Roads -- Design and construction
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Wyatt Wood and Al Look discuss their involvement in the construction of Rim Rock Drive on the Colorado National Monument, early scenic photography of Mesa County, early Mesa County bands and parades, and Wood’s time spent working for the Grand Junction Chamber of Commerce. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries, the Museums of Western Colorado, and the Mesa County Historical...
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Glen Brunk describes his career with the Mesa County Road Department from 1919 to 1929. He talks about the equipment that the road department used and about pouring the first asphalt in the county at the intersection of 30 and F Roads. He recalls his family’s move to De Beque in 1929, when he became an employee of the Colorado State Highway department. He remembers maintaining state roads, including the Plateau Canyon Highway from De Beque to the...
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Dick Williams talks about the games he played with children as a boy in the downtown area of Grand Junction, including hide and go seek and kick the can. He remembers playing sandlot baseball and other games in a vacant lot on 9th Street between Grand and White Avenues. He recalls swimming in ditches and canals, and ice skating in what is now Lincoln Park. He speaks about competing in athletics in high school and college, and in Pioneer Clubs, which...
