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Hotel Jerome 1889

During Aspen's silver boom of the late 1800's, Jerome B. Wheeler, co-owner of Macy's, sold his share of the department store and moved his wife to Colorado for health reasons. Finding a need for a first class hotel, one to rival those of New York and Denver, Wheeler financed the building of the Hotel Jerome which opened on Thanksgiving day, 1889. A four story sandstone building, it was one of the first buildings west of the Mississippi to be fully lit by electricity.

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Not really your Aspen

If you thought it was expensive to own a piece of Aspen, try owning a piece of the word "Aspen." It turns out there is some guy out in Palm Beach, Mr. Douchebag*, who trademarked the name 20 years ago and has the rights for its use with 40 different applications. In fact, many Aspen businesses, which were established long before Mr. D came along, continue to pay him a licensing fee.

Potatote learned about this only recently, when we were told by our lawyers that we could not use the word "Aspen" even though it's only there to denote the location of the buildings depicted on our bags. We donate a portion of our proceeds to local charities and basically operate as a non-profit ourselves. Instead of giving back to the community we've been a part of for over 30 years, a good chunk of that money will go to Mr. D who is likely sitting poolside somewhere in Palm Beach, Florida, about as far from Aspen as you can get without leaving the country.

* name has been masked to protect us from growing legal fees