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Aspen and mining
Old mining camps that have lost most of their population at some stage of their history, such as Aspen, Central City, Crested Butt, Cripple Creek, Deadwood, Marysville, Oatman, Park City, St. Elmo, Tombstone, and Virginia City, are sometimes included in the category, although they are active towns and cities today.
The D & RG built west from Leadville over Tennessee Pass in an attempt to reach the mining areas around Aspen, Colorado before its rival railroad in the area, the Colorado Midland, could build a line reaching there.
* Ashcroft, Colorado, in the US, was a mining town located 10 miles south of Aspen
In 1945, Paepcke visited Bauhaus Artist and Architect Herbert Bayer, AIA, who had designed and built a Bauhaus-inspired minimalist home outside the decaying former mining town of Aspen, in the Roaring Fork Valley.
Likewise the extension of the railroad network up the Roaring Fork Valley to the previously failed mining town of Aspen in the late 1880s made the extraction of silver ore there economically feasible, and saved the town from near extinction.
At that time, Aspen was a faded mining town whose population had dwindled to less than a thousand.
The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad constructed a narrow gauge railroad over Tennessee Pass in 1881 as part of their extension to the Aspen area to beat the Colorado Midland Standard Gauge route to the rich mining area.
The range has been the site of mining activity since the days of the Colorado Silver Boom, which saw the founding of mining towns such as Aspen and Ashcroft.
The mountain is not particularly high but nonetheless looms over the town of Aspen because of the proximity of the town, which was founded as a silver mining camp in 1879 during the Colorado Silver Boom.
Paepcke, a successful Chicago industrialist, founded the company as part of larger effort at turning Aspen, a somewhat forgotten silver mining town, into an idyllic center for the advancement of the body, mind, and Spirit.

Aspen and community
* Aspen Hill, Maryland, a community
* Aspen Hill, Tennessee, a community
As one of the top 10 community colleges in the United States ( named by Aspen Institute College Excellence Program 2011 ), SBCC is known for its excellent transfer rates to the four-year colleges and universities.
North of Glenmont on Georgia Avenue is Aspen Hill ( another unincorporated community ) and Leisure World, a large retirement community.
Valencia was named the top community college in the United States in 2011 by The Aspen Institute.
The Aspen Institute awarded Valencia the first annual Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence after a year-long effort to recognize extraordinary accomplishments in individual institutions of the nation ’ s 1, 200 community colleges.
The Aspen award was granted based on, " a rigorous, yearlong effort ... to assemble and review an unprecedented collection of data on community colleges and the critical elements of student success: student learning, degree completion and transfer, equity and employment / earnings after college.
* Coney Island Hot Dog Stand for many years it was in Aspen Park area of Conifer, but was moved to the nearby community of Bailey.
Recently widened to four-lanes along the 50 mile ( 80 km ) section between Glenwood Springs and Aspen, it is heavily used commuting route for day workers between bedroom communities in the lower valley and the resort community of Aspen.
His past community involvement has included terms as chair and elected board member of the Whitecourt School District Board of Trustees, chair and vice-chair of the Whitecourt / Fox Creek Hospital Board, member of the Aspen Regional Health Authority, member of the Northern Gateway Regional Division No. 10 School Authority and elected member of the Woodland County Council.
The other developers of the community were Kaitlin Group and Aspen Ridge Homes.
Aspen Cove is a small fishing community in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Aspen and late
The fourth side ended in a locked groove that caused the last 1. 8 seconds of music to repeat endlessly ( as had been done on John Cale's recording of Loop as a flexi-disc accompanying an edition of Aspen in late 1966 ).
In early 1996 the lab was located in Oregon ; it was subsequently moved to Aspen, Colorado in late 1996.
" Ultimately, the A-body Dart was replaced by the F-body Dodge Aspen beginning in late spring of 1976 — a replacement Chrysler President Lee Iacocca would later lament due to the Aspen's many early quality problems.
Turner departed Top Cow in late 2002 to found his own comic book publishing company, Aspen MLT Inc. ( where MLT stands for Michael Layne Turner ), located in Santa Monica, with a studio in Marina del Rey, California.
Southeast of Aspen it climbs to on a 6 % grade at Independence Pass ( open late May – October ) before passing through Twin Lakes and descending to meet U. S. Highway 24 south of Leadville in the Arkansas River valley.

Aspen and early
Aspen was filmed in early fall and winter.
* The city of Aspen, Colorado, used Saabs as patrol cars from early 1970s until 2005, when the 9-5 was discontinued in favor of Volvo XC90.
By early November 2008, 400 of the hybrid SUVs, including Chrysler Aspen, had already been built.
A longtime executive of the Chicago-based Container Corporation of America, Paepcke is best noted for his founding of the Aspen Institute and the Aspen Skiing Company in the early 1950s, both of which helped transform the town of Aspen, Colorado into an international resort destination and popularize the sport of skiing in the United States.
B. Clark Wheeler, an early investor in mines at Aspen, further down the valley, where silver had been found in even greater abundance than Independence's gold, funded the construction of a stage road to Leadville, the first road to cross the pass.
The ski area has a unique " homespun " culture that dates from its early foundation as part of the Utopian social experiment in Aspen created by Walter Paepcke in the 1940s, retaining somewhat of a throwback culture in comparison to the other three areas of the complex.
In early 2006, Biederman and the Whitest Kids sold the show to the Fuse network after the Whitest Kids won the Best Sketch Group award at the Aspen Comedy Festival.

Aspen and until
A reengineered torsion bar suspension, introduced with the 1976 Dodge Aspen, introduced transverse-mounted torsion bars ( possibly based on the Volkswagen Type 3 passenger car ) until production ended in 1989 ( with Chrysler's M platform ).
Nitze continued to ski in Aspen until well into his 80s.
Vana and Aspen exchange blasts of ice and water until Vana shoots one directly at Aspen.
She was professor of voice at Eastman School of Music and Artist in Residence at the Aspen Music Festival from 1973 until her death.
Walter and Elizabeth founded the Aspen Music Festival and School in 1949, and Walter served as the festival's director until 1954 when he appointed baritone Mack Harrell to take over.
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 252 F. Supp. 2d 634, Marvin E. Aspen, J., granted preliminary injunction for plaintiffs, which shutdowns Defendant's service until the suit has been resolved, Aimster appeals from this preliminary injunction to the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Aspen and silver
When he was eight, the family left Aspen because of the collapse in the price of silver, moving to Redcliff and Silverton, Colorado, then to Salt Lake City, Utah.
By then Aspen, too, had begun to fall on hard times due to Congress repealing the Sherman Silver Purchase Act in response to the Panic of 1893, which took the largest buyer of the city's silver out of the market.

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