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This week, the trees around Huntsville are starting to show their fall colors. In this vintage postcard, people are enjoying them from the lifts at Hidden Valley Highlands Ski Area. Do you know their vantage point? We don’t know the date this photo was taken. Can you guess?
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Here were some of the comments:
MaryLou Fletcher: Shopping at A&P while doing laundry at Peter’s. Peter’s was sooo busy and moved you along, no time wasted in moving your laundry out of the machines.
Brian Dallier: I miss those days. I can still remember going shopping with my parents and grandparents in the A&P. And if you didn’t want to shop there the Dominion grocery store was just up on main street with the Eaton store close by. Things were a lot simpler back then.
Wendy Brown: I remember the day the a @p opened it was really hot and the parking lot was new and melting in the heat and my mom made me stand in line for what seemed like days to wait to get in
Angela Catton: I remember the popcorn machine in Peters..the only fun thing about being dragged to the laundromat lol
Brooke Ninnes-Knight: This section of Huntsville does drag it down…..can’t something be done to revamp it or put up a building, etc.??
Debbie Hoyle: Back in the 1970s for me. Needs to be cleaned up to fit in with the other upgrades in that area. Will always love Huntsville.
So why were those cars parked so close together? They weren’t there to shop: this was a Bethel Pentecostal Tabernacle service led by Reverend James Laing, year unknown.
Yes, the top of the original Dutchman ski lift and 1963 would be a “near” date.
The Hidden Valley ski club used to operate the ski lift in the summer, not just the fall and there was for some years a concrete tower at the top that one could climb for a spectacular view of the area.
It was popular, like the Dorset Tower is now but I guess they did not make enough money to justify it as they no longer operate the lift in summer and the tower has been torn down after standing derelict for many years.
They used to run the chalet in the summer too, for entertainment, dances etc. and at one time the upper part of the parking lot right behind the chalet was the area’s first mini-golf course. I remember going to it back in 63/64. Again it was fun but I guess costs were too high and it has gone too.
There was a lot to do back then. Now we have things like the Treetop Trekking and they too are good. All these things suffer from being barely viable financially due to our short season and difficulty with the shallow shoulder seasons and long cold winter. Most need to be combined with support from another major player, like in treetop’s case being affiliated with Deerhurst or in the case of the chair lift, Hidden Valley.
Photo was taken top of “Dutchman” of the original chairlift about 1963