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#1 nathanvg

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Posted 26 June 2005 - 01:53 PM

When were the first of each lift type installed in the us and/or world:

Single: ?
Double: ?
Triple: ? (around 1975?)
Quad: ? (around 1980?) (The meadows quad at boyne mt. MI)
HSQ: ? (around 1984?)
HSS: ? (around 1990?) (first in US in 1992 at boyne mt MI [mt. express])

Any ideas? Just curious.

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#2 poloxskier

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Posted 26 June 2005 - 01:55 PM

Worlds first HSQ was 1981 at Breckenridge.

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Posted 26 June 2005 - 05:57 PM

First lift (Rope Tow) in US was at the White Cupboard Inn, Woodstock, VT: 1934
First Single Chair was at Sun Valley, Sun Valley, ID: 1936
First POMA lift in the US was built in 1951 (don't know where)
First T-Bar was built at Pico, VT: 1940
First Double Chair in the world was at Berthoud Pass Ski Area: 1947

That's all I have so far
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Posted 26 June 2005 - 08:09 PM

Actually, Mt. Spokane was the first ski area to get a double, then fallowed by Berthoud Pass. However, I found a site a while back that listed Hoodoo installed the first double chair in the world. Riblet built both the lifts at Hoodoo and Mt. Spokane but maybe they wern't counted since Riblet was still in the mining business?
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Posted 27 June 2005 - 03:47 AM

They were still counted. It's a bit murky for the first double, and I'm sure it's something like the first gondola in Colorado where there were two built in one year. One was finished first, but the other opened to the public first.
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