No Safety Bars Needed, Vintage Photographs of Snow King Chairlifts

[left-of-center2012]

Many people freaked out by these vintage photographs of Snow King chairlifts from between the 1950s and 1970s. The biggest issue is the lack of safety bars over the front ...







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[dchill]

1. I seriously get vertigo just looking at these pictures!

[madaboutharry]

6. Me too!

I admit that I have an irrational fear of heights.

These photos freak me out.

[jpak]

2. Yikes!

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Where Eagles Dare at least had a cable car

[MiHale]

4. First picture does have a safety bar...

Mom’s arm! Always there even over 20 years with grown kids gone for years.

[louis-t]

5. Never had safety bars in the '60s and '70s when I skiied.

'Course, we were never more than 40 ft off the ground. This reminds me of the cable cars I was on in Switzerland in '72. Yikes. Looks like the side of a very steep mountain. They are probably not very high off the ground but if you fall, you will certainly go down the steep hill very fast.

[japple]

9. Our family skiied in the Bavarian Alps in the 60s. They had these tow-ropes that you

hooked onto with short metal bars and those things would nearly jerk your arms out of your sockets. I have been trying to find out what those contraptions were called. There were also the tow-ropes and lifts for the higher slopes. The pros always just hiked back up the mtn. on their skis.

[brush]

7. Yikes. We were dumb and so trusting then.

[underpants]

8. Here you go. We think this is Gatlinburg TN

[rsdsharp]

10. What does one do when one reaches the top of the mountain

in midsummer?

[left-of-center2012]

11. The last chairlift I rode ...

It came close enough to the top that you just stepped off.

[rsdsharp]

12. But what is there to do when you get there in the summer.

In winter, you get to the top in order to ski down. What does one do in summer?

[left-of-center2012]

13. It's a 'park like' setting

Picnic area; great view point of the valley; hiking trails; etc.