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In the first of nine recordings, John Goulet, a former advertising salesman with the Daily Sentinel newspaper, relates his experiences and travels in Grand Junction and Western Colorado in the 1950’s. He talks about his arrival in Grand Junction from Boston, meeting H. Blake Manuel of Manuel’s Department Store, and his friendship with Al Look of the Sentinel. He describes trips that he and his wife took with Look and his wife around the Western...
82) Merle McClintok
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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.
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In the second of nine recordings, John Goulet, a former advertising salesman with the Daily Sentinel newspaper, relates his experiences and travels in Grand Junction and Western Colorado in the 1950’s and 1960’s. He talks about playing the piano and touring the Western Slope with the Star Lighters, an orchestra from Grand Junction. He plays the piano piece, “Back in Your Own Backyard” and speaks about arranging music for other performers....
84) 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.
85) Dr. Larry Leach
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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.
87) 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...
91) 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.
92) 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...
96) 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.
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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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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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Editor of the Durango Democrat newspaper. According to historian Al Look, who worked for the Durango Herald at that time, Day was hospitalized for delirium tremens. A reporter named William Wood from the Durango Herald then published an article about Rod Day and his delirium tremens, which angered Day. Soon after, he confronted Wood on the Main Street of Durango, Colorado and shot him in the back of the head. Day was tried for murder but declared...
