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41) Broadway
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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.]
42) Moorehead place
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The Moorehead place on Sheephorn Creek, built in 1899. An automobile and unidentified man at left.
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Barbara Gleason (Pearch) and friend standing next to an automobile. The west side of Broadwas street in Eagle is visible in the background.
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Cora and Joe Carter, standing in front of an automobile in Leadville, Colorado. The license plate is for 1942.
"Sam and Russell's mother was Cora Fenno (daughter of Emma Fenno Graham), who married Joe Carter in Leadville in 1904. Soon after that, the two took up a homestead in the pretty draw that bears their name. They continued living in Leadville, 'proving up' on the land during the summer. Then in the 1920s, they built a two-story white clapboard...
45) Seeing Denver
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Photo postcard twelve-passenger open touring vehicle labeled: "2," "Seeing Denver." The vehicle is parked along a city street. There are eleven passengers and a driver, including two children. Information stamped on back: "Seeing Denver Automobiles; Seeing Denver Cars; Seeing the Foothills Cars."
Inscription: "Mother," "Pearl Mize"
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Bill (W. R>) Robertson and Jim Neely at Hanging Lake Trailhead, Glenwood Canyon. The young men are standing by Rene Estes' automobile
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Front view of Lucero's Hwy. 24 Liquors, with gas pumps removed. Lucero's Hwy. 24 Liquor Store & Self Service Gas station opened in 1974. The gas station was closed in 2007 and the liquor store closed in 2008. Tony Lucero [81 years old in 2009], proprietor, also worked at the Climax Mine, Leadville, for twenty years.
Article on the opening of the liquor store: Eagle Valley Enterprise, Oct. 26, 1974 p.5.
Calendar from this service station is accessioned...
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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
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Automobiles parked at Gilman along the main road into the town. Housing in left background. The building at the far right is the one-story part of the shaft house. Stacked mine timbers can barely be seen above the roofline. This appears to be taken prior to the bus line that ran from Minturn.
Notch Mountain is visible at the upper left.
50) 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.]
51) Hwy 6, Eagle
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view of road repair/construction on Hwy 6 just west of Eagle, Colorado. Men are examining the work area; automobiles are parked alongside the road. Steam shovel, dump truck and grader are moving earth.
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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.
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Blanche and John Kavanaugh, holding baby Mary on his shoulder, in Minturn, August 1936. They are standing next to an automobile.
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A line camp above the Chester Mayer ranch on the west range during summer grazing.
55) Eldon Wilson
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Eldon Wilson leaning against an automobile at Pine Mountain.
"Stamp on verso: Made at the 'Picture Shop' Casper, Wyo."
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Ron Dump, Theodore "Bud" Beck, Louie "Dutch" Gleiforst and a fourth man standing in front of a trailor house. Ron Dump has his right arm in his right boot (his right foot is bootless but socked) and the men are examining the toe. The men were cutting logs for Ray Earl Warren, owner of the trailer house. Model A Ford in the background; logs, sandwich and canteen in foreground. The site is 3.5 miles up Shrine Pass and was known as Kelly's. It's...
57) Road Maintenance
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An automobile and a snow plow parked next to each other on Tennessee Pass. Several men are standing next to the automobile and it appears to be snowing.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The Haas Ranch at Sandstone Creek (Vail) with Frank Haas (left) and Jim Fanning on horseback. The cabin in the background was rented to William Gould.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Potato fields on the Fenno Ranch; automobile parked in foreground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Late 1920s, a Velie and lady named Ruth. Inscription on back: "Ruth & the Velie ready to start home to Adrian."
Velie was a brass era American automobile brand produced by the Velie Motors Corporation in Moline, Illinois from 1908 to 1929. The company was founded by and named for Willard Velie, a maternal grandson of John Deere.
Velie ads bragged they "produce every important part" and are not simply assemblers, a lesson Ford had taught.
It was...
