Organizations
Collection for organization entities.
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- Last Squad Club (Mesa County, Colorado)
- A Mesa County organization of World War I servicemen that was organized by American Legion members. According to the Daily Sentinel article "Last Squad Club honors comrades" (Gary Massaro, February 19, 1981), the Last Squad Club was founded during the Great Depression. At its founding in 1936, it numbered 169 members. Members in the group included Roy Pardew and Jess Burrows, Glen L. Coffman, William W. De Voe, C.M. Fancher, Webb H. Fiene, J. Lewis Ford, C.P. Fugate, K.M. Jorgensen, Neil E. Jorgensen, L.H. Vance, and Francis Stringer (see the names of other members in the Related People field below). The group met every February on the third Wednesday of the month. The club vowed that when there were only eight surviving members, it would open bottles of whiskey and cognac, stored in a glass case, and drink a toast to all of their departed friends. The group held its last memorial dinner on February 17, 1988.
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- Laycock Motor Company (Grand Junction, Colorado)
- The Laycock Motor Company was an automobile dealership begun as Laycock and Keppler by Austin Wilbur Laycock, a mechanic, and a man named Keppler in Delta, Colorado. According to Lowell Laycock, Austin’s son and eventual employee, the dealership sold Star and Durant automobiles beginning in 1917. Star and Durant, however, did not start producing cars until 1921, indicating that the dealership may have sold a different make of automobile at first. Austin's younger brother Earl Laycock joined the business in 1918. The dealership moved to Grand Junction in 1924, where it occupied a garage purchased from a Mr. Moyer at 7th Street and Rood Avenue. By 1928, the dealership had been moved to 530 Colorado Avenue, then to 451-463 Colorado Avenue by 1931. The company moved to 220-224 7th Street by 1939. In 1928, the company sold Durant cars, Auburns and Stars. During the Great Depression, the company sold Durant cars in Grand Junction and Hudson cars in Delta. The Durant Company went broke in 1931 and the company began selling Chryslers in addition to Hudsons. In 1937, the company dropped Hudsons. The Great Depression caused a downturn in the number of car purchases, and restrictions were placed on car sales during World War II. During the 1950’s, however, Durant Motors sold between 300 and 500 cars per year. Few people were able to pay cash for automobiles, and the company did their own financing on smaller vehicles. Around 1949, Austin Laycock and Lowell Laycock began driving trucks to Detroit and other automobile production sites, built frames to carry cars back to Grand Junction onsite, then returned with the cars as freight. He reports in his interview that Laycock Motor Company was one of the first dealerships in the country to transport automobiles this way. City directories list Wilbur Laycock as the owner and operator until 1957, with Lowell listed as a salesman at the dealership. Lowell took over the business in 1958 upon his father’s death and retired from the automobile trade in 1965, when the agency was sold to Jack Williams. Williams in turn passed the business onto Jerry Eisenhower. Earl Laycock continued to work for the business until 1970.
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- Leslie J. Savage Library
- The Leslie J. Savage library was built in 1939 and named in honor of Mr. Savage, Trustee for the State Colleges in Colorado from 1935-1964. In 1964, a larger, three-story addition was added. The original building was designed in a Spanish Colonial Revival style, and the library has been added to the State Register of Historical Places. In addition to holding print and electronic materials, the library is home to the Helen A. Jensen Collection, a collection of materials related to Gunnison and the surrounding area, as well as the University Archives.
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- Light and Power Company (Grand Junction, Colorado)
- The Light and Power Company provided electricity to the Grand Valley in the early Twentieth Century. It also owned and operated the Grand Junction and Grand River Valley Railway Company, which ran the Interurban line between Fruita and Grand Junction, Colorado. The Light and Power Company was later purchased by the Public Service Company of Colorado. The Public Service Company was in turn a founding partner of Xcel Energy.
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- Lippard's Electric Shop (Salida, Colo.)
- Lippard's Electric Shop (motor winding, repairing, wiring) was owned and operated by Leslie Lippard and was located at 227 G St.