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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 Christmas Memories,...
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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 Christmas Memories,...
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An organization founded in 1895. It was a predecessor to The Twentieth Century Club and other women’s organizations. Among its accomplishments, the club organized a small subscription library in a building on Main Street where the Avalon Theater now stands. The library was established entirely with donated books. At first, the library was open only to members of the Women’s Club, but then was opened to for the use of anyone in the public “whose...
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A laundromat, reportedly one of a chain, with a location in Grand Junction in the early Twentieth century and perhaps earlier. The laundromat was operating by at least 1902, when the Grand Junction City Directory lists it as the Excelsior Steam Laundry at 618 Main Street. An advertisement for the laundrymat shows the owner to be Frank Buehring at that time. According to Dudly Mitchell, the Excelsior was later owned by George Day. The Excelsior remained...
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According to oral history interviewee Nellie (Edwards) Robbins, the Grand Junction branch of the Salvation Army was founded in 1908, and took up headquarters at 3rd Street and Colorado Avenue. The organization undertakes various fundraising efforts, such as bell ringing, in order to assist the needy. In the early Twentieth century, it also ministered to the poor with religious services, and held an "Open Air Meeting" in the downtown area on Saturday...
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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. In this recording the listener will hear the play Charlie Glass:...
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A mortuary founded by Fred C. Martin and his wife in Grand Junction, Colorado in 1917. According to oral history interviewee Ann (Reese) Stokes, Martin and his family lived in Palisade, Colorado shortly before coming to Grand Junction. In Palisade, they owned an undertaker business. They moved to Grand Junction and established Martin Mortuary shortly after. F.C. Martin passed ownership of the mortuary to his son Edward Martin and his wife, Helen...
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The Grand Junction Lions Club was chartered in October of 1921 and immediately began raising money to help out various projects and organizations for the betterment of our community, including the early Grand Junction Junior College (now Colorado Mesa University). The Grand Junction Lions Club still holds its annual Carnival and Parade (which first started in 1929) as its sole fundraiser and has given back more than $4,000,000 back to the local...
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Festivities held in 1957 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Grand Junction’s founding. It was organized by the Grand Junction Festival Company. Different events were held as part of the commemoration. In his oral history interview, radio broadcaster Robert “Bob” Collins recalls that he and three other men, including Paul Strout and Hank Vogt, dressed up like Doc Holiday and staged gunfights on Main Street against Audrey Thrailkill, Bill...
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A bank in the town of Grand Junction, Colorado. According to William McHurg Ela, whose father and grandfather Wendell Dennett Ela and Wendell Phillips Ela worked for the bank for many years in the early Twentieth century (as vice president and president, respectfully), the bank was founded by Orson Adams. E.D. Blodgett took over as the owner of the bank of Grand Junction after Orson Adams was arrested for embezzlement. A.A. Milne was also an employee...
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A local chapter, founded in 1955, of the national, Red-Cross affiliated organization. The Gray Ladies were a body of specialized volunteers for service at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction. Starting with a group of 16, they grew to include 64 active members, as of 1983. Their original tasks were to staff the information desk in the hospital lobby, aid patients, and perform other non-nursing services. They arranged flowers, delivered mail, provided...
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The Handy Chapel housed a congregation affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church when it was built in 1892. The Grand Junction Town Company formed in September 1881, shortly after the forced relocation of the Ute Indian population. As part of its platting of the city, the Town Company offered free land, on the Northeast corner of the blocks between 3rd and 7th Streets on White Avenue, to religious organizations wanting to construct churches. African-American...
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An early Twentieth century iron foundry run by a Scottish immigrant named Mr. Weir and his two sons: Maury and Phil. On South 8th Street near the current Daily Sentinel building.
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An organization of women formed to foster empowering personal and professional relationships among the women of the Grand Valley. Early members included Tina Jelinek, Julie Ancell, and Bev Cooper. The group seems to have formed around 1982. It may be an early version of the organization that became the Mesa County Women’s Network.
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A team comprised of local citizens, organized in the early 1920's. The Grand Junction town baseball team was sponsored by the Grand Junction Electric Company. Men from the town, many of them accomplished players, played for the team. S.O. Harper, who had played varsity sports with the University of California, was on the team. Fred Clyde Martin, of Martin’s Mortuary, also played. Other players included Bill Roan, Henry Hall, Frank Llewellyn, and...