Early day Grand Junction [Duplicate]
Photograph -- Black-and-White Photograph
Identifier:
2004.44.510Description
Black -and-white photograph with a matte border, with the bookcliffs in the background. There are several structures including houses and farm lots that take up the rest of the picture. Several of the buildings have markers with identification on the back. For example, the Opera House, the Methodist Church, the National Bank, City Hall, the Post Office, Grand Pipe, the Electric Building Plant, the Baptist Church, and the Presbyterian Church.Back of photo reads;
Taken from the Railroad yards, some distance west of south Fifth Street looking north-east. The old stand=pipe at "7" was G.J. water supply, stood at N.E. Corner Seventh and Ouray Ave. calling my attention to this pipe and it was tilting, so we rode our bicycles up to see it fall over. Nos. "4" and "4" are the old Lowell and Franklin School Buildings between Fifth and Sixth streets and Rood and White Ave. I went to school in grades and High School in each of these two buildings I believe Lowell stood on Ute Ave across from the old city park, between fourth and fifth streets. Many a theater show was shown there in early days. I recall seeing "taming of the Shrew" Houdini and other famous magicians on a lecture course held there. No. 10 listed "Presbyterian Church" I believe it burned down one Sunday morning soon after turn of the century and the more modern church was built on the same site.