{"id":2451830,"date":"2019-12-04T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=317039"},"modified":"2019-12-04T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T12:00:00","slug":"smass-history-doc-smiths-popcorn-wagon-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/smass-history-doc-smiths-popcorn-wagon-1970\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u2019mass History: Doc Smith\u2019s Popcorn Wagon, 1970"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/history-svs-120419-1024x700.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/history-svs-120419-1024x700.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/history-svs-120419-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/history-svs-120419-768x525.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/history-svs-120419-1536x1051.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/history-svs-120419-2048x1401.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>An image of the popcorn wagon in front of the Timbermill taken by Steve Stratford in 1978.<\/strong><br \/><em>Courtesy photo\/The Aspen Histori<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">The Doc Smith\u2019s Popcorn Wagon joined other businesses on the Snowmass Mall in early December of 1970, shortly after the birth of the Snowmass Ski area. It was positioned just in front of the Timbermill and served classic fare such as popcorn, hotdogs, hot soft pretzels and cocoa. In later years, the fare changed as well as the name and location, and not too long ago became Johnny\u2019s Little Dill. When Johnny\u2019s closed for business, it sold the Lil\u2019 Dill as a Venga Venga express satellite stand serving tacos, and then Francesca\u2019s Empandadas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">While the names and offerings have changed, the concept of quick, affordable food for the savvy skier remains.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/snowmass\/smass-history-doc-smiths-popcorn-wagon-1970\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image of the popcorn wagon in front of the Timbermill taken by Steve Stratford in 1978.Courtesy photo\/The Aspen Histori The Doc Smith\u2019s Popcorn Wagon joined other businesses on the Snowmass Mall in early December of 1970, shortly after the birth of the Snowmass Ski area. It was positioned just in front of the Timbermill [&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":["post-2451830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 03:48:30","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\/2451830","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=2451830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}