My father, Neal Kyser McNaughten, was born in Pueblo, Colorado in 1911. As a teen in the 1920s he and his friend Dave Packard had a business together installing radio antennas in people's homes. Dave later went on to co-found Hewlett-Packard with Bill Hewlett and my father worked for the State Department, FCC, RCA, and Ampex where he was VP for Professional Products and oversaw the production of the VR1000, the first commercial videotape recorder (for television broadcast).
As teens, Dave's father regularly took them fishing in the Taylor Park area along the Gunnison River. At that time there were many active mines and Tin Cup , though not what it once was during the mining heyday, was still an active mining town. My father's recollections of those days as conveyed in this video should be of interest to historians of the area. He mentions a number of individuals that he knew and met in those early days.
My dad, Dave Packard and his father drove his Dave's father's Model T up to Taylor Park and Tin Cup on dirt roads. My father described to me once how there were so many porcupines that sometimes he and Dave sat on the fender with sticks to nudge the out of the road so they didn't get run over and puncture the balloon tires. He also told about an in entrepreneuring individual who hauled some gasoline up into Tin Cup which he then sold to desperate travelers for $1/gallon which was about a 1000% markup.
My dad and the Packards fished for trout all over the area and he tells about how they used an old native American trick that someone had taught them. The would clean the fish, fill them with the grass that grew along the banks of the streams, then wrap a number of them in more grass and finally a piece of burlap. They would then take this package down to Gunnison and mail it back to Pueblo. It took about three days and he said they never had a bad batch. My father's father, Jess Neal McNaughten, managed the Post Office in Pueblo and kept an eye out for these packages.
Recollections of Tin Cup, Colorado (1920s and 30s) camera iphone 8 plus apk | |
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