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Park City Mountain Resort audio-visual collection

 Collection
Identifier: A0664

Scope and Contents

The Park City Mountain Resort audio-visual collection (1961-2002) contains film, video and audio recordings, almost all of which are directly related to Park City Mountain Resort's role in Utah's winter sports industry and international competative ski ciruit. The colleciton includes promotional materials for the ski area, Utah's ski industry at large and the United States Ski Team, footage of the World Cup and other competitions held at the resort, ski films by Stein Ericksen and Warren Miller, and many other materials relating to the ski and snowboard industry in Utah and beyond.

Dates

  • 1961-2002

Creator

Language of Materials

English French Japanese

Conditions Governing Access

Materials must be used on-site; no use of original material, access copies will be made available for viewing. Five business days advanced notice required. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law, condition of the material, or by donor.

Organizational History

The town of Park City sprung up in Utah's Wasatch Mountains after army prospectors discovered silver in the area in 1868. Early miners used primitive skis and snowshoes as transporation to the mines, and skiing emerged a recreational activity by the 1920s. Scandinavian miners held jumping tournaments on the Creole Mine dump (now the Creole ski run to the Town Lift), and the newly formed Park City Ski Club conducted guided ski tours on the hills that make up the modern resort.

As the area's silver mining industry faded away in the mid 20th century, the town's last surviving mining company, United Park City Mines, received a federal loan to help revive conomically depressed rural towns and opened the city's first ski area, Treasure Mountain Resort, in 1963.

For its first four years of operation the resort featured the Skier's Subway lift, which carried skiers in modified mining trolleys two and a half miles through the pitch dark Spiro Tunnel to the Thaynes Hoist, where they boarded the old mine elevator and were lifted 1,750 feet to the surface near the Thaynes chair lift.

Treasure Mountain changed its name to Park City Ski Area in 1966 and to Park City Mountain Resort in 1996. Its sister ski resort, Park City West (later Wolf Mountain; now The Canyons) opened in 1968, and nearby Deer Valley opened in 1981.

Park City hosted its first World Cup ski race in 1986. During the 2002 Winter Olympic Games hosted by Salt Lake City, Park City Mountain Resort hosted the men's and women's giant slalom, men's and women's snowboarding parallel giant slalom, and both men's and women's snowboarding halfpipe events.

Extent

210 Items

Abstract

The Park City Mountain Resort audio-visual collection (1961-2002) contains film, video and audio recordings, almost all of which are directly related to Park City Mountain Resort's role in Utah's winter sports industry and international competative ski ciruit. The colleciton includes promotional materials for the ski area, Utah's ski industry at large and the United States Ski Team, footage of the World Cup and other competitions held at the resort, ski films by Stein Ericksen and Warren Miller, and many other materials relating to the ski and snowboard industry in Utah and beyond. Founded in 1963, Park City Mountain Resort is one of three ski areas in the vicinity of Park City, Utah.

Arrangement

The majory of the materials are arranged chronologically. Undated material is located at the end of the register beginning with item 224. Some items are available on more than one format.

Related Materials

See also the Park City Mountain Resort photograph collection (P0949), the Park City Ski Area photograph collection (P0384), the Park City, Utah photograph collection (P0228) and the Park City Ski Corporation records (Accn 1218). For additional promotional audio-visual materials related to Utah ski resorts see the Ski Utah tourism audio-visual collection (A0590) and the Utah Travel Council tourism video collection (A0544).

Processing Information

Processed by Elizabeth Shuput and Tawnya Mosier in 2003.
Title
Guide to the Park City Mountain Resort audio-visual collection 1961-2002
Author
Finding aid prepared by Elizabeth Shuput and Tawnya Mosier.
Date
2003
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Part of the J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections Repository

Contact:
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
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