This picture appeared in the Dec. 26, 1963, edition of the Herald. The caption read: “One of the oldest landmarks in Durango will soon be nothing more than a pile of rubble. This morning a demolition crew started tearing down the oldest municipal building in Durango, the old city hall. Built in 1889 the vintage structure boasts a history dating from the colorful days of the narrow gauge empire at its peak.”
This picture appeared in the Dec. 26, 1963, edition of the Herald. The caption read: “One of the oldest landmarks in Durango will soon be nothing more than a pile of rubble. This morning a demolition crew started tearing down the oldest municipal building in Durango, the old city hall. Built in 1889 the vintage structure boasts a history dating from the colorful days of the narrow gauge empire at its peak.”Durango Herald file photo

75 years ago: “The Hollywood Creamery has had its face lifted this week. The old wood front has been stuccoed, and today workmen are applying a coat of white finishing paint.”

50 years ago: “Fiesta is the swirl of skirts and the jingle of spurs … pickup trucks and horse trailers … teepees at the fairgrounds and Indians cooking over breakfast fires. It’s conviviality and fatigue and excitement and hospitality … It’s Fiesta time in Durango. Vive la Fiesta!”

25 years ago: “Construction could begin in September as the expansion of a Florida Mesa gas compression station that would be the hub of Amoco Production Co.’s coal-gas-facility operations in La Plata County. Pending county land-use approval, the facility would treat gas from 300 of the 400 wells to be drilled in the county as part of Amoco’s coal-gas project.”

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