Good day, Sir. A nicely dressed, but unknown man walks through an apparent cut in the snowbank on Greene Street in front of the Grand Hotel, left, and Cunningham & Crocker Drugstore, right. The sign for the Hub Saloon can be seen. What debauchery happened there? The photo comes from the archives and is believed to have been taken in 1906. Photo: Archival photo from the San Juan County Historical Society
Way Back!
120 YEARS AGO From the March 7, 1903 edition of the Silverton Standard: IN SERIOUS TROUBLE.
Last Sunday morning about 4 o’clock Ben Dunston, a Cornish man who has lived in this city for several years, came down from the Unity tunnel and being drunk, proceeded home and took a shot at his wife.
A roomer in the house heard the commotion and rushed into the room to see ...
