by BARBARA PLATTS
1995.093.0425 Negative, Film
*Aspen Historical Society*
Copyright AHS
1995.092.0002 Print, Photographic
*Aspen Historical Society*
Copyright AHS
Description One 2.25" negative and b/w photograph of three people hiking the Maroon Bells. The man in the foreground is OPPOSITE Charles Webb a wearing a pack, and can be seen looking behind him. The valleyPAGE: below can be seen. The pours ground below them is covered with snow and there appears to be a ropepitcher on the ground, 1955-. Ransom’s head while the over Andy
two were working as bartenders at the first Roch Cup Calcutta in 1947. LEFT: Roz Henry and an unidentified woman stand on a rocky, snow-covered slope in 1963. ABOVE: Three people hike the Maroon Bells in 1955.
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THE AGES OF THE ASPEN DREAM THE UTES: Pre -1879 THE MINING BOOM: 1879-1893
“In Aspen, one could have we can’t always Ski Town Culture, and the New THE QUIET YEARS: 1893-1936 the ideal living and working stop things from Western Dream.” ASPEN REBOUNDS: 1936-1948 situation, working hard but moving forward. He published this work in BODY, MIND, AND SPIRIT: 1949-1960 having immeasurable fun at the As Monroney 2006 after extensive amounts MODERN ASPEN: 1961-Present same time,” he stated. from the Aspen of research on the town and its Historical Society Richey found, in his research Description history. Reading his perception For more information, visit aspenhistory.org. said at the end of Aspen me something for articles published in Skion a rocky, One b/w photograph of showed Roz Henry and an unidentified woman standing snow-covered slope. Several of our tour familiar. magazine The clothing New Yorkand hats, peaks can be seen in the background. They are wearingand winter 1963. around Aspen, He stated that people came Times, that the Aspen/Ski opportunity to help us escape “If your community is alive and to Aspen in search of adventure Town lifestyle accepted work as People and we can appreciate it for thriving, you have to let things a means to an end. And it was Henry, Roz and as a way to escape from the making us feel like the richest of change. We have to walk the “real world.” And these people, permitted to exist as long as it Americans simply by looking out specifically the young, transient did not interfere with playtime. line between preservation and our window each morning. All development.” ones, helped to shape the town. This perspective can still be of the condominiums and highWe can’t protect all of the “Aspen’s chief demographic observed today, when a powder end retail shops in the world old historical structures in trait continued to be that it morning closes businesses or a cannot alter that. town. We can’t fight every was populated largely by the nice summer day warrants an businessperson who wants to transient young…” he wrote. afternoon spent outside with erect a condominium building Richey noted that Aspen’s friends. Barbara Platts is not adverse to or a new luxury hotel. What newcomers used the town as an The only thing we can count development and progress. Her old soul just has fits of nostalgia we can do is protect the Aspen escape, as a place different from on in life is change. Today is a from time to time. She can be Dream, the philosophy this the rest of the world, where fun different time then the silver h:\collections\pp5\images\086\19950920002.JPG 05/22/2014 12:48:42 reached at bplatts.000@gmail. town was built around. We can was a necessity and work merely mining boom or the start of continue to love this place for its com or @BarbaraPlatts. an afterthought. the ski industry. Try as we may,
PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE ASPEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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