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Park City ⢠Erik Schlopy has the last reservation on the last night of business at Adolphâs Restaurant.
The Olympic skier and Park City resident said on April 30, when the white-tablecloth dining room shuts down for the final time â after nearly 50 years in business â he wants to be there to honor the moment with owner and founder Adolph Imboden.
âAs ski racers, we donât have a lot of American spots to go â like they do in Europe â that really celebrate the sport like Adolphâs does,â Schlopy said. âIt is a little fiber of our community being torn out. And itâs sad.â
Apr 21, 2021
I have an autographed poster of Stein Eriksen says keep smiling
I have a baseball signed by the cast of sandlot. Also have a picture with them. Was at the 25th anniversary of the movie
I have a poster signed by Yao Ming. It s cool because it s rare. He wasn t supposed to sign anything unless it was approved by China
my brother has a suit worn by Samuel L Jackson in a movie. My parents gave it to him for Xmas about 20 years ago.
My dad met O. J Simpson the week prior of the murder of his wife. O. J signed an autograph on the back of a receipt.
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Small scraps of laminated paper, nails in the trees and deconstructed bench are all that remain at the Hunter S. Thompson shrine at Snowmass Ski Area. The glade once covered in photos, articles, signs and paraphernalia dedicated to the late gonzo journalist and Woody Creek writer contains only remnants of the tribute.
It’s not the only one gone: at least nine other shrines to Bob Beattie, Spider Sabich, Stein Eriksen, Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, the state of Minnesota, the Chicago Blackhawks, cats and golf have been destroyed, according to an email from David Wood.
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Adolph Imboden, owner of Adolph s Restaurant, poses in the entryway of his establishment on Tuesday. Imboden plans on closing the restaurant at the end of April.
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Whenever I walk to my table at Adolph’s there’s a short period of distraction. Scanning the room, I step back in time to relive some of the great moments in ski racing history amid the hundreds pieces of memorabilia adorning the walls. Across the dozens of nations that have played host to the FIS Alpine World Cup around the world, few gathering spots have become the type of global Mecca as Adolph’s.
Bruce Polich at the Mother Lode building where he opened his popular Aspen restaurant in 1959.
Bruce J. Polich, who among many other endeavors started The Mother Lode restaurant in Aspen in 1959, died earlier this month at St. Anthony’s Hospital in Denver where he had been hospitalized after contracting COVID-19. He was 97.
Bruce moved his young family from California to Aspen in 1959 because he felt “the action was there,” and also fell in love with the beauty of Aspen, according to his son Thomas Polich. Bruce was a freelance writer and filmmaker, pioneering promotional ski films for Sports Illustrated, Aspen Highlands Ski Company, the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies and the Aspen Music Festival.