{"id":780,"date":"2018-03-12T19:47:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T01:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berthoudhistoricalsociety.org\/?p=780"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:12:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:12:50","slug":"blog-post-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berthoudhistoricalsociety.org\/ja\/blog-post-3\/","title":{"rendered":"\u30d0\u30b7\u30e7\u30fc\u30eb\uff06\u30ec\u30a4\u30d3\u30eb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"780\" class=\"elementor elementor-780\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-53e0c14e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"53e0c14e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7e3a1f5b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7e3a1f5b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u306e <strong>Bashor &amp; Wray Building<\/strong> at the southeast corner of 4th Street and Mountain Avenue in Berthoud was built in 1915. The firm of Bashor &amp; Wray sold Ford cars, trucks and tractors at the dawn of the automobile age. In April 1915 the Berthoud newspaper reported that Bashor &amp; Wray had <em>\u201csold thirty-one Fords since October 1, 1914.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p>In 1912 Berthoud\u2019s Emery Bashor (1884-1963) became northern Colorado\u2019s second authorized Ford dealer. A short time later he added Ed Wray (1883-1928) as his business partner. Wray was a self-educated mechanic who already held patents for a wheat measuring machine and what the local newspaper described as <em>\u201ca contrivance for setting pins in a bowling alley.\u201d<\/em> In the 1920s Wray also patented a two-way plow for the Fordson tractor sold by the Bashor &amp; Wray Ford agency.<\/p><p>Bashor &amp; Wray thrived in Berthoud to the extent that the firm opened branches in Johnstown, Mead and Akron. Following Wray\u2019s unexpected death in 1928, Bashor sold the business to George McIntosh of Greeley.<\/p><p>The front of the Bashor &amp; Wray building originally paralleled Mountain Avenue. In July 1936 the <em>\u30d9\u30eb\u30b5\u30a6\u30c9\u901f\u5831<\/em> noted that the building front was being rebuilt on a slant when it reported,<em> \u201cContractor John A. Bell has a force of men at work at the Mountain Avenue garage this week, tearing away the front and part of the west side wall, making a drive-in service station.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p>Today the front of the building remains at an angle to Mountain Avenue even though the drive-in service station disappeared decades ago. Since 1936 the Bashor &amp; Wray building has been occupied by the<em> Mountain Avenue Garage, Colorado Potato Flake Mfg. Co., Modern Farm Service, Straightway Market,<\/em> the <em>Berthoud Candy Shop<\/em>, and <em>Picture This Custom Framing and Interiors<\/em>.<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>Mark French<\/em><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bashor &amp; Wray Building at the southeast corner of 4th Street and Mountain Avenue in Berthoud was built in 1915. 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