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Fifty years ago this Friday, July 6, 1934, Chauncey N. Aldrich and Lila M. Beach tied the knot in Bayfield, Colorado.
It’S a day both remember well— and a wedding date selected primarily because of a holiday known as Independence Day.
Chauncey was working in Leadville, Colorado, 160 miles from Lila’s hometown. He had two days off, enough time, he figured.
He borrowed a car and started out during the only time of year it gets hot in the Rockies, he pushed the jalopy like a Pony Express rider — it’s radiator boiled all the way to Bayfield.
Chaucey and Lila had met nearly two years earlier, during English class at Colorado State University, known as Colorado Aggies in those days.
It was winter semester, 1932’33. The Great Depression was causing more gloom than a Colorado midwinter forecast.
Chauncey was majoring in civil engineering; Lila in home economics. The English class was a requirement, no doubt.
Lila recalled how she first noticed Chauncey. “He always came to class late,” she prods.
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