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61. Town Park
64. Montoya house
68. Fourth of July
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The fire brigade and hose cart for the Red Cliff fire department, posed in front of the Town Hall. The fire department was in the bottom floor of the Town Hall building.
"The first fire department was organized by Aaron Graham in 1888. It was of the push cart type but an improvement over the old bucket brigade type."--A History of Eagle County, p.5.
Since the bottom floor of the Town Hall was the fire department, an estimate of 1888-1889 is used...
71. Harold Stokes
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Harold "Lefty" Stokes, July 1966. Mr. Stokes worked on the Homestake Dam project, along with Harry Snyder (Whitey), Kelly Bissell, Sy Piedmont (Project Manager), Chuck Kincaid, Van Wiley (Safety), Harry Lentz, Jack Trepto, Buster Beck (Drill & Powder Foreman). The work crews lived in trailer homes at Pando.
72. Buster Beck
73. Iomes fire
74. Montoya's house
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Teenagers in front of the Public Service Building in Red Cliff. This building had been the bank up until the time the county seat moved from Red Cliff to Eagle.
Bruce Beck, standing with his back to the camera, is wearing a leather jacket. The three young men standing, to his right, are: Chuck Dump, Hugh Riley Jr., and Bud Beck.
79. Trujillo House
80. Tom and Dick
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Horses Tom and Dick tethered to a wagon. Tom and Dick were the team that moved Dessie, Earl and Theodore Beck from Salida to Red Cliff.
"The Earl Beck family moved into town sometime after Jan. 14, 1923, when I was born, and before March 2, 1925, when Buster was born, but I have never known just exactly when. We lived for a short while in a house on Monument Street and then moved down to the lower end of town on Water Street. We rented for a while...