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Alec/Ackie Macdonell and a friend at the Glenwood Springs Hot Springs pool.
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Lou Clark and Bob Waldvogle swimming at Wilmor[e] Lake. Bob was the younger brother of Ernie Waldvogle, Lou's brother-in-law.
"The lake--bigger than the one that remains since Interstate Highway 70 was placed on the north side of the Eagle River--was wonderful to swim in. It was clean, and it was cold, but not icy. A clean spring fed it, the spring from which we also hauled home drinking water in milk cans." -- p.6, The Clarks of Eagle County,...
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Kate Flynn in bathing costume at the Glenwood Hot Springs pool. Slide is in the background.
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Warren Seiler, son of Jennie Seiler, with two unidentified girls at the Lloyd Ranch. They are playing in the pool.
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Swim class, Eagle Valley High School, at the Glenwood Hot Springs pool.
Back row: Gary Leiber [teacher], Bill Simmons, Mike Knupp, Buddy Doll, Chris Koonce, Sam Johnson, Leroy Mayne, Jack Bindley, Paul Mayne, Jim Watson, Kevin Doll, and Dick Mayne.
Front row: Deanna Eichler, Anna Kay Bindley, Donna Lynn Price, Jeanie Eichler, and Diane Simmons. (EVE July 14, 2005 p. 2)
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]...
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Red Cliff High School students swimming in Homestake Creek, possibly at Mickey's Hole located about 1.5 miles up Homestake Creek from Red Cliff. "It is a place where the creek curves away from the hillside at a big granite boulder, forming a pool more or less 4 feet deep. The boulder is 6 or 8 feet high and the pool is deep enough to allow a person to jump off the rock into the water and not suffer any permanent injury." -- Bud Beck, 2010
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Stanley McHatton (middle) and Jo Shryack (right) swim in the pool at Glenwood Springs in 1911.
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Mary Cox talks about her education at the Bryant School and elsewhere in Grand Junction, about corsets and other aspects of school fashion, the history of the Riverside Neighborhood, attending community dances and Glenwood Springs’ Strawberry Days, and boys swimming in the Colorado River. She also discusses old downtown businesses, going to movies at the Majestic Theater, a brothel that advertised at the Mesa County Fairgrounds during a baseball...
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Eugene Perry talks about his childhood in Grand Junction’s Riverside neighborhood. He speaks about working for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad from the time he was thirteen years old, his career building track as a section foreman, and the history of D&RG in Grand Junction. He discusses landmarks such as Bowman’s slaughterhouse, the Pest House, and the town’s ice houses. He reminisces about a youth curfew that was in place in Grand Junction...
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Ann Stokes talks about her father-in-law Walter Stokes and his involvement in Nineteenth century labor strife as a union coal miner in Colorado. She describes his establishment of the Stokes Mine after he moved to Mesa County and describes the mine’s operations. She speaks about early phone service in Palisade. She discusses her mom’s job as a nurse in rural areas, which included tasks like housecleaning, cooking, and sewing baby clothes for new...
