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He was born in Colorado to Margaret Look, a homemaker, and to Daily Sentinel employee and popular local figure Al Look. He grew up in Grand Junction. As a boy, he and his father took hikes in the surrounding area, and they became interested in geology, paleontology and archaeology. It was Al Jr.’s find that helped draw interest to what became the Turner-Look dig in Utah, an important Fremont Indian site. The 1920 US Census shows him working as an...
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He was born in Nebraska, and raised in Lincoln and in Stockton, Kansas. His father was Albert Look and his mother Marie Look. Both parents were the children of German immigrants. They ran a grocery store, a dry goods store, and then a creamery. While in high school, he was active in theater productions, sang bass in a local barbershop quartet, and sang in the Methodist choir. He attended the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, where he studied journalism,...
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She was born in Ohio to Thomas and Mary Langen, both the children of Irish immigrants. Her parents were farmers. She became a school teacher, and taught school in Kremling, Ignatio and Tiffany. She married Al Look, an employee of the Durango Herald and a homesteader in Dove Creek. They married on June 30, 1922. They relocated to Grand Junction in the 1920’s and lived there for many years. There, she became a homemaker and raised three children....
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The advertising manager of the Grand Junction Daily News in the early Twentieth century. He was replaced by Al Look.
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The post mistress of Gateway, Colorado. According to Al Look, she was a "tough hombre" and had nurse's training.
6) Ken Johnson
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The former owner of the Daily Sentinel newspaper. He also owned Johnson Publishing, a company that published Al Look’s book Hopi Snake Dance, among others.
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She was what Al Look called a "mighty good society reporter" for the Daily Sentinel and a good friend of Dorothy (Hiskey) Evans. Despite being diagnosed with cancer, she continued working until her death.
8) Dan Hunter
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An early Twentieth century resident of the Dove Creek, Colorado area. According to oral history interviewee Al Look, Hunter was the first teacher in the Dove Creek school, and organized the school district there. He also established the first newspaper in the area. Look wrote about Hunter in his book Unforgettable Characters of Western Colorado.
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A professor from San Diego State University who helped to excavate the Paradox dig in the Paradox Valley of Montrose County. There he, Al Look, and others discovered evidence of settlements belonging to the Fremont Culture and Basket-Maker culture.
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An educator and administrator who for several years took teachers on a summer tour of Colorado’s Western Slope. During their tours, they went to the Colorado National Monument, where Al Look talked to the teachers about the geology and history of the area. With her husband, she was a native Iowan, but versed in Colorado history.
11) Gladys Burford
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The manager of the Avalon Theater in the early to mid-Twentieth Century. Al Look described her as a very, very smart woman. She was rumored to be more than “just friends” with Walter Walker. She passed away from a car accident where she drove head on into a train, rumored to be while drinking
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He was part-founder of the Hoel Business College in Grand Junction, Colorado, which later became known as the Ross Business College. The college operated in the early Twentieth century. According to Al Look, he was a great practical joker.
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A prominent lawyer in Grand Junction. He was born in Oregon. He attended the University of Colorado school of law after briefly attending the University of Idaho. According to Al Look, he was an excellent speech maker.
*Image from the University of Colorado annual.
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A KOTO Radio DJ, since 1975, Brother Al had a regular show every Sunday. Brother Al arrived in Telluride, Colorado in 1972, and passed away, there in 2003. He was a Christian Minister. Here is his obituary, from the Telluride Watch: http://www.telluridetoday.com/watch/090503.html:
Brother Al” Johnston, local preacher, KOTO disc jockey and Free Box aficionado, died Sunday morning at the KOTO studios of a heart attack. He was 77.
KOTO Station...
15) Richard Warren
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He was the owner of a Dodge automobile dealership on Main Street in the 1920’s or 30’s, located across from The Daily Sentinel building between Sixth and Seventh Streets. According to Al Look, Advertising Manager of The Daily Sentinel, Warren had come from the East and was a little full of himself. He wanted special advertising rates from the Sentinel and grew angry when Look refused to deliver them.
16) Bill Diamond
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According to oral history interviewee William Cunningham, he was the one time owner of the Turner Ranch (his name was given to Diamond Canyon and Diamond Creek in that area). He may have built what looked like a watchtower on his land from stone. Al Look eventually excavated the site, thinking it was built by Native Americans, but uncovered no relics.
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She was born in in Champion, Nebraska to Champion Chase Davidson and Mable Elizabeth (Eskew) Davidson. She attended Champion Grade School, Alpha Rural High School, and Chase County High School, graduating in 1936. She graduated from Pratt’s Business College in 1939. She married Robert Atchison and they moved to Denver and then Grand Junction in 1945. She worked for the Daily Sentinel from 1945-1952, where she served as an assistant to Advertising...
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He was born in Arapahoe County, Colorado to Julius Johnson, a chemist by trade who became a farmer, and to Grace R. Johnson, a homemaker. Julius Jr.’s grandfather first came to Colorado in 1890.
He attended the University of Colorado (B.A.) at Boulder and the University of Illinois (PhD), where his studied chemistry and biochemistry, and participated in groundbreaking studies on amino acids.
He worked for DOW Chemical for many years in a...
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Head of the archeology department at the Colorado Museum of Natural History, where she worked from 1935 until 1968.
She was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. Her father was Charles Wormington, a butcher and the child of English immigrants. Her mother was Adrienne J. (Roucolle) Wormington, an immigrant from France. Her father died in 1923, when she was 9 years old, and US Census records show Hannah growing up with her mother and grandmother at...
20) Paul W. Breckler
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An educator and administrator who for several years took teachers on a summer tour of Colorado’s Western Slope. During their tours, they went to the Colorado National Monument, where Al Look talked to the teachers about the geology and history of the area. Along with his wife, he was a native Iowan. He taught in California from 1968 to 1971 before coming to Colorado and learning about Colorado history.
