The Avon Hotel at the corner of Blair and 10th streets still advertises great rates, with snow-covered Anvil Mountain in the background. Photo: Mark Esper
Way Back!
From the Nov. 17, 1894 edition of the Silverton Standard: A BOLD HOLD-UP.
At about ten minutes after midnight on Saturday morning last, three masked men entered the Hub saloon and ordered everyone present to throw up their hands. Only a few people were present at the time, Louis Morris the bartender, three men working at the roulette wheel, William Snyder, John Parks and Dick Griffith, and a few by…