Heritage Colorado
Found in 208 Collections and/or Records:
Oral History Interview with Flanders, Delton, 1975, 2006 September 18
DeSpain, Pleasant -- Arrived in Denver in 1860 from Kentucky to Illinois to Denver -- Looking for farm land . They supplied gold boom miners with supplies -- There were 5 boys, Richard (oldest), Ben, my grandfather, Jerry and Jim 1 girl Edith Arapahoe Indian Country -- They would rather trade than fight
Oral History Interview with Francisco Uviña, 1979 August 14, 2006 November 15
Born in Durango; recollections of his chilhood and youth; job experiences; came to Ciudad Juárez in 1953; worked as a bracero in Pecos and Ysleta, Texas; accident while on the job; stories told to him by his father concerning the Mexican Revolution and smallpox in Mexico.
Oral History Interview with Frank Yaklich, 1989 February 3, 2006
Oral History Interview with George and Jean Losasso and Magaret Peters, 1975 May 28, 2006 September 18
Interview with George & Jean Losasso Grandchildren of the Bowles Family and Margaret Peters, niece of Bowles . Speaks of Volunteer Fire Department;Community; streets, water maitenece, & other City jobs; Towm Marshall.
Oral history interview with Gertrude Cooper, 1986 May 15, 2006 March
Oral History Interview with Gilbert Fernandez, 1989 September 27, 2006
Oral History Interview with Glen Van Scoy, 1988 July 30, 2006 September 18
Grandson of Edward Bruce Bowles. Mother was Maria Bowles Van Scoy Glen was a member of the Home Rule Charter Convention in 1957. In 1946 Glen VanScoy was named postmaster of Westminster. He & wife were the only employees at that time; with a population of 700 they managed the office and they met the train twice a day to deliver & pickup mail. Talks of the postoffice moving, more clerks, house to house delivery began, raising the postoffice to second class then first class.
Oral History Interview with Gnos, Eunice, 1979 March 14, 2006 September 18
March 13th, 1979 Carl Jacobson interviewing Mrs. Eunice Gnos, widow of Edward, at the city Library on 76th Ave. who was active in Westminster History 1920?s ? 1930?s Looking at abstract [lots 1-4 block 111 owned by the Gnos?s now known as 8198 King Street purchased from Charles E. Horne who was the Dean of Westminster University prior to that time. Previously lived at approximately 88th & Irving Street. Ed worked at the Begole Orchards.
Oral History Interview with Green, Thomas, circa 1986, 2006 September 18
Tom Green was the president of First National Bank of Westminster, the City's oldest bank. Chairman of the Downtown Westminster Redevelopment Committee. Also served on the Westminster District 50 Chamber of Commerce
Oral History Interview with Gregorio Aldana, 1978 June 13, 2006 November 15
Recalls life as a laborer on a hacienda before the Mexican Revolution; discrimination he encounters in Kansas; the Battle of Aguascalientes; Villa, Carranza, and Madero; the Spanish Flu of 1918, the Depression; La toma de Zacatecas.
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