These photos were shared by Marilyn Betts Crabb on our Facebook page on March 21, 2021.
I am including the subsequent questions and conversations regarding these photos.
Wetmore CO- main st-early 1900’s
Photos shared by Marilyn Betts Crabb
Can anyone ID the buildings in the photos other than the Wetmore Community Church in the top photo and Post Office building?
Is the building on the right of the bottom photo the Creamery?
Kathy West
Going up the street, on the right the first house was where Kempner’s lived. Next is the house where Marty Eisert now lives – the people I remember from the 1950’s were the Jones’s. Next is the Cream station or Creamery is what most people called it. Next is the church. I cannot remember who lived in the little house next to the church before Galen DeGani and his first wife, Joy lived there in the early 70’s. It was then purchased by the church and used for Sunday School as well as Ladies Aid meetings, wedding and bridal showers. On the left side of the street – the man on the horse is in front of the grocery store, next to the store was the pool haul and the house with the car in front was a 4 family dwelling and is the house my folks bought in 1943 and where I still live.
Jim Walters
From this angle in the upper photo I believe that the Dr.Walters residence/Post office is further around the curve and next to the house with the automobile parked in front of it….it can’t be seen. Also in the very center of the photo just to the right of the second pole I can see the small square structure we call the Creamery. Correct me if I’m wrong. The Hardscrabble Creek flooded many times and came down mainstreet, eventually lowering it by several feet. I wish these photos had a date on them.
Jim Walters
Does anyone here know what year electricity was first brought to Wetmore..? I think I recall my Grandfather (Fred Walters) telling me it was 1946. I know that when we still lived in the Post Office/House in the 50’s there was still the Acetylene gas generator system in the ground next to the house that provided gas to some of the lights in the house and to the Store/Post Office in the front. I know there were times I could smell the gas and Fred would just shrug an say…”Yeah I gotta find that leak one of these days.” I really can’t believe the house never just blew up. Anyhow those telephone poles in the upper photo made me wonder about the electricity.
Margaret Stiles Storm
Look at the church in the top photo and the snow in JUNE… Love them Marilyn! Thanks for sharing.
DeDe Sproul
I believe this is the creamery!!
