This beautiful reproduction poster has been painstakingly re-mastered from an early 1950s Wrightwood ski area advertising brochure. Wrightwood was home to Holiday Hill, a predecessor for the present-day Mountain High Ski Resort.
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" and 24"x36" formats are excellent image sizes that look 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. The 24"x36" poster has a 1" white border.
A great vintage print for your home, business, or mountain cabin!
HISTORY OF SKIING IN THE WRIGHTWOOD AREA
In the early 1920s, the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation was developing Big Pines, a summer and winter park facility west of Wrightwood, in the San Gabriel Mountains. The county officially opened Big Pines Park in 1924. In 1929, a 1,150 ft. world-class ski jump was completed in time for the park’s third annual winter carnival.
The Blue Ridge ski resort, predecessor of today’s Mountain High West opened in 1937 with a basic rope tow. The resort modernized its facilities when it began operating California’s 2nd ever chairlift in 1947. Blue Ridge became Mountain High when it was purchased by Dick Woodworth in 1975. In 1981, nearby Holiday Hill was purchased by Mountain High and it became part of the combined Mountain High Ski Areas. Ski Sunrise located just north of Big Pine was also incorporated into the Mountain High Ski Areas.
