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“Cannon Mountain’s Cable Car Shoots Up Faster than Skiers Can Slide Down
The Aerial tramway in Franconia Notch, New Hampshire, makes the ascent in less than eight minutes. Average skiers take twice that long to return, but experts sometimes achieve 60-mile speeds. These two men, with ski tips turned in as brakes, reduce speed by snowplowing.”
From National Geographic, May, 1951.
Posted on December 14, 2009
The Modern Life is a blog about American culture from roughly the 1930s through the 1960s. The point is to give a glimpse into the everyday life, doing my best to be historically accurate and avoiding fabricated and stereotyped current views of a past that never was. You can contact me at grey.haas@gmail.com
