This beautiful reproduction poster has been re-mastered from an early 1950's Flexible Flyer Ski Company advertising brochure. Holiday Hill was a predecessor for the present-day Mountain High Ski Resort, located near Wrightwood, Ca.
The high-resolution image is printed on heavy archival photo paper, on a large-format, professional giclée process printer. The poster is shipped in a rigid cardboard tube, and is ready for framing.
The 13"x19" format is an excellent image size that looks great as a stand-alone piece of art, or as a grouped visual statement. These posters require no cutting, trimming, or custom sizing, and a wide variety of these frames are readily available at your local craft or hobby retailer, and online.
A great vintage print for your home, business, or mountain cabin!
WRIGHTWOOD SKIING HISTORY
Wrightwood is a small community in the San Gabriel Mountains of Southern California, and home to the present-day Mountain High Ski Resort. Today, the Mountain High Ski Resort includes the former Holiday Hill and Table Mountain resorts that were developed in the 1940s and 1950s.
In the 1860s, Samuel Leeds Allen established the S. L. Allen Co. to manufacture farm equipment, and various other items he invented. The manufacturer slowed during the winter months, so Allen added a line of snow sport products to supplement his line. Allen was a "coasting" enthusiast since his youth, and he developed the Flexible Flyer sled. The sled became a winter favorite, enjoyed by generations of American children. As a further diversification, S. L. Allen Company made wooden skis, especially during World War II. In the 1930's, Splitkein developed the laminated skis, and S. L. Allen used its Flexible Flyer name to partner with Splitkein and produce laminated wooden skis. The Splitkein ski brand was manufactured by several different ski companies, with strict specifications for construction. The Mercury line was a low-priced, hickory ridge-top ski brand of Flexible Flyer.
When metal skis became popular in the late 1950s, Flexible Flyer wooden skis faded from the market place.
