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Unidentified workers who built the 365-foot smokestack grin happily as they pose with their boss, assistant superintendent Arthur Thompson, atop the stack November 14, 1917, during a simple topping out ceremony held that day. Thompson placed a silver dollar in the wet mortar of the last few bricks. Town clerk Bertie Roney, the first woman to the top of the stack, was hoisted in the materials bucket. Because she isn’t in any of the photos taken that...
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The Knights of Pythias hosted a Grand Lodge Session in early September 1890. Here is a photo of the Knights of Pythias Band on E. 1st and E Streets – taken September 3, 1890:
• Comstock – Solo B flat
• Logan – first B flat
• Kirkbride – first B flat
• Bogue – first tenor
• Johnston – 2nd tenor
• Gilliam – 2nd alto
• Porchard – 1st alto
• Smith – baritone
• Motz – tuba
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A. B. Stein went to work at the Salida smelter as a boiler maker’s helper. Over his left shoulder can be seen two chimneys of the blast furnaces. The camera view was looking to the west.
R.M. Stein Collection.
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Union Pacific Railway Engine No. 1473. Photo taken by John Kratky.
Josephine Soukup Collection.
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Using space left vacant by the 1888 fire, Charles Webster Crews and R. H. Beggs constructed this building in 1900 as a branch of their Pueblo store. The company, founded in 1882 in Leadville, went out of business in 2000 after closure of the Salida store – the last of three.
John Ophus Collection.
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Located at the west corner of G and Second streets, a lumber yard had been established by V. C. Davenport, with a railroad siding in the rear. A load of wood roof shingles was ready for delivery to a new home site. The fenced area (at left) was a livery stable that became the base of operations for E. G. Hellman’s Turret & Whitehorn Stage Line in 1903. Steve Frazee Collection.
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Construction of the D Street suspension bridge was an early priority of the Denver & Rio Grande because so many of its shop workers and yard hands lived on that side of town. The bridge shortened their walk to work.
On May 30, 1904, over a thousand people were milling about downtown Salida for the Memorial Day celebration and 20-30 were on the footbridge, watching the festivities upstream.
Everyone on the bridge leaned on the upstream side of...
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H Street School class photo, September 23, 1896. The H Street School was renamed Longfellow in 1920.
Front Row:
• Neil Ramsey
• Oliver Jones
• Frank Fox
• William Woodside
• George Asher
• John Kilgore
• Murray Gallagher
• Clyde Spain
• Ed Owen
• George Phillips
• Gel Hathaway
Second Row:
• George Burgess
• Irene Hallock
• Trix Brown
• Leona Hunter
• ...
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Brick making was often a family business that included children, parents, and maybe a hired hand or two. Sun-dried bricks were stacked, 20,000-50,000 at a time, creating their own kiln. Plastered with mud to limit air, a fire was kindled and carefully monitored to harden bricks.
Janice Pennington Collection.
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Late 19th century middle class living is evident in this Salida home, believed to be that of local photographer N. W. Meigs. The family plays cards amid busy decorations that include chair drapes, stacked pillows, heavy framed photographs and dark wood furnishings.
John Ophus Collection.
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Automobile touring with a view of Garfield, Colorado.
Josephine Soukup Collection.
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Wet mortar, a trowel and unfinished brick-work in the foreground show the last stage of construction November 14, 1917. Southwest of the new stack is the old stack continuing to spew smoke over the valley. It was torn down a short time after the new smokestack was completed. The view from 365 feet up gives a good idea of the layout of D&RG and company rails.
Frank Thomson Collection.
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This train wreck occurred January 23, 1918 near Pando, Colorado. The engineer, Fred C. Graham, and the brakeman, Roy Foster Leininger, were killed. Leininger’s body was buried under tons of wreckage and crushed beyond recognition.
Nellie Ellis Collection.
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Photo of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Depot and the Monte Cristo Hotel, taken by John Kratky, who lived in Salida between 1912-1920.
Josephine Soukup Collection.
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Construction rubble is heaped in the open space beyond the horses hitched to Salida’s new chemical and ladder truck about 1903. Unidentified firemen wear new dress uniforms, and harness on the team is complete with fancy decorations and feather plumes attached to the top of the bridles. When the town council outgrew its first offices, members bought Fraternity Hall at 140 E St. and moved the new fire equipment in downstairs and took the upstairs...
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Built after the 1888 fire, the J.H. Collins building at the corner of West Second and F Streets was one of the most impressive in the downtown district. The two segments at the right were razed in the 1980’s to make room for a parking lot.
Steve Frazee Collection.
99) St. Clair Hotel
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Four stories capped with a corner tower made the St. Clair Hotel the tallest building in Salida when it opened for business June 6, 1890, and there are still none that equal or exceed it. The building, located on the northeast corner of First and E Streets, was 75-by-90 feet, included 68 sleeping rooms (many with their own bathrooms) and had a balcony on two sides. There was a fine dining room. Construction cost $45,000, in addition to $8,000 in oak...
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Construction of the machine shops, dated August 28, 1923.
Harry Williams Collection.
