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21) Loading wool
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Ranchers loading bags of wool at the depot in Eagle. Horse teams are dragging the skids.
22) Water Street
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A view of Water Street (right bottom) from the Pine St. bridge. At left is the Canuto Velasquez family home. The railroad tracks are at center bottom. On the hill above Water Street is a house built by Mike Bice.
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Lettuce shed at Allentown, Colorado, near Edwards Colorado, 1939. Fort Tidwell Company is on the sign on top of the building.
[Title supplied from a catalog supplied by the Eagle County Historical Society]
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Roy Marfitano, holding the reins of his horse, in 1940. They are standing above the Eagle Bridge in Red Cliff, with the Warren family barn and corrals in the background, looking north. The Anderson delivery truck and the railroad tracks are left of Roy.
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Avon as viewed from the "Gypsum Cliffs." Two engines of a train putting off lots of smoke in midground. Emmett Nottingham place is at lower right. Harry Nottingham place is above the smoke at Buck Creek. Original Avon Store is 100 feet west of Avon Road. Above the smoke plume are the buildings on the Nottingham Ranch. Below the railroad tracks, the Avon Road and bridge across the Eagle River are visible through the treeline. At the bottom left,...
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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.
27) Mercantile
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John E. Kavanaugh, 10 or 12 years old, standing between two men in a store, possibly in Minturn. John was born in Salida, Colorado, December 6, 1910. His parents were Henry O. Anderson and Hilma Lindgren Anderson. His name was later changed from Anderson to Kavanaugh when he was adopted by his mother's second husband, William "Billy" Kavanaugh, an engineer on the D&RG Railroad.
Many products are visible, such as bananas hanging in the center...
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Front of the Sloss's grocery store: two story brick building with prominent sign. "The old County Road was beginning to be used as a business section. Bill Tierney put up a brick store building on this road, and was in the grocery business until 1904, when William Frey took it over and ran it until 1905. After that, he moved back down on Railroad Avenue. Next., Mr. J. F. Sloss and Son took over the store and ran it until 1928. From that time...
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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.
30) Lundgren Store
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The Gypsum Valley Grocery on Railroad Avenue was the original Lundgren Store. Adolph Lundgren immigrated from Sweden in 1907 and started the store in 1912. After Adloph died in 1916, wife Anna and daughter Minnie Lundgren continued the store. In 1920, George Beale became a partner and the name changed to "Beale and Lundgren." In 1930, Beale left and it was operated by Minnie and her brother Elmer.
31) Harvesting ice
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Harvesting ice at Pando. Workers on the right are pulling ice chunks to the bank with gaffs. A pair of tongs is in the foreground.
According to the Assessment Roll 1930 Eagle County, the Western Railways Ice Co. (Pando), in School Taxation District Mitchell 2, owned the following, located on railroad property in Minturn:
1 boarding house (18' x 100'), 2 bunk houses (12' x 50'), 1 bunk house (12' x 16'), 1 tool house, 1 boiler house, 1 machine shed...
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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.
