A Blast from the past: "Skiing through Maine" (1950s)

[Magi]

Randomly wandered into this Video Tour through Maine's ski areas in the 1950s on YouTube, and there's a ton of fun moments in it.

Hopefully someone else finds this either a tour through memory lane, or just a cool window into where the sport started.

 

[Brad J]

I love those old films, reminds me of my double lace days

 

[James]

Post this in the Random Video thread.

 

[Scruffy]

Nice video.

Just to Nit Pick about the title of the video on Youtube: It's barely in the 50's; Sunday River opened Dec. 19th 1959. The car in the opening scene was a 1958 Buick Roadmaster. So either that video was shot just after Sunday river opened, or it was shot after 1960. Still a fun romp through ski history.

 

[Nathanvg]

Randomly wandered into this Video Tour through Maine's ski areas in the 1950s on YouTube

Not sure of the exact year but it's after 1961 since that satalite dome was built then. Cool video.

 

[noggin]

Cool video Thanks for posting. Yes definitely from the early 60's. Saddleback did not have t-bar lift access until winter of 60-61.
Hopefully Saddleback will open again soon. A truly great eastern skiing mountain.

 

[JuneauTheHusky]

Cool video Thanks for posting. Yes definitely from the early 60's. Saddleback did not have t-bar lift access until winter of 60-61.
Hopefully Saddleback will open again soon. A truly great eastern skiing mountain.

Is it still the same old story with Saddleback or is there some real potential?

When I worked at a ski shop in Maine I always had people coming in telling me how much they missed the place.

 

[noggin]

A Boston investment group might do something: heres a thread about it:
https://www.pugski.com/threads/whats-up-with-saddleback-2019.14498/

 

[Dave Petersen]

I used to buy videos of vintage skiing. Nice to get them free on YouTube!

 

[Bad Bob]

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Didn't ski Maine but it was more about the what not the where. Good had a whole different description back then; fun times.

 

[mister moose]

The car in the opening scene was a 1958 Buick Roadmaster. So either that video was shot just after Sunday river opened, or it was shot after 1960.

But was the 1958 Buick Roadmaster available in mint metallic green?