City’s first electric traffic light installed (4th & Main)
”January
1925
Colorado Building constructed at NW corner 4th & Main
1923
”January
1923
Parkview Hospital opens at 16th and Grand
1922
”January
1922
Fire destroys the Grand Opera House
1921
”January
1921
Great Flood – June 3rd– Arkansas and Fountain Rivers devastate downtown. Floodwaters said to be more than a mile wide and 14 feet deep in places, hundreds of lives lost
1920
”January
1920
Census Population: 43,050
”January
1920
Steelwork’s YMCA opens – largest industrial Y in the country
1919
”January
1919
Memorial Hall completed – President Woodrow Wilson gives his last public address there