During the Great Depression, the Midnight Mine hired several unemployed drifters to work at the mine. Few stayed for very long, but this helped them save enough to move on to another opportunity. Most of…
The Aspen Skiing Company is celebrating a 75th anniversary on Tuesday, Jan. 11. The company has pegged the anniversary to the official opening celebration of Aspen Mountain’s original lifts, Lift One and Lift Two, held on Jan. 11, 1947. Tim Willoughby remembers how his uncle and father help build the lifts, which began spinning on Dec. 14, 1946.