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- Josef "Joe" Staufer
- Josef F. “Joe” Staufer was born 18 August 1934 in Schörfling am Attersee, Austria to Karl & Teresa Staufer. While both parents modeled kindness, industry and an appreciation for rural montane life, the Staufer children learned to love food preparation and hospitality from their mother. Staufer attended hotel school in Lucerne, Switzerland. He worked in Basel, Frankfort and London prior to migrating to Bermuda in 1956. In Bermuda, Staufer managed the Elbow Beach Club and met the love of his life, Anne. While traveling to California for a new job, they visited Vail in January of 1963 … and never left. The Staufers welcomed their son, Jonathan, into the cozy home that Earl Eaton built in 1971. Josef Staufer’s enterprise and creativity is legendary. During the ski season of 1963, he managed Mid-Vail and opened the very popular lunch haven called Hamburger Heaven. While managing the Lodge at Vail, Staufer convinced Vail Associates to keep the Lodge open during the summer. When informed he could not keep the kitchen open, Staufer created a grill in The Lodge great room. He subsequently opened restaurants at the Christiana and Manor Vail. In addition, Staufer bought an inn that became the Austria Haus. In 1969, with the support of investors, he purchased Vail Village Inn. Joe Staufer was a charter member of the Vail Rotary Club and helped inaugurate the Vail Resort Association. Landscape and architectural aesthetics, as well as environmental stewardship, are important values for Staufer. He was instrumental in keeping Ford Park a community commons and open space and also led an effort to bury, berm and landscape the village parking structure. Staufer also helped organize the “Walk for Water,” an awareness-promotion campaign focused on Piney Lake and proposed Homestake II Reservoir water diversion efforts. Staufer served on the Vail Town Council from 1972 to 1977 and served as mayor pro tem during the last two years. He also served on the board of the Eagle River Water and Sanitation District. In 1977, Staufer and Sally Hanlon spearheaded the campaign to open Red Sandstone Elementary School. The Vail Health hospital has a “patient care unit room” dedicated to the Staufer family. Josef Staufer was honored with the 2020 Vail Trailblazer Award, which acknowledged his legacy and community contributions over the last five decades.
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- Josef "Pepi" Langegger
- Josef "Pepi" Langegger was born on 28 February 1934 in Wagrain, Salzburg, a small mountain community in the Austrian Alps. As a youth, Langegger survived World War II, but lost both his parents by age thirteen. He persevered despite his loss and eventually attended Klessheim Hotelfachsule, a hotel-restaurant school located in Salzburg. In 1959, Langegger and lifelong friends, Peter Stadler and Hermann Staufer, immigrated to Canada. In 1961, Langegger arrived in the U.S.; he met and married Hanna "Ann" Pufal in Chicago. The Langeggers made their way to Vail by 1966. Entrepreneurial by nature, Pepi, alongside his wife Ann, opened the original Blue Cow restaurant circa 1969. They also created the Tyrolean Restaurant, a Vail fixture on Blue Cow Chute for over three decades. Working with Stadler and Staufer, Langegger partnered in other landmark restaurants including Lord Gore at Manor Vail, The Lancelot in Vail Village, and the Golden Eagle Inn in Beaver Creek. The Langeggers also raised elk for area restaurants at Twin Creek Ranch near Silt, Colorado. Langegger experienced the evolution of European skiing firsthand; its influence was apparent in his restaurants and the character of the community he helped to create. The Langeggers spent their retirement years at Twin Creek Ranch near Silt, Red Sky Ranch near Wolcott, Colorado and in Scottsdale, Arizona. Josef "Pepi" Langegger passed away on 12 June 2020. Pepi and Anna were married 53 years at the time of his passing. Pepi and Anna are the parents of Peter and Sig Langegger.
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- Josefita (Armijo) Serna
- She was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She was a homemaker. Died of gallstones in 1929. She was a native Spanish speaker who spoke no English.
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- Joseph "Joe" Peep
- Joe Peep (born Joseph Pepe to Italian immigrant parents) was an early Fruita farmer, cowboy, rodeo rider, and horse enthusiast. With his brothers, he competed in several of the rodeo competitions at Fruita's Cowpuncher's Reunion and won the bronc riding competition. He rode as a cowboy for Albert Turner on his Grand County ranch. He then farmed in Glade Park, and briefly on a failed homestead on Pinon Mesa before he bought land in Loma, where he farmed potatoes. Son of "Joseph" Pepe.
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- Joseph "Joey" Johns
- Born in Aspen and moved to Grand Junction with his family in 1909. Played on the Grand Junction Baseball Team as a young man, and later managed the team. He was the first person to sell the Saturday Evening Post in Grand Junction, and worked as a salesman for the Curtis Publishing Company for many years. He was also a mill worker and World War I veteran.