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75 Years of Lift Technology


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__Moving Upward in Skiing
____Ski Lift Mobile
_______Six Decades of Ski Lift Technology

Vermont has always been a leader in the implementation of the latest in uphill skiing transportation. This mobile consists of a sampling of the very first of several types of ski lifts used in Vermont from 1934 to the present. Each example is believed to the one of the actual lifts from the ski area in which it was first installed in the State.

Lift Type

Ski Area

Location

First Used

Manufacturer

J-Bar

Bromley

Peru

1940

 

Rope tow

Gilbert’s Hill

Woodstock

1934

Model T Ford/Homemade

Single Chair

Stowe

Stowe

1940-41

American Steel and Wire

T- Bar

Pico Peak

Mendon

1940-41

Constam/Roebling

Poma

High Pond

Hubbardton

1950+/-

Poma

Double Chair

Stowe

Stowe

1954

J. A. Roebling

Gondola (3 person)

Sugarbush

Warren

1958-59

Carlevaro & Savio

Gondola (6 person)

Killington

Killington

1969-70

Carlevaro & Savio

Triple Chair

Pico Peak

Mendon

1970-71

Hall

Quad Chair

Killington

Killington

1979-83

Yan


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