Back in Time: Aspen

Back in Time: Aspen

“Marshal Sutton arrested two suspicious looking characters, who were trying to force an opening into Staats, Hunt & Co.’s Mill Street store, about 1 o’clock this morning,” announced the Aspen Daily Times on March 28, 1889. “One proved to be Jack Kelley, a man who has been in Aspen about one month, 26 days of which he has spent in jail. The other was a broad-shouldered, stoutly-built fellow, who refused to give his name. When the marshal started …

Back in Time, March 22

Photographer Unknown, East Side School/Lincoln, Linda Oster - Researcher The East Side School pictured was built in 1884, near the middle of the block between East Fifth and East Sixth Avenues, where the present day Cathedral Squares Apartments are located. The school’s name was later changed to Lincoln School. It was decided in 1907 to build a new High School; the new High School was to sit at the location of Lincoln School. Consequently, Linco…