Skis and skiing -- Colorado -- Steamboat Springs -- History
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Eileen Allen discusses moving to Steamboat in 1978, her marriage to native resident Lon Allen, raising their children, and the many community organizations she’s been involved with, including fund-raising efforts beginning in 2016 for a $10 million dollar renovation and expansion of the Old Town Hot Springs facilities in downtown Steamboat Springs.
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Marian Tolles talks about meeting and travelling with her future husband, George Tolles, as well as their move to Steamboat Springs in 1957. She also touches on their time at the Lowell Whiteman School and Colorado Mountain College in the earliest days of those institutions. The Old town Hot Springs played a big role in their daily lives.
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Nancy Gray talks about growing up in Steamboat Springs in the 1950s and 1960s, her 49-year career as a ski instructor at Steamboat Ski Resort after ski racing in her youth, teaching and coaching young swimmers, and the importance of the downtown hot springs to herself and her family.
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Black and white uncredited and undated photograph (1930s or 1940s?) of Pearl Stehley standing in front of her house in the snow at 405 8th Street, Steamboat Springs, Colorado. She is wearing a long dark coat, and a white knitted or crocheted headpiece. In her left hand she's holding a pair of wooden skis that look to be almost twice as tall as she is; in her right hand a long wooden ski pole taller than her.
