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The Family home of Theodore Stremme in Gypsum, Colorado. The well-attended buildings are surrounded by a white picket fence.
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Ruby Dump and Mena Warren sit on the sidewalk of Water Street in Red Cliff, Colorado. The house behind them belonged to Ollie Meyer and is now the location of the Green Bridge Inn. The photo was taken sometime around 1947. There is a truck or wagon parked on the left side of the photo, with a grass lot and backyard fence behind the girls.
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Serena, daughter of Willis Staup, visits with her with children, Sharen and Johnny, at Willis' home in Gypsum. Photo is dated August 1958.
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Emma Conner talks about the lives of her parents and grandparents, Mesa County pioneers. She speaks about her early schooling at the Franklin School and work in her grandmother’s boardinghouse. She details restrictions that were put into place during the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918. She discusses the railroad occupations of her father and husbands, and a rail accident that killed her second husband. She talks about downtown Grand Junction’s dirt...
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"House where they live" (caption from photo). Evidence from the photo album suggests this was Birdie & Frank Figgins' home.
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A man stands in a jumpsuit, possibly for work, in front of a house. To the left, there is a sign that says "Garage for rent" in the window. The house is one in a line, as can be seen in the right background.
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During a panel discussion of the Mesa County Historical Society, Kenneth Baird discusses the settlement and incorporation of Grand Junction, the creation of the Grand Junction Town Company, early city government, town building, and early municipal ordinances. Professor Don Mackendrick talks about James W. Bucklin’s draft of a new city charter in 1910, which established a commission form of government. He mentions progressive reforms that put the...
