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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 On the Road to Grand...
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During a panel discussion of the Mesa County Historical Society, Kenneth Baird discusses the settlement and incorporation of Grand Junction, the creation of the Grand Junction Town Company, early city government, town building, and early municipal ordinances. Professor Don Mackendrick talks about James W. Bucklin’s draft of a new city charter in 1910, which established a commission form of government. He mentions progressive reforms that put the...
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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 When the Armistice...
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A destructive tornado that went through downtown Grand Junction. It knocked down part of the YMCA building's facade, killing Alfred Gallup (The YMCA building was located between White and Rood Avenues on 5th Street).
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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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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 Glimpses of Old Grand...
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An organization that advocates for Grand Junction businesses and for the business climate in town. It has its roots in the early Twentieth century. It operates today at 360 Grand Avenue, in a building that opened in 1982. According to Penelope (Brown) Eberhart, whose father Harry Lewis Brown was involved in the Western Slope's early oil shale industry, the Chamber had an ongoing interest in the industry's success.
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Grand Junction's first radio station, begun by Rex Howell in 1930 as KFXJ. It carried live acts, music, and news gathered from wire services like Trans-Radio Press. Dr. O.M. Morrison, a local dentist, stepped in with funds for Howell when the station faced financial problems during the Great Depression. In 1940, after securing broadcast through new telephone lines wired by the Mountain Telephone and Telegraph Company, the station joined the...
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Faquawah was a group of Grand Junction, Colorado business men who enjoyed camping in Southeastern Utah, near Canyonlands and Lake Powell. They traveled by automobile and spent a week camping. Membership required a ritual. According to member Al Look, the word Faquawah is derived from two Native American words (he does not specify from which Native American language the words come, and he may be speaking tongue in cheek). “Fa” means “three sleeps”...
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Our 970West Studio visited TEDxGrandJunction the weekend of March 8, 2020. Check out our interviews with inspirational speakers and enthusiastic attendees alike! The 2020 Census is now live! Colorado will gain $2,300 in federal funding for each individual who completes the census, so visit 2020census.gov and get to censusing!
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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 Aces and Eights, which...
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A car dealership in Grand Junction during the 1920's.
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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 radio plays used interviews recorded by the Mesa County Oral History Project as inspiration. In this recording the listener will hear the play, The...
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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 Love Object: The Early...
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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 Our Churches. This...
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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 A Natural Resource:...
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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 radio plays used interviews recorded by the Mesa County Oral History Project as inspiration. This archival recording contains the play Cattle and Sheep...
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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. The plays’ authors used interviews recorded by the Mesa County Oral History Project as inspiration. This archival recording contains the play Campfire Tales: Hunting...
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A district that began in 1883, shortly after the formation of Mesa County from territory that had previously belonged to Gunnison County. Previous to the official creation of the district, the first school board was elected on June 1, 1882, before the Grand Junction City Government had even been elected. Harrison Edward Stroud, W.M. McKelvey, and O.D. Russell were members of the first board. Stroud served as the superintendent of schools (1881). The...
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Local artist and former director of the Art Center of Western Colorado Dave Davis talks about his beginnings as an artist and his move to Grand Junction, Colorado from Boulder. He speaks about his role in creating Art on the Corner, Grand Junction’s outdoor sculpture exhibit, in 1984. He discusses his directorship of the Art Center, which began in 1986, and his role in helping the organization gain financial solvency and regain regional relevance...