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The Original Ski School Meeting Place
^ The Conundrum Restaurant, 2000. © Ann Hodges photo
In the late 1940s and 1950s, ski school classes met their instructors, including Friedl Pfeifer, Fred Iselin, Percy Ridout and Johnny Litchfield, in an empty lot next to Elli’s. From here, classes would walk through town to the slopes. The Ski School Meeting Place was moved to Rubey Park in the 1960s and classes now meet at the base of Little Nell.
^ This photo shows Main St. in the 1920s. The Aspen Times and Hotel Jerome can be seen on the left. The empty lot which would become the ski school meeting place, the corner building which would become Elli's; the Braun and Hoagg Building, which is now (2000) the Cantina; and the Catholic Church can be seen on the right.
< You could see all the way to the base of the slopes from the Hotel Jerome in the '50. Here, a group of skiers waits to be assigned instructors.

> Friedl Pfeifer, founder and head of the Aspen Ski School, c. 1950.

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