Old Time Winter

Some Pineland Ski Club Pictures of Annual Ski Carnival and Coronation. The ski carnival and skiing competitions were held almost every year (I believe in March) provided snow conditions were good enough. A Carnival Queen was chosen to represent the event.  From what I remember the Coronation was usually held at the Town Hall after the competitions had been held and there was a Ball and awards ceremony also. People would come from all around to participate in the Carnival. I believe you had to be a member of the Ski Club to enter the competitions. It was quite a tradition.

   There were dues paid by all Ski Club  members who wanted to belong to the ski club and you got a Pineland Ski Club patch which most members had sewn on their sweaters or ski jackets. The Pineland Ski Club usually held weekly meetings during the winter. I remember watching 8 mm movie reels of some of the competitions and events at these meetings. There was a secretary, treasurer, President and other elected officers from what I remember.

I apologize for the quality of these pictures. They were some old slides I had converted onto a CD so I could load them onto my computer. Most all of these were taken during the 1950's & 1960's.

See if you recognize anyone?

Not sure what year this was.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The old ski jump located behind the Town Hall where we spent hours & hours. It was lighted so you could even ski at night. Boys competitions were held on this.

 

The bigger 40 meter ski jump hill was located down on airport road where even before my time they used to have horse races and a sort of Fair in the summer. There was also a 20 meter jump located next to the 40 meter one where a lot of High School events were held. Ski Jumping was still quite popular back then. This 40 meter hill was more for the adult competition. This usually drew quite a crowd too if the weather was good. The little hut you see in the picture sold food and drinks.

 

A cross country skiing event.

  Just before a competition Vicky Meisner on the left. Richie Davidson the tall one. I believe Billy Simmons next to Richie and myself on the far right. Look at the size of these alpine skis then as compared to today's skis and the size of us kids. I think back then the way you would tell what size ski you should use was determined by you reaching up over your head and when you bent your hand at the wrist the tips of your skis should be right there. Nowadays you would use a much smaller length ski and probably is more determined by your skill level. Back then most people only had 1 set of skis and today they may have anywhere from 2 to 4 depending on ski conditions.

The Remmingtons who were very active also in the Pineland Ski Club.

From right to left- Clarance, Sonny, Robert, Tom, & Alan.

  Not a good picture but I'm sure this is Junior Poor on what was one of the earlier model Ski Doos I think.

A sliding party. This is what our sleds looked like then. Today there are many designs and styles of sleds. I think we also had what we called "Flying Saucers" (metal aluminum discs) and toboggans. I believe the kids in the picture are from left to right- Tommy Remmington (I think), Becky Simmons (Nickerson), and Peter Poor.

The pictures below will give you an idea of what I remember how much snow we used to get on an average every year during the winter. This years snow fall is close to what I remember it usually being. I remember a couple of years at least where the snow fall was much more than this. I don't know if this was because I was a child and it just seemed like it was more or that it really was a lot more snow fell in the winter back in the 50's and 60's. I think the last couple of years snow fall has been close to what I remember in my youth, although I don't have pictures of it there were a couple years I can think of from my youth that were incredible amounts of snow. I remember skiing off the roof of the house with snow all the way up to the roof. Also I remember you could stand in the street and the snow banks were so high you couldn't see any houses from the street.

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