Re: Battered Boards in Crested Butte - 1952
| November 18, 2018 06:56PM |
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Jim Marlett Wrote:
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> I see those beat up top boards plain as day.
Me too! So do I -
Although I do have to squint my tired old eyes just a little. Here's my crude copy of the original photo with the hillside containing the ovens – but not the battered boards – darkened just a bit using PhoamoShop Ailments so that there's less confusion between the boards themselves and some of the pale rocks behind:
- Roosso
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> I see those beat up top boards plain as day.
Although I do have to squint my tired old eyes just a little. Here's my crude copy of the original photo with the hillside containing the ovens – but not the battered boards – darkened just a bit using PhoamoShop Ailments so that there's less confusion between the boards themselves and some of the pale rocks behind:
- Roosso
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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