{"id":2443400,"date":"2019-04-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=304657"},"modified":"2019-04-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T06:00:00","slug":"history-spring-cleaning-in-1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/history-spring-cleaning-in-1950\/","title":{"rendered":"History: Spring Cleaning in 1950"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"620\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/history-atw-042519.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/history-atw-042519.jpg 602w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/history-atw-042519-291x300.jpg 291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\"><figcaption><strong>One 2.25&#8243; x 2.25&#8243; b\/w negative of an award-winning flower garden in the West End, 1955. Sweet peas<\/strong><br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">\u201cClean up time is here for yards,\u201d declared The Aspen Times on April 20, 1950. \u201cAspen has eye-appeal \u2014 or will have \u2014 spring is here and civic-minded and proud Aspenites are busy spring cleaning their yards and gardens which is transforming Aspen into something spic and span. Some of Aspen\u2019s citizens are doing an outstanding job in helping to make the city more attractive. Donald Kirby, owner of the Alpen Fad Shop, undertook the project of transforming the entire vacant lot next to his shop and the Isis Theater into a garden, and for weeks has busily been spading and planting \u2014 an example of how a cluttered, unattractive vacant lot can be made beautiful and something everyone will be proud of. Whip Jones recently purchased the corner lot on Main Street and Center and has been planting flowers and shrubs this week that will contribute to Aspen\u2019s eye appeal \u2014 to visitors and natives alike. Many other Aspenites are doing a good clean-up job to improve their own back yards \u2014 let\u2019s all pitch in \u2014 it makes a difference!\u201d This image shows an Aspen flower garden, circa 1955.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Shirttail\"><em>This photo and more can be found in the Aspen Historical Society archives at aspenhistory.org.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/weekly\/history-spring-cleaning-in-1950\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One 2.25&#8243; x 2.25&#8243; b\/w negative of an award-winning flower garden in the West End, 1955. Sweet peas \u201cClean up time is here for yards,\u201d declared The Aspen Times on April 20, 1950. \u201cAspen has eye-appeal \u2014 or will have \u2014 spring is here and civic-minded and proud Aspenites are busy spring cleaning their yards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 07:14:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}