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The Williams Café and Bar around 1950. The Williams Café was located at 101 Main Street in Minturn. At one time, it was managed by Herbert Dunwiddie. David and Marie (Ruder) Williams were former owners. The Williams Café eventually closed and became Chili Willy's. Chili Willy's closed in 2010. Magustos restaurant now occupies the building.
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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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Williams Café and Bar in the winter of 1940-1941. The Williams Café was located at 101 Main Street in Minturn. At one time, it was managed by Herbert Dunwiddie. David and Marie (Ruder) Williams were former owners. The Williams Café eventually closed and became Chili Willy's. Chili Willy's closed in 2010. Magustos restaurant now occupies the building. The Minturn water tower is visible in the background on the right.
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A cafe next to the Dotsero Drug Company, one of the buildings left from the railroad boom at Dotsero. There are two men seated outside the cafe. It probably also functioned as one of two bars in town (the other was located on Riverside Way on the river bank). The photo was printed April 2, 1933. Duplicate photo in 2008.015.
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From back left, MacDonald Knight, Perlita Knight, Tom and Sophie Knight. In front are Betty Jo Knight Schmidt and Glenn Schmidt. Verso: "Minturn 1944 by M&R Café, Don, Perlita, Mom, Tom, Me and Glen BJS" [June 1984 copy]
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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.
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Looking north up Broadway, Castle Peak on the horizon, behind Eby Creek. Liebers Cafe on the right hand side of the street. Two women and a child are riding in the back of a pickup truck.

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Restaurant in Eagle owned by Virginia Ann Burk Beam Alvord, who is standing to the right. Standing left is Bessie Beam Luby, standing center is Ann Alvord and seated between the two ladies is Florence Alvord. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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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Mr. and Mrs. Calvick are posed in a doorway wearing coats and hats. They owned Calvick Cafe in Eagle, Colorado (listed in the 1935 Eagle Valley Telephone Company with phone number 25-F3). [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Virginia Ann Burk Beam Alvord "made Eagle her home for many years, and operated restaurants in various locations of Eagle from the early days until during the '30s." [Eagle Valley Enterprise, July 31, 1969] She died in Colorado Springs July 28, 1969, just 18 days after her 91st birthday, while living with a daughter.
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A group of diners at the Eagle Cafe. Happily, the calendar on the wall identifies the date as September 1952. From left: Dennie Eaton, Howard McCain, Marilla McCain, Lucille Eaton and the Cafe owner.
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Buddy and Starr Doll visiting Wanda and Dub [--], owners of the Hanging Lake Bar & Grill in Glenwood Canyon, December 1951. Jack Roberts, the artisit, had his first studio at Hanging Lake.
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"This house near Bond was the home of John and Mary Payne and family for eight years and during six of those years it was a meal stop for hungry travelers on the main road between State Bridge and McCoy where meals were to be had for twenty-five cents." -- McCoy Memoirs p.140 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]