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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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A Depression era organization that provided clothes and toys for poor and minority children at Christmas, and meals for people in need. It was organized by Al Look, advertising agent and columnist for The Daily Sentinel newspaper and backed by Walter Walker, publisher of the Sentinel.
The group staged fundraising events at the Avalon Theater, the Mile-Away Dance Hall and other locations. Look arranged to buy gifts for children at cost by buying...
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An association of advertising people founded in 1891. It was originally known as the Colorado Ad Association. Al Look once served as the organization’s president.
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An organization founded by physicians Everett H. Munro and Herman Graves, with Al Look as their publicity person. It was a member of the Colorado Cancer Society and American Cancer Society. The society brought in the pathologist Dr. Saccomanno, who established his own laboratory at St. Mary’s Hospital, where local doctors could send biopsies to be examined. Previously, doctors had had to send biopsies to Denver for examination.
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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 of the international organization created by attorney Silmon Smith, M.N. Due, Bob Ross, and man named Jones in 1921. According to Lion Laird Smith, the club briefly disbanded when Walter Walker brought the Rotary Club to town. In 1922, the Grand Junction Lions Club reformed with Silmon Smith as president (Laird's father). According to Silmon Smith, because he and others had not been offered membership in the Rotary Club, he and other...
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A branch of a revised version of the organization that began in 1915 and grew stronger in the 1920s. The Ku Klux Klan inflamed prevailing prejudices against Catholics, Jews, Blacks and immigrants, and promised a return to "Old Time Religion" and Americanism. As Colorado was a primarily Protestant state, the Klan's influence was particularly strong here during the 1920's. The Klan had several members in positions of power, including the governor,...
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A Mesa County organization of World War I servicemen that was organized by American Legion members. According to the Daily Sentinel article "Last Squad Club honors comrades" (Gary Massaro, February 19, 1981), the Last Squad Club was founded during the Great Depression. At its founding in 1936, it numbered 169 members.
Members in the group included Roy Pardew and Jess Burrows, Glen L. Coffman, William W. De Voe, C.M. Fancher, Webb H. Fiene, J....
