{"id":43477,"date":"2018-01-17T09:38:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T14:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=43477"},"modified":"2018-01-17T12:47:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T17:47:10","slug":"its-wayback-wednesday-slow-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/its-wayback-wednesday-slow-it-down\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Wayback Wednesday: Slow it down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Wayback Wednesday sponsored by Cavalcade Color Lab! Every week, we\u2019ll be sharing a vintage photo and asking our readers to chime in with anything you can recall about the photo, other related memories, or even a funny caption. Have some vintage photos of your own? Send them to huntsville@doppleronline.ca and we may share them with our readers!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scroll down to see last week\u2019s photo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The steamship Algonquin plied the waters between Huntsville and Lake of Bays for decades. A trip that now takes half an hour by road took three hours by steamer then. Can you guess the date of this photo? (Image via Bigwin Island Golf Club.)<\/strong><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Wayback Wednesday is sponsored by Cavalcade Color Lab<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"48158\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Last week we shared this photo with you:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42185 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2018\/01\/Wayback-Wednesday-2018-2-Ski-hill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"707\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2018\/01\/Wayback-Wednesday-2018-2-Ski-hill-630x399.jpg 630w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2018\/01\/Wayback-Wednesday-2018-2-Ski-hill.jpg 707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t have details about this vintage postcard but Doppler readers helped us out with the run \u2014 it&#8217;s the Dutchman at Hidden Valley Highlands Ski Area. The date is still up in the air with some thinking it&#8217;s late &#8217;60s and others claiming it&#8217;s into the 1970s. Thanks for chiming in, everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This vintage postcard depicts one of the runs at Hidden Valley Ski Club (now Hidden Valley Highlands Ski Area). 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