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281) Conoco Fuel Truck
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Conoco fuel truck parked in front of the gas pump at Mickey Walsh's gas station, Red Cliff, Colorado. Gas pump stands in front of fuel truck. Two men are leaning against the truck. Signs on the building visible: Quaker State Motor Oil, Chrysler Motor Cars, AAA.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
282) Mamie Walsh
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Portrait of Mamie C. Walsh. She married W. W. "Mickey" Walsh on Aug. 11, 1920. She belonged to the Catholic Daughters, Gold Star Mothers, and Neighbors of Woodcraft. She was a volunteer at Veterans Affairs Medical Center and a member of American Legion Auxiliary Post No. 1957 and American Legion Post No. 37. She was a committee member of the Mesa County Democratic Party
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Jack Beck standing on logs at Benson's sawmill, Shrine Pass. Benson's barn in is the background. Bensons had a saw mill at Pando but after they moved their logging operation up Shrine Pass, they hauled their logs to Smith's Lumber Co. in Leadville.
Logging in that area was done at Shrine Pass, Tates Gulch, WIllow Creek, Lime Creek and Wearyman. Names of people involved in logging: Alfred Benson; Gus Benson (no relation); John Magunson (a blacksmith...
284) Red Cliff bus line
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The Red Cliff bus parked in front of the bus garage on the right. The Standard filling station is at the end of the street (far left in the picture). Ralph Henderson and Dick Lucero were owners of the bus line at different times. The buses carried the miners from Red Ciff to the mine at Gilman. They smoked in the bus and the ceiling would be nicotine stained. Angela Beck washed the bus ceiling down at one point for Ralph Henderson.
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Joel James Fitzgerald III, standing on a framer's pole at Warren's mill, near Cole Creek, up Shrine Pass, Forest Service Rd. no. 709. The kiln in the background was used to make charcoal for the smelters in Leadville.
Joel was the son of Loryne Fitzgerald, a teacher at Red Cliff Union High School. They lived next door to the Beck family in Red Cliff.
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Roy Tippett (L) and Buster Beck on horseback, posed in front of stacked mine timbers for the Gilman Mine. The house in the background belongs to the framer who worked for Fleming Lumber Company.
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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,...
288) Fleming Sawmill
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The old Fleming sawmill on the "potato patch" in Gore Creek. Highway 6 is visible in the background, as well as Red Sandstone Rd. The sawmill burned on August 31, 1954.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
289) Skelly Gas Station
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A Skelly Gas Station located near Edwards. Skelly Oil was founded in 1919 and went defunct in 1977 when it was purchased by the larger Getty Oil Company. "The Koprinikar mesa being developed. Note the snow on Baldy. Late June 1979."
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The White Eagle Gas Station (Conoco Inc.) in Dotsero, with gas pump out front. Photo was printed April 2, 1933.
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Town of Eagle workers grading the area next to the barn in preparation for the relocation of Bob Mayne's donated farm house, which serves as the Information Center in Chambers Park.
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The Eagle County Historical Museum at its present location at Chambers Park in Eagle, Colorado. The Chambers horse barn was originally located at the site of the present I-70 interchange on the Chambers Ranch. It was moved to temporary storage in 1981, while the Eagle County Historical Society raised funds for a foundation to be built. It was seated on the foundation in 1984 and opened to the public as a local history museum in 1991.
The historic...
293) Moving farm house
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The Mayne farm house being moved from the Eagle County Fairgrounds to its final location at Chambers Park to become the Information Center.
294) Nogal-Ping Hotel
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The Nogal-Ping Hotel at the corner of Capitol Street and Highway 6. A sign for a Conoco gas station is visible to the left of the hotel.
"Otis and Minnie Ping bought the Nogal Hotel in 1923. The Pings expanded the commercial operation by adding two wings out back and several detached motel units. Minnie Ping was an ambitious businesswoman, and Otis was the handyman who did the work. The Pings eventually installed a gas station, featuring a glass-bubble...
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"Where Frank Figgins works in Portland, Oregon". (caption from photo)
No other information provided. It appears to be a lumber yard; there are stacks of lumber and logs and accompanying machinery. Workers can be seen in the building to the left.
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Business card for the Eagle Valley Enterprise during Howard and Marilla McCain's ownership, 1947 to 1972.
Eagle Valley Enterprise, Dec. 30, 1999: ""Ade" Reyolds...remained active as The Enterprise publisher until his death on Oct. 10, 1949.
His daughter, Marilla Reynolds McCain, had been on the receiving end of practical training in the newspaper business from the time she was 7 years old. At the time of her father's death, Mrs. McCain was serving...
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Work on the stablilization of the Rock Creek Stage Stop. Companies involved: John Dobell Construction, Bill Irvine Construction, Jan Kaminski-Mountain Architecture Design Group, HRC! Volunteers.
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"This well constructed log building is located on the original Gore Road, between Toponas and Kremmling. Called the Rock Creek Ranch Road House, it was built by Jim Gates about 1900 and served as a stage stop with rooms and meals for travelers. Both floors had a porch running the length of the building. The Gates family operated it until about 1906 and then left it and the furniture which was soon stolen. About 1915 Dr. Henderson, a chiropractor,...
