Genealogy and local history
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Carl Dewey talks about his years working for the C.D. Smith Drug Company, the most prominent drugstore and wholesale druggist in Grand Junction, Colorado and throughout Mesa County for much of the Twentieth century. He speaks about the drug business and the company’s role in liquor sales both before and after Prohibition. He discusses the company’s shift from a retail organization to a retail/wholesale organization, and their laboratory work on...
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Homer Colman talks about his family genealogy and his family’s history on the Western Slope of Colorado. He clarifies aspects of his earlier 1982 interview with the Mesa County Oral History Project, including his survival of near starvation conditions in Bataan, what he perceives as the failures of the US military’s War Plan Orange, his criticism of General Douglas MacArthur, the bombing of US military installations in the Philippines that followed...
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Ruth Tilton talks about her involvement in Tri-M, the Girl Scouts, a bridge club, and other clubs and societies upon moving to Palisade, Colorado. She speaks about skiing on the Grand Mesa with her husband Forrest Tilton in the 1930’s, and about skiing near Leadville. She discusses the history of the Palisade Public Library from its humble beginnings inside of a downtown store, and her involvement in recording and preserving Palisade’s local history....
