Broadway Street, Eagle, Colorado
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"Colorado's big game season has been postponed a week, and ... will open Oct. 24 on the Western Slope and run thru Nov. 9. Postponement was at the request of federal and state land use agencies, who state the fire hazard is more acute this year than last year, and at an extremely high point." -- Eagle Valley Enterprise Oct. 8, 1953 p.1
The line of hunters trying to get elk licenses validated stretched for quite a way in front of the Eagle County...
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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.]
3) Broadway
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Photo postcard looking up Broadway (the main street) in Eagle, Colorado, north toward Castle Peak in the backround. The Eagle theatre is on the far left.
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"Along with the move of the county seat came an obligation to build a modern county courthouse. Designed by renowned architect J. Francis Pillsbury, the Eagle County Courthouse was constructed in 1932 at a cost of $60,000. The sheriff's office was on the basement floor along with living quarters for the jailer. The jail and courtroom were on the third floor (note the bars on the window at leaft). -- Kathy Heicher, Early Eagle p.82
6) Broadway
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Businesses on Broadway, Eagle, Colorado, in the 1920s. Several automobiles are parked in front of the buildings. The street is unpaved.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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A large group poses for a photograph on Broadway Street in Eagle. The Texaco Station is in the background with a gas pump (center, below the "Motor Oil" sign) along with houses and a car. The garage door, on the left, is open.
8) Min Sharp
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"Min Sharp stands in front of the snow banks on the east side of Broadway in Eagle. Photo was likely taken in December 1960. Notice the stores in the background. From left to right, Eagle Liquors, Sharp's Pool Hall, Stanley's Cash Grocery and Lieber's Cafe." -- Those Were the Days, Eagle Valley Enterprise Jan. 8, 2004, p.2
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A group of men examine the aftermath of the Eagle Valley Enterprise building fire. St. Mary's Cathoic Church is in the background (belltower visible).
"A devastating fire on January 13, 1932, destroyed the newspaper office on Broadway. The fire started in an adjacent dry-cleaning shop and wiped out several main street businesses. George Carlow sounded the fire alarm, but the town's limited fire equipment malfunctioned in the freezing termperatures....
10) Broadway
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Broadway, the main street through Eagle, showing several homes. There is a sidewalk and a fire hydrant is visible in the foreground.
11) Broadway
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Broadway in Eagle. The building on the right was built by the First National Bank of Eagle County. The two story half of the building was occupied by general merchandise stores (F. Hugus and Co.; later, the Lewis store); the one story side by the bank.
The line of wagons and carriages may be a parade.
Same as 1991.001.046 Photo only scanned once into Past Perfect.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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A slightly different perspective of the aftermath of the Eagle Valley Enterprise building fire. The E.E. Glenn store is visible at left and the billiard parlor is on the right.
"A devastating fire on January 13, 1932, destroyed the newspaper office on Broadway. The fire started in an adjacent dry-cleaning shop and wiped out several main street businesses. George Carlow sounded the fire alarm, but the town's limited fire equipment malfunctioned...
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Eagle County Courthouse, 551 Broadway, constructed in 1932. Forty years later, the trees have obstructed the front of the building Art Deco building.
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The U.S. Post Office in Eagle Colorado, barbershop and drug store. They are located in the Dice Building, built in 1904, on the west side of Broadway. There is an automobile parked on the street and some men are sitting on the stairs at the far left.
From the collection of Robert Thomas DeFoor who coached the Gypsum High School football team in the 1920s. He was a school teacher and pharmacist. He married Lydia Gretchen Doll, who died in Denver...
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[5,000th image added to the collection]
A view of Broadway St. in Eagle, taken at the intersection with 3rd St., looking north. There is a streetlight post in the middle of the intersection with "Keep Right" written at the base. Castle Peak is on the horizon. A directional sign to U.S. Highway 24 is at the right at midground
On the left, the Dice building [2 story brick] is the closest building on 2d St. At the northern end, the Koonce Chevrolet...
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West side of Broadway in Eagle. The Dice Building is at the far left. Sam Lemon is standing at right. Inscription says "Len on horse."
17) Town of Eagle
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The town of Eagle taken from the Eby Creek area. Highway 6 runs through the photo, with the major main street, Broadway, at center, dead-ending into Chester Mayer's ranch (now the Bull Pasture and Eagle Ranch subdivisions). Chambers Ranch is at the lower right corner, the big white barn now housing the Eagle County Historical Society Museum. The Eagle River runs from left to right with the railroad bridge over the river at midground. Brush Creek...
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A group of men examine the aftermath of the Eagle Valley Enterprise building fire. The Dice building is at midfield.
"A devastating fire on January 13, 1932, destroyed the newspaper office on Broadway. The fire started in an adjacent dry-cleaning shop and wiped out several main street businesses. George Carlow sounded the fire alarm, but the town's limited fire equipment malfunctioned in the freezing termperatures. The building was a complete loss....
19) Mrs. Morgan
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Mrs. Morgan standing in front of house at 3rd St. and Broadway, Eagle, Colorado
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"After a 1933 fire destroyed several downtown buildings, the next business to build in that space was the Independent Lumber Company. The lumber company moved to Chambers Avenue (Across the Eagle River) in the early 1980s. The Eagle Town Hall is now located on the corner where this building once stood." -- Kathy Heicher, Early Eagle p.110
