Lowel School (first location), Grand Junction, Colorado
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Howard Hafey talks about his career as a locomotive engineer, including descriptions of steam engines, railroad flags and signs, and a discussion of bridge building. He also talks about his early life going to school in Grand Junction, Colorado and working in a pool hall. 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 Society....
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Gilbert Limberg talks about growing up in Grand Junction, Colorado in a boarding house run by his mother, and later on a small farm on Old River Road. He also discusses his career as a boilermaker for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, his ownership of the Artesia Motel on Orchard Mesa, his work repairing machines that were used to first pave Grand Junction’s streets in 1925, and the Uintah Railway. His wife Loretta Limberg also offers her occasional...
