Aspen might be known today for its world-class skiing and high-end designer shops, but the chic mountain town has a nearly 150-year roller coaster history of rags to riches. BlaykeRoznowski has these 7 interesting facts you may not know about Aspen:
ASPEN, Colo. — During peak seasons, as many as 30,000 people descend upon the Aspen streets lined with two-story historic brick buildings that house high-end designer shops like Valentino, Balenciaga and Dior.What’s made Aspen what it is today? Denver7 took a trip to the Aspen Historical Society for a visit with Nina Gabianelli, the vice president of education and programs, to learn about the Roaring Fork Valley’s storied past. Here are .
“It was quickly renamed Aspen — rebranded because of the trees for better marketing possibilities, for finding investors basically,” Gabianelli said. said. “We had mothers and wives who had the role in the Victorian culture to maintain the moral fiber of their family, right? So they established a Literary Society, a Glee Club, a Sunday School in tents in that first winter. So we have grown with families, religion, culture, education as part of our community from the beginning.”
The U.S. had been purchasing the silver at an inflated price even though it wasn’t backed up by anything. Once the country realized that was no longer working, the Sherman Silver Purchase Act was repealed in 1893. Though the majority of Aspen’s economy had been based around silver, there was also a prominence of ranching that began in the Roaring Fork Valley around the same time as the silver boom in the 1880s. The Homestead Act allowed people to come out West, pick out 160 acres of land and work it for five years before it became theirs for free. A large immigrant population was attracted by the land prospect, traveling from Slovenia, Ireland, Germany and Northern Italy.
“Not on horseback, not using tanks, not using trucks, but skiing, using dog sleds. So they learned from the Inuit people how to do that,” Gabianelli said. In 1939, Elizabeth Paepcke, a wealthy Chicago woman whose husband owned the Container Corporation of America, traveled to Aspen for the first time to go skiing. She traveled by train to Glenwood Springs, and the owner of the Hotel Jerome picked her up and drove the group back on a two-lane, snow-packed, dirt road at midnight. They stayed the night at the Hotel Jerome — which was once known as the “grandest hotel in the West” — after walking in to find that it was snowing on the third floor.
In January 1947, the world’s fastest, longest and highest chairlift at the time — a single chair that took 45 minutes to reach the top in two sections — was dedicated. By that time, multiple competitions had been held, and skiing in Aspen was well on its way to becoming the world-class destination that it is today.Now, Walter Paepcke was not a skier. He saw the value in it, and found the right people to ensure the success of skiing in Aspen.
That celebration ended up leading to the Aspen Music Festival & School, Aspen Institute, and International Design Conference. Later would come the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, the Aspen Historical Society, a ballet company, an opera company, a theatre company, a contemporary art museum and a film festival. The Aspen Idea led the area to the 12-month economy it enjoys today.
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