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Fleming Lumber Company framing mill in Red Cliff, Colorado. Man in midground is working on framing timbers. Steps and fence in foreground. Equipment on top road in background was being used to prepare road for the construction of the Red Cliff bridge (Hwy 24).
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
24. Roy Marfitano
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Roy Marfitano standing next to the Carl G. Anderson Ford delivery truck in Red Cliff, Colorado. Roy is holding a Campbell's Soup sign in his right hand. He is wearing his work uniform.
The photo was taken on Eagle Street near the D&RG property/section huose above the Eagle bridge in Red Ciff.
27. Kid Hoover
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"Kid" [William A.] Hoover in the office at the Fleming lumber mill, Red Cliff, 1925. Invoices hanging on wall at left; saws hanging on wall at right.
Hoover was a teamster for the Fleming Lumber Company, Empire Zinc Company, and a member of the Leadville fire department. He "...became one of the best teamsters the country ever knew. Perched on a wagon carrying five or six tons of ore or lumber, holding the strings on six or eight 1800-pound horses,...
30. Joan Perkins
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Joan Perkins, daughter of Dempsey and Moreen Perkins, in Red Cliff. The family lived in an apartment above Deviney's grocery store. The Standard Service Station is visible in the background.
"A school teacher took this picture. We thought the big letters ME was cute. The sign really said MEAT." -- Moreen Perkins
31. Buster Beck
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Ralph and Pearl Lewis Henderson standing in front of an automobile with their dog; August 1969.
Pearl worked in the Henderson store and at the Red Cliff Museum. She was a member of the Eagle County Historical Society and Neighbors of Woodcraft.
Ralph Henderson owned Henderson's Variety Store in Red Cliff and sold cars in Red Cliff for Burt Chevrolet, Denver. Ralph also owned the bus line to Gilman, which took workers back and forth to the mine....
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Antique Red Cliff barber chair used outside a trailer in Red Cliff. Photo on left was taken in July 2005. Although the seat cushion is missing, the rest of the chair still shows its original paint and the vertical cushions are in good condition.
The photo on the right shows the chair on October 13, 2007, after having been left out in the weather for two years. The cushions show deterioration, the paint is almost gone, and the footrest has disappeared...
37. Henderson Motors
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Sign on the business: Henderson Motors OK Used Cars & Trucks, in Red Cliff, December 1999. Ralph Henderson owned Henderson's Variety Store in Red Cliff and sold cars in Red Cliff for Burt Chevrolet, Denver. Ralph also owned the bus line to Gilman, which took workers back and forth to the mine.
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Victor Dump at the reins of the horse team and Otto Bergman sitting on lumber from the Fleming Lumber mill. The lumber is on a skid drawn by a horse team.
"The breast strap of the team is threaded through both rings, with the pole strap loop captured between them. This arrangement virtually eliminates the tendency for the end ring sleeve to be pulled off the end of the neckyoke. Simple, but good insurance." -- Stu Dykstra
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