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Snowboard exhibit added to Ski and Snowboard Museum |
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Monday, November 21, 2011 08:29 |
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Sean Brubaker photographs a stand-up snow toy thought to be from the 1930s for a catalog of the new snowboard exhibit at the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Museum in Vail. The exhibit opens Dec. 9. Dominique Taylor, Vail Daily
By Scott N. Miller, The Vail Daily
VAIL — Trent Bush has spent almost all his life around snowboards. Now he's a prime mover in putting the sport's history on display in Vail.
Bush and other volunteers are in the process of setting up an expanded display of snowboarding heritage at the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Museum. The display is scheduled to open Dec. 9.
“This will be the most significant snowboard gallery in the world, and that's appropriate — this is really a U.S. invention,” Museum Director Susie Tjossem said.
See a photo of a 1981 Burton board.
The exhibit will include a lot of boards, of course. But it also will include plenty of other displays and information explaining the evolution of the sport.
One of those items is a 1939 vintage prototype of an early snowboard, along with a rejection letter from the Wilson sporting-goods company explaining why the company didn't think the public would go for riding on one board.
There also are early boards from Burton, Sims and other pioneering companies, as well as a few pieces that show how early boards were made and painted.
Read more about the items in the exhibit at the Vail Daily website.
Read more about items in the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Museum's inventory - skis, snowboard, lift tickets, gondola cars - in the Out There story from December 2007.
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