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Sanborn photo postcard [W-1116] looking south down Broadway St., Eagle, Colorado, showing downtown buildings. Highway 40 sign in intersection. Texaco station on left.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Joe Fear helping a customer at his Conoco Station in Vail, Colorado.
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Front view of Lucero's Hwy. 24 Liquors, with gas pumps removed. Lucero's Hwy. 24 Liquor Store & Self Service Gas station opened in 1974. The gas station was closed in 2007 and the liquor store closed in 2008. Tony Lucero [81 years old in 2009], proprietor, also worked at the Climax Mine, Leadville, for twenty years.
Article on the opening of the liquor store: Eagle Valley Enterprise, Oct. 26, 1974 p.5.
Calendar from this service station is accessioned...
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A closeup of the Conoco Station on Hwy 6 with two gas pumps and garage.
"Gas stations were full-service in those days, with uniformed attendants who offered to check oil, wash windshields, and pump gas. This Conoco station was location on Highway 6." -- Kathy Heicher, Early Eagle, p.110
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Avery's Texaco station in Dotsero, with gas pump out front. There is a kerosene pump next to the ice house, where 100 pounds of ice cost 50 cents. Gas price of the day was 14 cents per gallon. Advertisements for Nehi and ice cream are on the station buiding.
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A view of the old Colorado Midland Depot, Main Street, Basalt, used as a garage and information bureau. Snow on roof and ground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Raymond Bearden standing by a gasoline pump at the family gas station in Burns. Herman Newquist's Volkswagen in background with passenger door open. Dog sitting on pavement.
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1900s: Old rooming house and restaurant, Basalt, Colorado, next to Conoco station with gas pumps.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The Conoco Station on Hwy 6 with two gas pumps.
"Gas stations were full-service in those days, with uniformed attendants who offered to check oil, wash windshields, and pump gas. This Conoco station was location on Highway 6." -- Kathy Heicher, Early Eagle, p.110
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The Mayor of Copper Spur, three women, two girls and a man standing in front of a gas pump at the post office/store. Signs on building. Appears to be a warm time of year.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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From L to R, Buzz Jackson, Sutton, and Tom Jackson standing in from of Sutton's satation at "Hell's Gate'," Sweetwater, Colorado. Part of the Conoco sign is visible at the top of the photo: "packed with extra miles Gasoline." Sutton and Jackson are wearing hats. [Later the station burned down and Sutton was burned; it was felt that his wife died soon after as a result.]
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]...
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Broadway in Eagle in the early 1940s, not yet paved. Koonce Chevrolet is on the right and the Maytag store is on the left. Automobiles are parked along the side of the road and one is driving toward the camera.
13) Nogal-Ping Hotel
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The Nogal-Ping Hotel at the corner of Capitol Street and Highway 6, showing the cabins added by the Pings.
"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 pump. Their son Leonard...
14) Broadway Street
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Looking south on Broadway Street, Eagle, Colorado. Texaco gas station in left midground. Man running down sidewalk toward camera.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Joseph H. Fear standing in front of his business, the Holy Cross Garage, in Red Cliff, Colorado. Christine Fear, his daughter, is in the automobile on which he is leaning. Christine graduated from high school in 1957 and worked as her dad's bookkeeper.
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A photo of the corner of Highway 6 and 5th Streets showing a car dealership sign over gas pumps. The photo was taken October 1955.
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The front of Fear's Standard Service station in Red Cliff, Colorado. Gas pumps are visible at left and there is snow on the ground.
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1910-1915: View of Water Street at street level. Red Cliff Garage sign visible in mid-ground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
