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Glen Brunk describes his career with the Mesa County Road Department from 1919 to 1929. He talks about the equipment that the road department used and about pouring the first asphalt in the county at the intersection of 30 and F Roads. He recalls his family’s move to De Beque in 1929, when he became an employee of the Colorado State Highway department. He remembers maintaining state roads, including the Plateau Canyon Highway from De Beque to the...
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Mary Cox talks about her education at the Bryant School and elsewhere in Grand Junction, about corsets and other aspects of school fashion, the history of the Riverside Neighborhood, attending community dances and Glenwood Springs’ Strawberry Days, and boys swimming in the Colorado River. She also discusses old downtown businesses, going to movies at the Majestic Theater, a brothel that advertised at the Mesa County Fairgrounds during a baseball...