People

: Gianna Karis; According to oral history interviewee Stephen Johnson Sr., Karis was a Greek-American who owned a game farm at 1st Street and Patterson. One of the animals on the game farm was a monkey named Oscar. Oscar got loose and was captured by Johnson's son Bob Johnson.

: Gilbert Gordon; He was born in the Denver, Colorado area to Israel and Carrie Gordon, Russian immigrants. He grew up in Trinidad and worked in the Gordon Store, a family business that later became a chain with many stores in Colorado and other Western states. His family was active in the area’s Jewish community. In 1923, he was asked to join the youth organization Demolay, sponsored by the Masonic Lodge. Some of the other members, who were also KKK members, tried to prevent his acceptance. He moved to Las Vegas, New Mexico in 1929 to open another branch of his family’s store. While there, he met Mary Tananbaum, his future wife. He then opened a Gordon’s in Grand Junction in 1931, moved to Durango and opened a store there in 1936, and moved back to Grand Junction in 1945.

: Gilbert Limberg; He was born in Missouri. His father, a farmer, died when Limberg was one year old. His mother had two sisters in Grand Junction, Colorado, and so the family moved there in 1903, when Limberg was nine. They lived in boarding houses that his mother ran, and then moved to a farm on Old River Road, where the family raised and sold vegetables. He attended the Lowell School and then the Franklin School. At the age of seventeen, Limberg left high school and took a job in the tool shop of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad. After four years, he apprenticed as a boilermaker. When the machine shop closed down, the machinery was sold to McCrary Welding, where Limberg came to work. He married in 1920.

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