Back in Time | Aspen

“A gentleman riding horseback along Main street found a ladies’ shoe on the road near the city limits on Wednesday evening,” The Aspen Daily Times stated on June 21, 1889. “It was a pretty little shoe and did not look as though it had been worn more than once or twice. After riding four or five blocks further into town he found the mate to the shoe in the middle of the street. Riding in still further, he came upon a lady and gentleman in a buggy, the horse taking it leisurely enough. Somehow the equestrian got an idea that the shoes had something to do with the pretty little lady in the buggy. So he held them up and asked her about it. She blushed red to the roots of her hair, and explained that they were new, they hurt her, she had taken them off on the sly and left them in the bottom of the buggy intending to put them on again before the ride was ended.”

“Back in Time” is contributed by Aspen Historical Society and features excerpted articles and images from past Snowmass Sun/Aspen Times issues. We can’t rewrite history, but we can learn from it! Visit archiveaspen.org to view the vast Aspen Times photographic collection in the AHS Archives.