Salida Centennial Photo Collection
Salida, Colorado celebrated its centennial in 1980. The Salida Centennial Committee compiled this collection of old photographs to help preserve the history of Salida and the surrounding areas. Photos were donated from: • Frank Thomson • Donna Nevens • Salida Museum • Alice Chinn • Salida Fire Department • Josephine Soukup (Kratky) • Ernest Brownson • Alta Proctor • Janice Pennington • Dick Dixon
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- 4th of July on F Street
- 4th of July celebration on F Street in Salida, Colorado. Josephine Soukup Collection.
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- A Gathering of Women
- Women are gathered at an unknown event. Nellie Ellis Collection.
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- A Wheelbarrow Full of Silver Dollars
- A patron of the Salida Building and Loan paid off a mortgage with this wheelbarrow load of silver dollars. Building and Loan officers (J. Ford White, C. H. Kelleher, President, Theo. M. Jacobs, Alice Chinn, Secretary/Treasurer) are shown on the way to deposit the silver dollars at First National Bank. Alice Chinn Collection.
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- Albert Hanks
- Albert Hanks. Haley-Bratton Collection.
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- Alberta Hanks
- Alberta Hanks, taken at 324 E 2nd. St. Haley-Bratton Collection.
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- Alpine Park Lion
- Alpine Park, 4th & F Streets, in Salida, Colorado. The Alpine Park Lions were carved by Abran Marchi. Josephine Soukup Collection.
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- Arthur Thompson and Emil Bruderlin
- Arthur Thompson, smelter assistant superintendent, and Emil Bruderlin, structural engineer, perch on the lip of the new smokestack at Smeltertown during the topping-out ceremony. The large material bucket and one leg of the hoisting windlass show how materials reached the top. The wooden construction floor is a plug inserted inside the 17 foot diameter of the smokestack mouth. Bruderlin sits on a stack of bricks used for the last course of masonry. Frank Thomson Collection.
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- Arthur Thompson and his crew on top of the Ohio & Colorado Smelter Smokestack
- 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 day and the shadow of a woman’s hat is, Miss Roney was likely the photographer who recorded the event. She exposed four or five negatives that were later given to Arthur Thompson, who passed them to his son, Frank, of Poncha Springs. Frank Thomson Collection.
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- Arthur Thompson at Manful's Barbershop
- Despite a schedule that included overseeing construction of the big Ohio and Colorado smokestack in 1917, getting married, and being promoted to superintendent at the smelter, Arthur Theodore Thompson (in the chair at the right) took time for a shave and a haircut at Manful’s Barbershop at 109 F Street in Salida. Frank Thomson Collection.
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- At the Brick Yard
- Major fires, two years apart spurred Salidans into a spate of brick construction that eventually saved the town from more devastating damage. A couple of brick yards were in operation before the 1886 fire, but within a year after the 1888 conflagration, there were at least four in production. Clay, sand and water are stirred into a stiff mud before it is packed into molds. It was repetitive, back-wrenching work, but it was lucrative for many years. George and Charles Lunnon are back near the kiln, Ben Lunnon is at the right, and Charles Schuth is seated next to the mixer. Pearl Lunnon Collection.
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- Automobile Touring in Salida, Colorado
- Automobile touring in Salida, Colorado. Josephine Soukup Collection.
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- Automobile Wreck
- Automobile wreck in an unknown location. Josephine Soukup Collection.