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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.
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Tom Deviney and the family dog. Tom ran a grocery store in Red Cliff. The Clooneys owned the grocery building which was later owned by Mrs. Holland.
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Ralph Belding standing at the Eagle Depot, 1918. Belding owned "Ralph's Store" in Eagle, Colorado.
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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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Main Street in Gilman after a heavy snowfall. The license plate on the first car may read 1934. Storefronts show business names and products.
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Front: "Main Office E.Z.;" verso: "Mine office at Gilman, Healy's Grocery to the right" E.Z. noted above was "Empire Zinc Co., formed in 1902 to search for and develop zinc mines in the west. The Eagle mine, operated by the Empire Zinc Division of the New Jersey Zinc Company at Gilman, Colorado, thirty miles west of the Continental Divide, was acquired in 1915." -- The First Hundred Years of the New Jersey Zinc Company, p.29 New Jersey Zinc...
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The Odd Fellows Lodge was built on 2d Street in 1900. "The first story was used for a grocery store. It was run by John Miller and Mac Millan at first. It changed hands many times. Dan Dentor, Mr. Lucker, A. F. Carlson, and Don Lupton were some of the proprietors that had charge of it. It finally was made over into a dance hall which it is now." -- History of Eagle County, 1940, p. 242
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Katie, Bonnie and JoAnne Deviney, posed in a yard, the family of grocer Tom Deviney.
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Employees standing in front of the Anderson Store building in Red Cliff, Colorado, on March 23, 1940. At far left is Ronnie Dump. Roy Marfitano is second from left. The young lady standing next to Roy is Earline Paquette. The 1940 Ford delivery truck, "Carl G. Anderson, Groceries, Meats, Dry Goods," is parked to the left of the employees. The building was on the east side of Eagle St. and the very east end of Water Street. It had a number of...
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Santa Claus seated on a truck in front of Clooney's Store in 1935. Nina Baldauf and John Caddy are on the truck. Oscar Meyer is one of the men next to the truck. Children are grouped around the truck and there are people in the apartment above Clooney's looking down on the scene. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Sisters Myret Beal (L) and Florence King, standing in front of the Red & White Foods store in Red Cliff, Colorado.
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Moreen and Demp Perkins with their daughters, Joan and Brenda. "We lived in Redcliff for 10 years then we moved to Rapid City S.D. and have been here 56 1/2 years."
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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.
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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
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c.1904: Front/side view of the J. P. Oleson Store, Gypsum, Colorado. The two story building has a side stairway going up to the second story, with several curtained windows and a door at that level. The front of the building has a square, fake facade with two windows upstairs, two larger windows and a doorway downstairs. Signage in the downstairs windows reads: "J. P. Oleson Dry Goods, Hats & Shoes," and "J. P. Oleson Groceries." There are...
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Main Street in Gilman during a winter in the early 1930's. The Model A at right has a license plate number 44-552. Model As were first produced in 1927.
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Crane at Gilman power plant moving transformers. The building in the left background housed the post office, mercantile, and grocery store.
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A stereoscopic view of Star Grocery, a grocery store tent located along the Eagle River. Taken in the 1870s-1880s. It is unknown where on the Eagle River Star Grocery was located, nor is the history of Star Grocery known. A description of the Eagle River was included on the verso of the view: The Eagle River is a tributary of the Grand. Its source is in the Tennessee Pass, which has an elevation of 10,418 feet. Its course is through pine groves...