Al S. Lamb – 1855 to 1940
Al S. Lamb 1855–1940 by Buzz Cooper and Larry Fredrick In late 1886 or early 1887, Al Lamb, a pharmacist, decided to cast his lot with the new silver […]
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Bil Dunaway – 1923
Bil Dunaway 1923 –present Bil Dunaway was a great newspaper publisher and has a huge heart, but what he was known best for around The Aspen Times was his […]
Betty Jane Harbour – circa 1950 arrival
Betty Jane Harbour From Port Arthur, Texas, Betty Jane Harbour came to Aspen around 1950 with her husband Jack. She built the houses that bracket the east end of […]
Barry Smith
Barry Smith 1966 –present Full-time humorist and former audio-visual guy, Barry Smith has, in 15 years of living here, unassumingly become a modern-day embodiment of the “Aspen Idea.” Not […]
Aspen State Teachers College
Dr. Slats Cabbage “The Dr. of Fluid Mechanics” (aka Marc Demmon) 1951–present Slats was the manager for the Aspen Mine Company and announced “this will be your headquarters for the […]
Crystal Palace Not Always So Palatial
Crystal Palace Not Always So Palatial Yore Aspen The Crystal Palace in 1962, with the Owl Cigars advertisement on the side. Aspen Laundry was in the one-story white building to […]
First Grade Fears in 1914
First Grade Fears in 1914 Yore Aspen Washington School in Aspen’s West End. (Willoughby collection)Click to Enlarge Tim WilloughbySeptember 29, 2007Starting school is a tough transition for children. The prevalence […]
Made In Aspen
Made In Aspen The Durant Mine fabrication shop could make almost anything. (Willoughby photo collection)Click to Enlarge Tim WilloughbyOctober 6, 2007Fifty years ago you would often encounter abandoned mining and […]
Jeep Brakes and the Wonderful Willys
Jeep Brakes and the Wonderful Willys Yore Aspen Jeanne Willoughby Englert sitting atop a 1950s Willys in front of what later became La Cocina restaurant on East Hopkins Avenue. (Doris […]
Clearing the grizzly – mining’s most dangerous job
Clearing the grizzly – mining’s most dangerous job Click to Enlarge Tim WilloughbyOctober 20, 2007Blasting required careful handling of explosives. Drilling was a silent killer from rock dust cutting up […]
