The photographer Ron Hoffman captured the winter skiing season in Aspen in 1974, Colorado and documented a winter holiday in a time so distant than ours.
In general, these photos reflect the time when people went skiing and were actually skiing and relaxing, and not staring in their iPhones dressed in ski outfits like nowadays.
Besides skiing, below you can see cool fashion from the 70’s and people enjoying in small things like soaking in a warm pool or enjoying in the afternoon sun.
Founded as a mining camp during the Colorado Silver Boom and later named “Aspen” because of the abundance of aspen trees in the area, the city boomed during the 1880s, its first decade of existence. That early era ended when the Panic of 1893 led to a collapse in the silver market, and the city began a half-century known as “the quiet years” during which its population steadily declined, reaching a nadir of less than a thousand by 1930. Aspen’s fortunes reversed in the mid-20th century when neighboring Aspen Mountain was developed into a ski resort, and industrialist Walter Paepcke bought many properties in the city and redeveloped them. Today it is home to three renowned institutions, two of which Paepcke helped found, that have international importance: the Aspen Music Festival and School, the Aspen Institute, and the Aspen Center for Physics
All photos by The U.S. National Archives
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