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Vail, CO - History
We would like to provide the residents of Vail a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Vail Home page. The Vail Home page provides as much information as possible on Vail. Knowing Vail’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Vail’s Home page, you will also find Vail’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Vail has a population of 5614. 52.6% of Vail’s inhabitants are Male, and 47.4 are female. 43.9% of Vail is married and 71.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $811,283, and the average rent is $1,506. Household median income in Vail is $82,661, and the individual median income is $40,717. Vail’s Ethnic is the following: White(96.2%), Hispanic(5.7%), Multiple(1.9%), Asian(1.2%), Other(0.6%), Black(0.1%).
Vail was incorporated in 1966, four years after the opening of Vail Ski Resort. The ski area was founded by Pete Seibert and local rancher Earl Eaton in 1962, at the base of Vail Pass. The pass was named after Charles Vail, the highway engineer who routed U.S. Highway 6 through the Eagle Valley in 1940, which eventually became Interstate 70.
Seibert, a New England native, served in the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division during World War II, which trained at Camp Hale, 14 miles south of Vail between Red Cliff and Leadville. He was wounded in Italy at the Battle of Riva Ridge but went on to become a professional skier after he recovered.Seibert, with other former members of the 10th Mountain Division, returned to Colorado after World War II with the intention of opening a ski resort.
During training for ski troopers at Camp Hale, he bivouacked on Vail Mountain and identified it as an ideal ski mountain. In the early 1960s, Seibert got funds from a group of Colorado investors, including Jack Tweedy, and with Earl Eaton bought a ranch at the base of the mountain and eventually incorporated as Vail Associates.
As plans continued for a new ski resort, Seibert hired Morrie Shepard as Vail's first ski school director. Shortly after, Shepard recruited Rod Slifer from Aspen to be the assistant ski school director. Slifer also became the only real estate broker in the early years of Vail and would later be the broker in the transaction that allowed Vail to buy a ranch, now known as the world-famous Beaver Creek. In December 1962, Vail officially opened for its first season.
It operated a gondola lift and two ski lifts on the mountain owned by the United States Forest Service. The village was established at the base of the mountain for local residents and offered lodging for visitors. It quickly grew throughout the valley, with housing added first in East Vail and then West Vail, and additional lodging added in Lionshead in the late 1960s.Within the first year, the village had a ski shop operated by Dick Hauserman and Joe Langmaid, a ski boutique operated by Blanche Hauserman and Bunny Langmaid, a hotel and restaurant operated by Pepi Gramshammer, and the mountain had a manager.
By 1969, Vail was the most popular ski resort in the state. In 1988 Vail opened China Bowl, making Vail the third largest ski area in North America.
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