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An organization established by Loyd Files, Bill Eberhart, and Tom Wilson. The group sold Piper airplanes. Around this same time, Files built a small hangar and runway on land he had acquired along 28 Road between Grand Avenue and North Avenue. The organization later operated at Walker Field, where they sold planes and had a flying school.
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An orchestra, based in Grand Junction, that played shows in town and around the Western Slope. John Goulet played piano for the orchestra in the 1960’s, and reports that they toured surrounding towns in 1966, including towns in Eagle County. People in the audience would dance to their music.
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According to the website of the Palisade Irrigation District, it was established by a vote of the people of Palisade in 1904. The District takes water from the Colorado River via the Cameo Roller Dam and delivers it via the Price Ditch. According to William Lorenzen, editor of the Palisade Tribune newspaper from 1953 to 1979, the District ran afoul of local citizens after getting a rate hike approved by state officials without running it by Palisade...
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A fruit grower’s cooperative run by Harry Younger. It may have been a division of the Grand Junction Fruit Growers Association. In his interview with the Mesa County Oral History Project, Thomas Charles refers to the organization as the Palisade Fruit Exchange.
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A nonprofit founded in 1960 to promote independence and a high standard of living for the elderly. The organization was founded by Loyd Files, Allen Lawson, Charlie Piccone, Art Gilbert, Tom Elber (a lawyer), and Robert Hightower (an architect). According to Files, Lawson was the main force behind the organization's mission.
The first living units, the Monterey Park Apartments, were erected in 1965 at 999 Bookcliff Avenue in Grand Junction. By...
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A traveling company labeled as "The Greatest Show on Earth". It started in 1919 when Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth, a circus owned by P. T. Barnum and James Anthony Bailey, merged with the Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows. After 146 years of shows, the circus ended in 2017.
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According to Edith (Burns) Strain, the church was founded as the Methodist Episcopal Church at Clifton (of which Strain was a member). The church was organized in 1906 and the first church building was constructed at 4th Street and Grand Avenue in Clifton in 1907. The church was dedicated by Methodist preacher and governor Henry A. Buchtel.
Because the foundation of the original church building was sinking, a new building was constructed and dedicated...
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The club was organized in 1939 out of a feeling, said founding member Oscar Jaynes, “that the community needed somebody to help with community projects.”
After a Mrs. Babock perished in a house fire in February 1941, the club decided to advocate for the creation of fire protection district. They sponsored the founding of the Clifton Volunteer Fire Department by collecting items for a rummage sale, raising $300.
In the 1960’s, they provided...
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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 cooperative organized by local fruit growers in Mesa County, Colorado in 1893. It was managed by John Moore, a farmer, for several years. According to attorney Silmon (Laird) Smith, whose father Frank Smith was an early fruit grower in Mesa County, the association formed when it was found that “commission men” in Denver were misrepresenting the quality of Grand Junction’s fruit when it arrived in Denver. The Denver commission said that the...
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A law firm begun by lawyer C.L. Watson and one-time attorney general Benjamin “Ben” Griffith in the late 1800’s or early 1900’s, and the oldest continually practicing law firm in Grand Junction. The firm was originally called Griffith and Watson.
Silmon Smith joined the firm shortly after receiving his law degree from the University of Denver in 1912. Smith became one of the most knowledgeable and foremost water law attorneys in the country...
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According to Luisa (Durante) Landini, who brought milk to be processed there from her dairy farm, the creamery was run by a man named Arbuckle in the 1920's and perhaps before.
