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Man and girl standing on the boardwalk under the roof overhang of the Owens Store (the original Avon Store) in Avon, Colorado. Advertising signs: "Hills Bros. Coffee," chocolates, visible. Screen door is open; front door closed. Could be either snowing or raining. The store was located 100 feet west of the Avon Road on the north side of Highway 6. It was relocated and restored to the Eagle museum center in 1996. Date is noted as Oct. 15, 1928.
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Bivans' ledger, Avon Store, spine and front cover.
"In the town of Avon, at the mouth of Beaver Creek, Stephen Bivans kept a store in a single-story log building. When Bivans left for Utah in 1908 Charles and Esther Adams, from Pennsylvania, arrived to take over the business." -- Beaver Creek by June Simonton, p. 44.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Avon Amusement Center on left side of Hwy 6. Building was destroyed in c1948 when Hwy 6 was widened. Avon General Store on right (view is looking south to Beaver Creek) Store destroyed c1980. Photo is taken just south of the old Avon bridge in about the same location as photo 1986.001.161.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]