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"Colorado's big game season has been postponed a week, and ... will open Oct. 24 on the Western Slope and run thru Nov. 9. Postponement was at the request of federal and state land use agencies, who state the fire hazard is more acute this year than last year, and at an extremely high point." -- Eagle Valley Enterprise Oct. 8, 1953 p.1 The line of hunters trying to get elk licenses validated stretched for quite a way in front of the Eagle County...
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Sanborn photo postcard [W-1116] looking south down Broadway St., Eagle, Colorado, showing downtown buildings. Highway 40 sign in intersection. Texaco station on left. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Photo postcard looking up Broadway (the main street) in Eagle, Colorado, north toward Castle Peak in the backround. The Eagle theatre is on the far left.
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Main street in Eagle in 1917 (Broadway), looking north.
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Businesses on Broadway, Eagle, Colorado, in the 1920s. Several automobiles are parked in front of the buildings. The street is unpaved. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"Min Sharp stands in front of the snow banks on the east side of Broadway in Eagle. Photo was likely taken in December 1960. Notice the stores in the background. From left to right, Eagle Liquors, Sharp's Pool Hall, Stanley's Cash Grocery and Lieber's Cafe." -- Those Were the Days, Eagle Valley Enterprise Jan. 8, 2004, p.2
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A group of men examine the aftermath of the Eagle Valley Enterprise building fire. St. Mary's Cathoic Church is in the background (belltower visible). "A devastating fire on January 13, 1932, destroyed the newspaper office on Broadway. The fire started in an adjacent dry-cleaning shop and wiped out several main street businesses. George Carlow sounded the fire alarm, but the town's limited fire equipment malfunctioned in the freezing termperatures....
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Broadway, the main street through Eagle, showing several homes. There is a sidewalk and a fire hydrant is visible in the foreground.
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Broadway in Eagle. The building on the right was built by the First National Bank of Eagle County. The two story half of the building was occupied by general merchandise stores (F. Hugus and Co.; later, the Lewis store); the one story side by the bank. The line of wagons and carriages may be a parade. Same as 1991.001.046 Photo only scanned once into Past Perfect. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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A slightly different perspective of the aftermath of the Eagle Valley Enterprise building fire. The E.E. Glenn store is visible at left and the billiard parlor is on the right. "A devastating fire on January 13, 1932, destroyed the newspaper office on Broadway. The fire started in an adjacent dry-cleaning shop and wiped out several main street businesses. George Carlow sounded the fire alarm, but the town's limited fire equipment malfunctioned...
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The U.S. Post Office in Eagle Colorado, barbershop and drug store. They are located in the Dice Building, built in 1904, on the west side of Broadway. There is an automobile parked on the street and some men are sitting on the stairs at the far left. From the collection of Robert Thomas DeFoor who coached the Gypsum High School football team in the 1920s. He was a school teacher and pharmacist. He married Lydia Gretchen Doll, who died in Denver...
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[5,000th image added to the collection] A view of Broadway St. in Eagle, taken at the intersection with 3rd St., looking north. There is a streetlight post in the middle of the intersection with "Keep Right" written at the base. Castle Peak is on the horizon. A directional sign to U.S. Highway 24 is at the right at midground On the left, the Dice building [2 story brick] is the closest building on 2d St. At the northern end, the Koonce Chevrolet...
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West side of Broadway in Eagle. The Dice Building is at the far left. Sam Lemon is standing at right. Inscription says "Len on horse."
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A group of men examine the aftermath of the Eagle Valley Enterprise building fire. The Dice building is at midfield. "A devastating fire on January 13, 1932, destroyed the newspaper office on Broadway. The fire started in an adjacent dry-cleaning shop and wiped out several main street businesses. George Carlow sounded the fire alarm, but the town's limited fire equipment malfunctioned in the freezing termperatures. The building was a complete loss....
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Carrie and Dave Duncan's home which was located on the north corner of Broadway; now (2012) a private residence on Capital Street. "Mrs. Duncan and her husband, Dave Duncan, were two of the early pioneers of Eagle. They became residents of Eagle in about 1890, and for many years Mr. Duncan's place of business was the meeting place in the lower Eagle Valley." --Eagle Valley Enterprise Jan. 24, 1941. Dave Duncan died in 1909; Carrie continued to live...
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Looking south on Broadway Street, Eagle, Colorado. Texaco gas station in left midground. Man running down sidewalk toward camera. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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An unidentified woman is standing next to a barber pole in downtown Eagle. Behind her, from the left, the signs read: E. E. Glenn & Co. General Merchandise; Livery and Feed; Spearhead Plug Tobacco; Eagle Cafe.