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The front of Minturn Mercantile. There is a gas pump on the right. People are gathered under the awning in front of the shop next-door. The street next to the sidewalk is dug up.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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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John Kavanaugh and Blanche Wyatt [Kavanaugh] (sitting on fender) with two girls; all are posed in front of a vehicle. In the background is an IGA store in Minturn, Colorado. A Coca Cola sign is visible on the building. A gasoline pump is in the left background.
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Looking down on the Denver & Rio Grande W. roundhouse at Minturn, with the town at back on the right, sometime in the 1930s.
In 1928, a new 120-foot turntable was set in place, replacing the old 100-foot table installed in 1912. The older turntable could not accommodate the 3600-series simple-articulated locomotives assigned to the area. The turntable and roundhouse dominated Minturn
5) Mercantile
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John E. Kavanaugh, 10 or 12 years old, standing between two men in a store, possibly in Minturn. John was born in Salida, Colorado, December 6, 1910. His parents were Henry O. Anderson and Hilma Lindgren Anderson. His name was later changed from Anderson to Kavanaugh when he was adopted by his mother's second husband, William "Billy" Kavanaugh, an engineer on the D&RG Railroad.
Many products are visible, such as bananas hanging in the center...
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Wagon loading/unloading goods in front of the Minturn Store. Several children, women and men are on the boardwalk in front of the store. Tent with sign ("Photographs") in between the store and the house on the right.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Blanche Wyatt Kavanaugh in a long evening dress standing in front of highway signs in Minturn, Colorado. Under a sign for Colorado-U.S. 40 south: Eagle 29 , Glenwood 63, Grand Junction 15?. There is a barber shop in the shadows at the left, a hotel behind the U.S. 40 sign, and a restaurant in the right background. To Blanche's left is a bridge with the notice: load limit 3 tons including vehicle, stock limit 10 head of cattle 20 sheep, speed...
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The church, built in 1906 on the corner of Main St. and Toledo [191 Main St.], served the Presbyterian denomination for 96 years. In 2002, the congregation built a larger church 4 miles west of Minturn. This older church has a high-ceilinged interior, original high-peaked windows and almost century old light fixtures. Two of the six original lights date from the early 1900's and came from the old county seat in Redcliff while the other 4 were made...
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Minturn's main street in May--June 1957. Minturn Mercantile store is on the right, Williams Motel on the left. The main street is packed and oiled dirt.
The photo is a good example of an ink caption bleeding through the photograph (examine upper left).
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Coleman truck parked in front of the Battle Mountain Trading Post, Minturn, Colorado, May 2004. The truck has antlers piled on the bed.
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Minturn Mercantile Company in 1957. Automobile parked in front of the store.
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People posing on the boardwalk in front of St. Elmo Mercantile Co., Minturn.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Harvesting ice at Pando. Workers on the right are pulling ice chunks to the bank with gaffs. A pair of tongs is in the foreground.
According to the Assessment Roll 1930 Eagle County, the Western Railways Ice Co. (Pando), in School Taxation District Mitchell 2, owned the following, located on railroad property in Minturn:
1 boarding house (18' x 100'), 2 bunk houses (12' x 50'), 1 bunk house (12' x 16'), 1 tool house, 1 boiler house, 1 machine shed...
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The owner of the Trading Post and Ellis "Bearcat" Bearden (on right), astride the buffalo at the Battle Mountain Trading Post in Minturn.
