Oral History Interview with Tony and Eleisa Trampler, 1994 September 26, 2006, 1949-1962

Item

Identifier: AHS-C100

Staff Only

Abstract

Tony and Elisa Trampler discuss their families' involvement to the Aspen Music Scene during the 1950's and 60's. They also discuss businesses, people, what Aspen looked like when they arrived, their parents careers over the years, and homes they lived in or visited.

Dates

1994 September 26
Digitization: 2006
Coverage: 1949-1962

Digital Repository

Oral History Interview with Tony and Eleisa Trampler

Biographical / Historical

Tony Trampler was born in 1941 to Walter Trampler and Eleanor Bancroft Trampler. He had one sister, Janet, who died in 1969. Tony spent summers in Aspen starting in 1953 for his dad to play in the Aspen Music Festival (MAA). They left, and after his parents divorced and he had graduated high school his family (mother , sister and self) moved back to Aspen around 1958-59. He worked for Bil Dunaway printing the Aspen Times and drove a taxi for Little Percent Taxi. He married Eleisa Marsala on April 28, 1962 and has at least one son.

Biographical / Historical

Eleisa Trampler was born in new York City to Adele Girard and Joe Marsala circa 1940. Her parents were both Jazz musicians in New York, but as the music scene changed they decided to move out to Aspen, Colorado in the late 1940's. She left to attend school in California when she was 13 years old and then moved to Great Neck, Long Island for high school graduating in 1957. She married Tony Trampler on April 28, 1962 and has at least one son.

Extent

1 Items ; ~70 minutes

Additional Description

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Playback cassette tape: Radio Shack HD 90

Computer Hardware: 3 (total) Intel Celeron 1.8GHz/224 MB RAM PC's (made by PowerSpec), each with a Firewall hard drive (2 made by MicroNet, 1 made by LaCie) and M-Audio Delta Audiophile (internal sound card); External Firewire Hard Drive; Analog Playback Equipment: Nakamichi Dragon, Nakamichi Cassette Deck 1; Analog/Digital Converter: Prism Dream ADA-8XR; Prism Sound Dream AD-2

Operating System: Windows XP; Capture and editing software: Steinberg Wavelab 4.0; Formatting software: Sony Soundforge; Other Devices: Switcher to allow monitoring of multiple transfers.

Basic Map: Nakamichi Dragon -> Analog RCA or XLR -> AD converter -> AES (XLR) -> M-Audio Card -> Software -> External Firewire Drive

General

Title supplied by the Archivist: Anna L Scott. Interview conducted on September 26, 1994 in Aspen, Co. Accompanied by digital transcript.

Names discussed: Eleanor Bancroft Trampler, Walter Trampler, Janet Trampler, James, Tommy Moore, Jim Moore, Don Stapleton, Neil Stapleton, Billie Lou Stapleton, Sally Moore, Billy Marolt, Frank Sinatra, Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa, Tommy Dorsey, Leon Girard, Victor Herbert, Alice Meickus, Grangenea, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Pietro Marsala, maria Schiffo, Al Capone, Sabatinis, Mike Magnifico, Maggie Magnifico, Otto, Hurdle, Bugsy Barnard, Pino Lela, Stein Eriksen, Dagmar Rom, Zeno Colo, Marius Eriksen, Andy Mead, Andrea Mead, David Lawrence, Gary Cooper, Van Johnson, Russell, Bruce Berger, Fritz Benedict, Mona Frost, Philip Zamora, Maude Twining, Jane Moore, Cherie Gerbaz, Fil Dunaway, Verlin Ringle, Natalie Gignoux, Luke Short, Ethel Merman, Whip Jones, Georgia Jones, Max Dejulio, Fred Glidden, Silvia Sardy, Buck Deane, Judy Ringle, Monte Ward, Hallie Barbie, Gale Spence.

Place Names: Aspen, West Francis, Third Street, Main Street, New York City, 52nd Street, Holyoke, Massachusettes, Palermo, Italy, New Orleans, chicago, Loveland Pass, Aspen Mountain, Mill Street, Castle Creek, Connecticut, California, Great Neck, Long Island.

Business', Organizations, Buildings, and Mines: music Festival (MAA), Hickory House, Carnegie Hall, T-bar, Little Nell, Magnifico Sports, Best Western, Christmas Inn, Mountain chalet, Hospital, Red Onion, Isis Theater, Aspen Public School, Children's Reviewer, Aspen times, Little Percent Taxi, Carl's (Pharmacy.