Real estate appraisal card. 120 W. 1st Street, lot 23, block 5, in Salida, Colorado.
This building was erected between 1926 and 1929. The parcel is vacant in a 1926 photograph of Salida taken from Tenderfoot Mountain, while this building appears on the 1929 Sanborn fire insurance map. The building is addressed as 122 A and B on the 1929 map and as 120 and 124 on the 1945 map.
The 1927-28 city directory showed the restaurant of Mrs. N.E. Doering at 120 W. 1st Street and Alf Nicastro's shoe repair shop at 124. By 1930-31, Mrs. Jackie Gardner's restaurant was housed in 120, while the Sanitary Barber Shop was at 124. Thomas S. and Paul P. Miller were proprietors of the barber shop.
The Zingone Tailor Shop (Charles Zingone, tailor and owner) was listed at 120 in 1951. Number 124 was not listed. Robert Nevens, an attorney, had his office in number 120 in 1961. Number 124 housed the Williams Barber Shop, Paul P. Williams, owner.
History Colorado's Architectural Inventory Forms have more information and are available at the Salida Library.
