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Photo postcard of Donaldson & Howard Wholesale Fruit Commission Company truck, Denver, CO, ca. 1909.

Post author:jcamenga
Post published:September 4, 2022
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This photo shows a load of fruit being trucked to a customer by Donaldson & Howard employees. I don’t know the make of this truck, but its covered and enclosed…

J.S. and Edith Penfold’s businesses in Fort Lupton (#1 of 3): Service station, restaurant, grocery and motel, photo postcard, ca. 1926 – 1930.

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Post published:August 3, 2022
Post category:Fort Lupton
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This view looking northwest across Denver Avenue at 9th Street shows the businesses belonging to James Stevenson and Edith Belle (Wilcox) Penfold. Their businesses included the filling station on the…

J.S. and Edith Penfold’s businesses in Fort Lupton (#2 of 3): J.S. and Edith in front of their businesses on the northwest corner of 9th & Denver Avenue, photo postcard, ca. 1926 - 1930.

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Post published:August 3, 2022
Post category:Fort Lupton
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J.S. and Edith pose next to their root beer stand in front of their “Quick Lunch” establishment, grocery store and “Cottage Camp” motel. Note the nice latticework entrance to the…

J.S. and Edith Penfold's businesses in Fort Lupton (#3 of 3): A view from the north, photo postcard postmarked November 1, 1931.

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Post published:August 3, 2022
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This photo views J.S and Edith Penfold’s businesses from the north as old Highway 85 becomes Denver Avenue. The sign in the foreground indicates they had a Willys-Knight Overland car…

Welcome to my blog of old Colorado photos. I’ve always loved old photos, and given my interest in history, it was probably inevitable that I would be drawn to the idea of collecting old images of the Colorado town where I grew up, i.e., Fort Lupton. Fort Lupton sits on the South Platte River, about halfway between Denver and Greeley, at the western edge of the Great Plains.

I grew up feeling more connected to the eastern half of the state than to the western half. Maybe that was because I knew the plains were just out the back door of Fort Lupton, so to speak, or simply because I was more familiar with the names of towns to the east. So, a few years ago, when I decided to expand my collecting beyond Fort Lupton, I leaned east. Since then, though, I’ve gotten the bug for expanding my collection to the entire state. You'll find that, in its current state, my blog is weighted toward images of Fort Lupton, eastern and northern Colorado, but that will shift as I steadily add images from the Colorado Rockies and western slope.

I hope you enjoy my blog as much as I enjoy building and tending to it. Please feel free to leave comments!

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Jack’s Old Photos of Colorado

Blog

PEOPLE AND PLACES

Jack’s Old Photos of Colorado

Blog

PEOPLE AND PLACES

Calhan, CO

Jack’s Old Photos
of Colorado

Jack’s Old Photos
of Colorado