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[teachski]

I was going through some old brochures today and came across this double lift that I can not identify the brand of. I have never seen one like it before. That does not mean anything though, because my lift ID skills are bad.

This lift was at Big Tupper, NY. It appears in a 60's vintage brochure.

The towers look like Hall, but i've never seen Hall chairs like that.

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This post has been edited by teachski: 26 July 2005 - 03:33 PM

[edmontonguy]

It's indeed a Hall. This was a very limited production chair and i know of olny one other area who had(has?) these types of chairs. They're coined "cathedral" chairs.

[teachski]

edmontonguy, on Jul 26 2005, 04:51 PM, said:

It's indeed a Hall. This was a very limited production chair and i know of olny one other area who had(has?) these types of chairs. They're coined "cathedral" chairs.
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They are cool Chairs! Thanks. I knew the rest looked very "Hall-like", but the chairs threw me.

[SkiReg]

The Big Tupper lift was one of Mr. Hall's first actual lifts built in 1959, I believe.

The chair design was fairly expensive to produce, more as a prototype to get noticed as you all know about his later more conventional designs...

Makes you wonder where Yan got his inspiration later for his designs...