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A closeup of the Conoco Station on Hwy 6 with two gas pumps and garage.
"Gas stations were full-service in those days, with uniformed attendants who offered to check oil, wash windshields, and pump gas. This Conoco station was location on Highway 6." -- Kathy Heicher, Early Eagle, p.110
42. McCoy Lane
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McCoy Lane, McCoy, Colorado, looking East. A mix of automobiles and horse-drawn vehicles are on the streets.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Taken August 2, 2011, Claude DeGraw with Hwy 6 in the background.
Deconstruction of the Nogal-Ping hotel and cabins in Eagle by Claude DeGraw began in 2010. Nogal's Hotel, built in 1892, was later purchased by the O. A. Ping family in 1923. It was occupied by siblings Leonard and Garnet Ping most recently. Leonard died in 1988 and Garnet moved to Gypsum in the late 1990s, passing away in 2003. It stands at the corner of Hwy 24 and Capitol Streets...
44. Loading wool
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Ranchers loading bags of wool at the depot in Eagle. Horse teams are dragging the skids.
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Boarding house in Gilman, Colorado, after heavy snow. Captioned: "Warm banks, Gilman, Colo 1933."
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The Carlson IGA Store and the Basalt Post Office, located about midblock of main street (Railroad Avenue) Basalt. A public water fountain is located between the two buildings.
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John Kavanaugh and Blanche Wyatt [Kavanaugh] (sitting on fender) with two girls; all are posed in front of a vehicle. In the background is an IGA store in Minturn, Colorado. A Coca Cola sign is visible on the building. A gasoline pump is in the left background.
48. Eldon Wilson
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Studio photograph of Eldon Wilson taken in 1941.
"Wilson was the first in Colorado to supply a television signal to the residents of mountainous areas using antennas and transfers." He "was deeply interested in the [Eagle County] airport and contributed many hours trying to get it developed and funded, beginning in the late 1930s."
"Wilson was one of a small group of people that started and maintained the ice skating rink in Eagle in the 1930s, as...
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Buildings in Dotsero, from left:
Delco Light Company, which used a gasoline engine to charge batteries. It was a 32 volt light plant after World War II.
Cafe between the Light Company and the Dotsero Drug Company, which may also have been a bar. There were two bars in Dotsero during the railroad years.
Dotsero Drug Company at far right, providing service to railroad construction workers and their families.
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The Parachute Store, Doll Bros. & Smith, in Parachute, Colorado. The store is decorated for the 4th of July. People are standing on the boardwalk. Train is at left. Zachariah Doll was the Doll brother most involved with the store.
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Buster (on left) and Jack Beck sitting on a felled log at the upper Wearyman logging camp (Warren Brothers & Robinson Sawmill).
52. Walter Gates
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Studio portrait of Walter Gates (1879-1947), son of Madison Cassius "Cash" Gates.
"Walter worked for the Kodak Company and he took a lot of pictures whenever he visited. It seemed like he was always taking pictures. (We are grateful for that because many of the pictures in this book were taken by him.) -- The Gates Genealogy
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Looking down on the Denver & Rio Grande W. roundhouse at Minturn, with the town at back on the right, sometime in the 1930s.
In 1928, a new 120-foot turntable was set in place, replacing the old 100-foot table installed in 1912. The older turntable could not accommodate the 3600-series simple-articulated locomotives assigned to the area. The turntable and roundhouse dominated Minturn
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Front view of Theodore Stremme's Store in Gypsum, Colorado. Three women and a man are facing the camera, standing on the boardwalk. An automobile with passengers is at the right of the building.
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Avery's Texaco station in Dotsero, with gas pump out front. There is a kerosene pump next to the ice house, where 100 pounds of ice cost 50 cents. Gas price of the day was 14 cents per gallon. Advertisements for Nehi and ice cream are on the station buiding.
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Johnson Brothers Herefords, Eagle Colorado (calling card)
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Ranchers loading bags of wool at the depot in Eagle. Horse teams are dragging the skids.
Caption: "Loading part of $20,600 wool shipment from Eagle, Colorado."
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Bivans' ledger, Avon Store, spine and front cover.
"In the town of Avon, at the mouth of Beaver Creek, Stephen Bivans kept a store in a single-story log building. When Bivans left for Utah in 1908 Charles and Esther Adams, from Pennsylvania, arrived to take over the business." -- Beaver Creek by June Simonton, p. 44.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
59. Hugh Luby
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Hugh Luby, on right, standing on the boardwalk in front of a business establishment (possibly Minturn Mercantile prior to the brick building) in Minturn. An unidentified man is standing next to the barbershop adjoining the business building.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
60. Broadway
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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.]