Message from the Mayor
Our friend Keith Bloom said that the boy’s basketball team might be shorthanded due to not enough boys dedicating themselves to the program.
That was back in 1960.
I was doing some research for the Centennial Committee and got stuck reading that article from the Powell Tribune. It seems that Keith, the boy’s basketball coach, was giving a presentation to the Rotary and made that statement, which I found prophetic.
I moved on to another article that talked about a car crash in Garland that claimed four lives. I pondered how that could shock a community the size of Powell and how this community healed itself.
Time, I guess, heals wounds. Powell’s Centennial is one hundred years of healing. The Centennial is one hundred years of celebration, too.
I got stuck in the sports section and read some football and wrestling stories. Lloyd Snyder helped lead his team to a win in wrestling. The problem was, old Lloyd was wrestling for Worland and they beat Powell.
Those darn Worland kids!
I saw that Cody attorney Alan Simpson was arguing a case on trading stamps. Some communities were banning them. The devil’s tool! Can you imagine being on the other end of an Alan Simpson tirade in a court case? “I give up, your honor.”
There was a car dealer downtown talking about the new models. That’s right, in downtown Powell.
The Teton Theater was showing some kind of western while Moyer Drug was advertising their sale on vitamins. Heaslers was advertising their home furnaces. The classified ads had some cars and trucks for one hundred dollars.
I was supposed to research an entire decade and didn’t even make it through one year in 1960. Were there protests in Powell in the late sixties? I don’t know. I couldn’t make it through one year.
I failed the Centennial Committee.
The dates we have are going to go into a calendar that will have something in Powell’s history on every date of the year.
If you want to make sure that the committee has your significant date on the calendar, make sure to contact them. E-mail Sharon@tctwest.com or send me a note at mayormangold@cityofpowell.com.
As you can tell, the calendar will be lacking some stuff from the 1960’s.
I blame the citizens of Powell.
You were just too darn interesting back then.
MAYOR MANGOLD
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