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44124) 4D - Dan's Dadgum Dumb Dog
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Materials: kevlar thread, moose tail hair, Sheltie fur dubbing, copper wire, goose biot, copper bead. Water Conditions: stillwater, slow moving water; submerged. Target fish: Trout, Bass, Pike, Perch, Grayling.
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Frosty Tilton describes his career as a banker in Palisade and Grand Junction, Colorado. He talks about bank closures and runs on banks during the Great Depression, the economic impact of the peach industry, and the history of local fruit grower cooperatives. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries, the Museums of Western Colorado and the Mesa County Historical Society.
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Helen and Marion Bowman discuss Marion Bowman’s father, George Bowman, founder of the Palisades National Bank, United Fruit Growers Association, and the inventor of the Fruit Gathering Bag (Bowman picking sack). They also discuss the history of fruit growing in Palisade, Colorado. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries, the Museums of Western Colorado, and the Mesa County Historical...
44127) Forrest L. "Frosty" Tilton
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Frosty Tilton was born in Des Moines, Iowa to E.L. Tilton, a farmer, and to Sarah L. (Gerard) Tilton, a homemaker. Because of a bad heart, he was unable to do farm work. His brother Archie Tilton, who had homesteaded in Eastern Colorado, contacted him regarding a position at a bank in Holyoke. So Frosty moved to Holyoke, Colorado in 1917 when he was 16 years old and began working in the bank as a janitor. On top of that, he did any other job that...
44128) Marion George Bowman
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He was born to George Wallace Bowman and Nancy “Nannie” (Cutter) Bowman in Palisade, Colorado. His dad was a fruit farmer, the inventor of the Fruit Gathering Bag (Bowman picking sack), founder of the Palisades National Bank, and founder of the United Fruit Growers Association. His mother was a homemaker. US Census records show the family living in west Palisade.
Marion married Helen Maher in Grand Junction on November 16, 1937. Like his parents,...
44129) Archie "Arch" Tilton
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He was born in Des Moines, Iowa to E.L. Tilton, a farmer, and to Sarah L. (Gerard) Tilton, a homemaker. He homesteaded near Holyoke, Colorado and then came to Palisade, Colorado sometime between 1917 and 1924. With George Bowman, he participated in the establishment of the Palisades National Bank and hired his brother, Forrest Tilton, as a cashier. He also had fruit orchards, ran a fruit association, and worked as a depot agent/station master for...
44130) Ruth Bereman (Zingg) Tilton
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She was born to Ottway C. Zingg and Bernice Kina Mowry in Holyoke, Colorado. Her father was from a Swiss-American family. He was a history professor and a band director. Her mother was a teacher and principal from Iowa. She grew up in Holyoke and in Las Vegas, New Mexico, where she attended high school. After graduating from high school around 1918, she became a teacher. She taught in country schools outside of Holyoke. She met Forrest L. “Frosty”...
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A bank that operated from roughly 1918 until 1922. At that point, its owners bought out the competing Palisades National Bank, and the two institutions merged. The name Palisades National Bank was used, and the Producers Exchange name was discontinued (information from the oral history of Luella (Muth) Morgan).
*Image of the bank courtesy of the Palisade Historical Society.
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Doug Westcott talks about his youth in Southern California, and about playing music and making records with a band called the Esquires. He describes the deep US Marine ties in his family that led, in part, to his enlistment in 1960. He recounts his experiences as a Radio Relay Electronics Technician in the 7th Communication Battalion. He remembers training in jungle warfare techniques in the Phillipines, becoming an expert, and teaching jungle warfare...
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Image of San Juan Ranger Station. The station is a white wooden building with a shingle roof. The station has a garage door to the left and a front door to the right. The station is fenced in. To the right on the fence a sign reads San Juan Station. To the right of the station two men are seen conversing. To the left large pine trees are seen. There are pine trees in the background. In the foreground there is a dirt road. In the bottom right corner...
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Ray Bernal talks about his early life in the Grand Valley and the wide variety of jobs that he held, including work as a "gandy dancer" on the railroad, mining, farming, thinning beets, janitorial work, and herding sheep. He also discusses a group breakfast he had with President Harry S. Truman, where Truman's daughter staged a musical performance. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration...
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He was born to Warren and Louise Ruth (Percell) Westcott in Mojave, California. His father was a prison road camp warden and his mother was a homemaker. He had two brothers and two sisters. When the family’s home burned down, they moved to Hollywood. They subsequently moved to Los Angeles and then to Lakewood. He attended Stephen Foster Elementary School and Roosevelt Junior High School in Lakewood. His high school years, 1956-1960, were split between...
