{"id":2445263,"date":"2019-06-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=307819"},"modified":"2019-06-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T06:00:00","slug":"aspen-history-guidos-goes-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-history-guidos-goes-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen history: Guido\u2019s goes national"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/history-atw-061319.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/history-atw-061319.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/history-atw-061319-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption><strong>One color slide transparency of Guido&#8217;s Swiss Inn (restaurant) from January 1963.<\/strong><br \/><em>Vagneur; Jean Clausen<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">\u201cAspen restaurant featured in credit card promotion,\u201d announced an article in The Aspen Times on July 19, 1963. \u201cAn Aspen restaurant is included among seven \u2018high in the sky\u2019 restaurants in a full-page American Express Credit Card ad which will appear in the August issue of Gourmet Magazine. Representing Aspen is Guido\u2019s Swiss Inn. Others pictured are the Space Needle, Seattle; Top of the Flame, Detroit; Taubman\u2019s Penthouse Club, New York City; Le Mont, Pittsburg; Top of the Mart, Atlanta; and the Lancer, Reno. Under the photo and the name of Guido\u2019s Swiss Inn is the caption: \u2018Aspen, Colorado, Chalet Restaurant 7800 ft. up on the famous Ajax Mountain ski slopes. Swiss atmosphere, Swiss waitresses, Swiss food \u2014 including Fondue Bourguignonne.\u2019 Headline of the full-page advertisement reads, \u2018Dining on top of the World with your American Express Credit Card.\u2019\u201d This image shows Guido\u2019s Swiss Inn in 1963.<\/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\/guidos-goes-national\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One color slide transparency of Guido&#8217;s Swiss Inn (restaurant) from January 1963.Vagneur; Jean Clausen \u201cAspen restaurant featured in credit card promotion,\u201d announced an article in The Aspen Times on July 19, 1963. \u201cAn Aspen restaurant is included among seven \u2018high in the sky\u2019 restaurants in a full-page American Express Credit Card ad which will appear [&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-2445263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 16:20:37","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\/2445263","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=2445263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}