University of California Riverside in 1974, when he was 28. He worked for several museums and public entities as director or in a historical capacity, including the Museums of Western Colorado from 1978-84. With Al Look and Robert “Bob” Collins, he served on Grand Junction’s Centennial Committee, which celebrated...
40535) "Firecracker" Frank Garrison
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An officer for the C.D. Smith Drug Company. He was also a member of the Grand Junction Lions Club. Garrison had access to fireworks through his job at C.D. Smith, and Al Look recalls that he always kept some in his pocket. At one Lions Club meeting, he lit fireworks under the chair of Dr. Everett E.H. Munro, which frightened Munro and made him angry with Garrison for years after. He eventually went into the pizza business in Denver. He returned for...
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A picture taken by Craig Muhonen of hang gliding on the valley floor, near Telluride, Colorado. The date is probably in the 1970's.
40537) Craig “Munch” Muhonen
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Here is an email from Craig Muhonen, dated 9/23/22:
"I was born October 28th, , 1946, in Gardner Mass. and spent a lot of time at my Grandfathers general store in Barnard Vt. . I came to this little town (Telluride, Colorado) on a whim, after Vietnam, in May of 1971 with my dog Munch, and the first person I met was Everett Morrow who looked this Marine Veteran and California surfer up and down, but took my money for a camp site in town park, and...
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This is a picture of a hang glider landing on main street in Telluride, Colorado. Here is a story of the history of hang gliding in Telluride, written by Craig Muhonen:
"Clint Wolf’s lumber building was the “parking” area for the TAF gliders, in the early “daze”, and as you can see by the amount of locals on main street, I mean the whole town sometimes, like bombing the avalanches, came out to watch TAF fliers and their friends.
It...
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Grace Traynor talks about her son Harold Baker Wood and his service as a Boatswain’s Mate aboard the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. She discusses her son’s death during the attack and subsequent medals he received. She speaks about the enlistment of her sons in the armed forces during the Great Depression, when jobs were scarce, and about their lives in Grand Junction as young adults. The interview was conducted...
