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Gladys Gross, who grew up on an apple farm at the intersection of North Avenue and 12th Street, talks about her father’s residential development of their farm land. She discusses old businesses in town, including the icehouses utilized by the railroad near Third Street and how they burned down. She also talks about the desperation and hunger of people during the Great Depression, her work with New Deal programs, the route of the Little Book Cliff...
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Elbert Miracle talks about working with the Civilian Conservation Corps crews who built Rim Rock Drive on the Colorado National Monument, and about the accident that killed nine local men, including his brother-in-law. He also talks about working on the Federal crews that built the Land’s End Observatory on the Grand Mesa. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums...