75 years ago: “High-ranking rodeo performers – the best in the game – will compete in the 1940 Spanish Trails Fiesta at Durango Aug. 10 and 11.”

50 years go: “The D&SNG set a new one-day record with 991 persons aboard the two sections, including the Nomad private car.”

25 years ago: “A local adolescent detention facility could be operating in Durango as soon as Oct. 1. The facility, which would be located within the Addictions Recovery Unit, would put an end to lengthy and expensive transport and return of juveniles to Grand Junction.”

Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Animas Museum and Center of Southwest Studies. Their accuracy may not be verified.