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1) Al Look Day
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A holiday on June 16, 1972 named for Al Look by the city of Grand Junction.
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Sometime in the 1930’s, a monkey named Betty escaped from the Lincoln Park Zoo. The Lincoln Park Zoo was a small zoo that was located in Grand Junction’s Lincoln Park in the early and mid-Twentieth century. According to William "Bill" Ela, who grew up to become a Mesa County District Court judge, the animal had escaped two times before. The zookeeper had been able to catch her and return her to her enclosure both times. After her third escape,...
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For Love of a Navajo was a silent film that was most probably made sometime in 1922, and released in that year or in 1923. In his book New Mexico Filmmaking, Jeff Berg says that the movie was filmed by the Durango Film Company or the Navajo Film Company at that time, and cites articles from the Farmington Times-Rustler that mention the filming of the movie in their community.
In his Eleventh interview with the Mesa County Oral History Project,...
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Rod Day was the one-time editor of the Durango Democrat, a morning daily (published 1899-1928). According to Al Look, who worked for the rival Durango Herald at that time, Day had been hospitalized for delirium tremens. The publisher of the Herald, McDevitt, instructed his staff and editor, a William Wood, not to write about Day's condition.
Wood disregarded this instruction, and published an editorial exposing Day's hospital stay. Unbeknownst...
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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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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...
