Loyd Files talks about his early life in Kansas, moving to Colorado with his family via covered wagon in 1914, and the process of filing for a homestead. He remembers homesteading with his parents in Lamar, Colorado, and with his brother in Glade Park in 1920. He recalls working on the crew that built the Serpents Trail over the Colorado National Monument, meeting John Otto, and helping build Rimrock Drive over the Monument. He speaks about his marriage to Cordelia Hamilton and their life on Glade Park in the 1920’s and 1930’s. He talks about the salvage yard he ran with his brother on North Avenue in Grand Junction, and building the area’s first drive-in movie theater (also on North Avenue). He describes his development of the land south and east of the Veterans Hospital, in what is now the East Lincoln Park neighborhood. These developments included a midget racecar track, an airport hangar and runway for larger craft, the Starlite Drive-in, the Teller Arms Shopping Center, a residential neighborhood, and the first artesian well and drinking water source along North Avenue east of Lincoln Park. He discusses the history of Glade Park and using cisterns to store drinking water and refrigerate food on their homestead. He speaks about working through Colorado West Senior Citizen Inc. to build the Monterey Park Apartments, Grand Junction’s first senior-only housing. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.