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A Grand Junction High School organization for girls founded in 1920. It was advised by Josephine Biggs, former secretary for the Young Women’s Christian Association, and came out of Biggs’s efforts to begin a YWCA chapter in Grand Junction. Founding members included the Pollard twins, the Hotchkiss twins, and Buffy Copeland.
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A pesticide company that produced lead arsenate spray. They had a plant in Grand Junction, Colorado and a branch in Tacoma, Washington. Arsenate of lead became popular in the 1930s and was later followed by oil-based sprays, DDT, and the like. With the introduction of the new sprays, the Grand Junction, Colorado plant closed down.
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A paving contractor hired to pave Grand Junction’s streets for the first time in 1925. Gilbert Limberg worked fixing their machines.
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According to oral history interviewee Albert Phillips Jr., the Pacific Fruit Growers was a privately-owned organization that marketed fruit from the Grand Junction area. It dissolved around 1961.
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A group of artists that began meeting following the disbandment of the Beaux Arts Club during the Great Depression. Alfred Nestler was among their members. It may have been a forerunner of Grand Junction's Art Center.
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A Grand Junction newspaper founded by Dan Thornton, Grover Sanders, Alan Leperdink, Loyd Files, and Lyle Mariner in the 1940’s. It provided competition to The Daily Sentinel for a short time before folding.
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The Light and Power Company provided electricity to the Grand Valley in the early Twentieth Century. It also owned and operated the Grand Junction and Grand River Valley Railway Company, which ran the Interurban line between Fruita and Grand Junction, Colorado. The Light and Power Company was later purchased by the Public Service Company of Colorado. The Public Service Company was in turn a founding partner of Xcel Energy.
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A law firm in Grand Junction in the early 1900’s. After Lee Watson was killed in an automobile accident, Silmon L. Smith was made a partner, and it became Griffith and Smith. The firm later added Henry Tupper, and became Tupper and Smith.
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An organization of business owners located along North Avenue in Grand Junction. It advocated for the vitalization of the area. It was active in the early 1980’s and possibly before. An organization of the same name was active in the mid-2010’s, but it is unknown whether it was the same organization as the former.
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An orchestra, based in Grand Junction, that played shows in town and around the Western Slope. John Goulet played piano for the orchestra in the 1960’s, and reports that they toured surrounding towns in 1966, including towns in Eagle County. People in the audience would dance to their music.
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A canning company located in Grand Junction, Colorado in the early Twentieth century. According to Cordelia (Hamilton) Files, the Kuner factory suffered a fire in the 1940's and was forced to sell it's surviving stock as salvage. Files' husband Loyd Files bought the stock through his company Files Brother Wrecking Yard.
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Colorado Mesa University was founded in Grand Junction, Colorado in 1925. It began as Grand Junction Junior College and was established with the support of Colorado State Representatives Sterling Lacy and Ollie Bannister, who worked with representatives from Trinidad and Pueblo to secure colleges for all three areas.
During its first years of existence as Grand Junction Junior College, classes were taught in the old Lowell School, which had been...
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The congregation began very informally in 1950 when three Jewish families (all by the last name of Travis) moved to the area from Tulsa, OK. Being used to the regular Jewish services held in Oklahoma, they got the other local Jewish families together and began organizing regular services in Grand Junction. In the absence of a Rabbi (or even assistant Rabbi), all services, holy day celebrations, and Seders were organized by members of the eight-ten...
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The Grand Junction News first reported a Catholic mass in its June 16, 1883 edition. The Right Rev. Bishop Joseph Projectus Machebeuf, first Bishop of Denver, held Roman Catholic services at J.H. Repelyea's building on Colorado Avenue between Fifth and Sixth Streets. Masses were also held at McClure’s Hall before the construction of a church.
The July 28, 1883 edition of the newspaper reported that Father R.T. Servant planned the construction...
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A flying school begun by Eddie Drapela in the 1930's. Drapela came to Grand Junction with a Curtiss-Robin plane in 1936 and was convinced to stay by Tom Clark. Drapela formed a flying school and taught Clark and others how to fly. He sold his school to Jim Rigg Jr. in 1947. Rigg operated the flying school until 1952, when he went to medical school. He liquidated the business in 1954.
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The first Christian Science church in Grand Junction, Colorado was founded by Susan Etta (Lewis) Carpenter in the late Nineteenth or early Twentieth century. Originally called Carpenter Hall, it was initially located on North First Street. The church then moved to 535 N 7th Street, a building they occupied for many years before selling it in the 2010's.
The church maintained a reading room at 113 N 6th Street in the 2000's before moving both the...
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A trucking line that was owned by Robert Colman during the 1930’s and possibly later. It’s garage was located on Colorado Avenue in what had been the Peerless Garage. Homer Colman, younger brother of Robert, reports in his oral history interview that the company hauled general freight. They ran from Denver to Grand Junction and stopped at small towns in between.
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One of Grand Junction’s first churches. It’s first location was on the northeast corner of White Avenue and 4th Street. White Hall, a prominent local building, hosted the Presbyterian Church for many years at that location. It burned and was ultimately demolished in 2015. The church now resides at 3940 27 ½ Road.
Reverend Herbert Hezlep was the presiding minister at the church from December 1914 until June 1, 1919.
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A women’s club begun by Harriette (Dyke) Ottman, who had moved to the Pomona area from the Midwest by 1900. According to Lucy (Ferril) Ela, the club began around 1901, and was a women’s organization, one of Grand Junction’s first. It disbanded after a short time and several members later became members of the Reviewers Club.
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According to the company’s website, they have been a Ford dealer in the Grand Valley since 1912. Originally, they were located on Grand Junction’s Main Street. James Fuoco, who started the long-running Fuoco Motors, cut his teeth as a mechanic at what was then called Western Ford before buying his own company. Thomas Campbell, a local orchardist and Ross Business College graduate, worked as a bookkeeper for the company.
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