{"id":2443962,"date":"2019-05-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=305479"},"modified":"2019-05-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T06:00:00","slug":"aspen-history-road-weary-in-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-history-road-weary-in-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen History: Road Weary in \u201829"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/history-atw-050919.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/history-atw-050919.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/history-atw-050919-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption><strong>One b\/w photograph of Aspen High School (formerly the residence of D.R.C. Brown) with a 1932 Chevrolet and Model T Ford parked in front.<\/strong><br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">\u201cEverything went wrong,\u201d lamented a headline in The Aspen Times on May 17, 1929. The paper was referring to a road trip taken by Aspen High School students to Gunnison, where they dealt with numerous car issues. Eventually the group split up, some staying in Montrose with one broken-down car while the others continued home toward Aspen, and the trouble continued. As the article described, \u201cProf. Jones\u2019 car, driven by Ernest Cotton, had a faulty generator and poor lights. Between Rifle and Glenwood a passing car blinded Ernest and his car went over the grade. No one was hurt and the car was undamaged. Passing autoists, who happened to be former Aspenites, tried to put the car back on the road. It was then discovered there was a leak in the gas tank and this was thought could be fixed by driving a match in the hole. Hitting the match with a flashlight it was ignited and the car was set on fire. The fire was put out with mud but the car was completely demolished from the front seat back. The students were then taken to Glenwood where they stayed over Sunday night. All say they will never forget this eventful trip.\u201d This image shows cars parked in front of the Aspen High School building, circa 1930.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Shirttail\">This photo and more can be found in the Aspen Historical Society archives at aspenhistory.org.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/magazines\/aspen-times-weekly\/road-weary-in-29\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One b\/w photograph of Aspen High School (formerly the residence of D.R.C. Brown) with a 1932 Chevrolet and Model T Ford parked in front. \u201cEverything went wrong,\u201d lamented a headline in The Aspen Times on May 17, 1929. The paper was referring to a road trip taken by Aspen High School students to Gunnison, where [&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-2443962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 00:00:08","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\/2443962","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=2443962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}