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87th annual celebration of the Cattlemen's Days Rodeo in Gunnison, Colorado.
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Twenty-one people were killed and thirty injured when a freight train ran into a passenger train just outside of Glenwood Springs canyon in 1909.
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A destructive tornado that went through downtown Grand Junction. It knocked down part of the YMCA building's facade, killing Alfred Gallup (The YMCA building was located between White and Rood Avenues on 5th Street).
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The fiftieth reunion event of the Fruita Union High School's graduating class of 1927 was held on June 11-12, 1977 at Hawthorn Park and other locations in Grand Junction, Colorado. During the portion of the event in Hawthorne Park, the Mesa County Oral History Project interviewed and recorded assenting attendees.
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In 1938, Greek American Patrick Levintis shot and killed Greek American Jim Patsios. Levintis, who ran a private gambling establishment above Watson’s Cigar Store in the 300 block of Main Street, had been paying police protection money to Patsios, who ran the Spanish pool hall in the 200 block of Colorado Avenue. When Levintis was arrested despite the money that he had been paying Patsios, he had Patsios brought to his gambing hall, where he was...
69) Juneteenth
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An annual holiday and celebration that takes place on June 19th. On that date in 1865, African-American slaves in Texas found out that they had been freed by the Emancipation Proclamation two years prior, and that the Civil War was over.
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First held in the Sheridan Opera House, on August 30, 1974, this was the first annual Telluride Film Festival.
From the book: Telluride in the Film Festival Galaxy, by Jeffrey Ruoff:
"Opening Night.
9pm. The stage is set, projectors ready. The organist who traveled to Telluride, Colorado, for this evening--Friday, 30 August 1974--sits waiting at his instrument. The vintage Sheridan Opera House, with 232 fixed seats, overflows with 260 audience...
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25th annual celebration of the Cattlemen's Days rodeo in Gunnison, Colorado.
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23rd annual celebration of the Cattlemen's Days rodeo in Gunnison, Colorado.
76) The World Series
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In the early Twentieth century, many towns posted scores of Major League Baseball's World Series games in downtown areas, so that citizens could keep abreast of the games as they happened. Scoreboard operators would change numbers as they received telegram or telephone notices. Later, radio broadcasts of the games were played by loudspeaker for standing crowds on the street. The Daily Sentinel newspaper posted the scores outside their building at...
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Salida held a military funeral on April 23, 1922 in honor of Ray Lines, and to honor the sacrifices of all the men and women who served in the U.S. military. It was a grand affair, complete with band, color guard, pastors and pallbearers, military veterans and enlisted men, army nurses, a firing squad, and of course, mourners. There were American flags posted everywhere. The entire town gathered at Riverside Park, then marched up to the undertaker’s...
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A livestock event and competition for youth, put on by the Agricultural Committee of the Grand Junction Chamber of Commerce, and the Mesa County chapters of 4-H and the Future Farmers of America (the Mesa County Junior Livestock Show, which is now part of the County Fair, may be the continuation of this event).
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78th annual celebration of the Cattlemen's Days Rodeo in Gunnison, Colorado.
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Shake and Mattie Gilman were a De Beque area couple who dressed like wild-west characters, raised ponies, and used to come into town to buy ice cream for the children. They enjoyed getting very drunk and shooting their guns. During one sad incident, Mattie was messing with Shake and shot her gun at him, trying to get him to climb higher up a tree. Mattie accidentally shot and killed Shake, then she went to prison for a year for her crime.
