“It was the summer of 1975 when I moved to Aspen,” writes Irish Kit O’Carra in comment #1. “I lived in a room at the Tyrolean Lodge, paying monthly during what was considered off-season, waiting for the Aspen Times to place the bundles of their weekly edition on the sidewalk at 310 E. Main Street, usually around 2 pm. I was one of about twenty people hanging out, anxious to grab the paper and find the new listings of apartments for rent. Then it was a mad dash to the nearest phone to place a call to the potential new landlord, hoping you were the first to see the place and put down a deposit on it….. If you weren’t too stoned and you had the funds to back up your check, it was pretty much a done deal…”