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Article: CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING GAINS SOME GROUND ON ALPINE BROTHER.(Business)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- December 25, 1988
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Byline: Tom Precious Business writer
Yes, Virginia, people did ski before there were chair lifts, apres ski parties, and skintight, neon-colored fashions.
And they called it cross-country skiing.
Several hundred years ago, long before the invention of the $35 downhill lift ticket, European soldiers tied skis onto their boots and trudged off to fight their battles. By the early 1900s, cross-country skiing was becoming popular in the United States.
But then came the Depression in the 1930s, which gave the nation not only unemployment and soup lines, but the widespread introduction of chair lifts, a simple people-moving invention that ...