{"product_id":"bald-mountain-dedham-maine-embroidered-patch","title":"Bald Mountain Ski Patch, Dedham, Maine — c. 1970s","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vintage Bald Mountain ski patch from Dedham, Maine, estimated to date from the 1970s or 80s, a rectangle with scalloped shoulders and a black merrowed border — BALD MOUNTAIN in black on a blue sky, a white-headed bald eagle in profile with a gold beak filling the middle, and below it a green band with a white summit mark and DEDHAM MAINE. Bald mountain, bald eagle. Nobody thought about it for long and it is better for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBald mountain, bald eagle. Nobody involved thought about this for more than four seconds and the result is better than anything a longer meeting would have produced.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere is a whole genre of this: small ski areas solving their design problem by taking the name absolutely literally and drawing the first thing that came to mind. It produced some of the most memorable graphics in the business, entirely by accident, because nobody was trying to make something memorable. They were trying to get the patches ordered before the season started.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDedham is inland from the coast, a long way from anywhere anybody would call a destination. The hill is not operating. The eagle, as far as anybody knows, was never seen on the premises.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is also, as a piece of drawing, considerably better than it needed to be. Somebody took the job seriously even though the brief was a pun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge. Photos are the condition report.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ropetow Vintage Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55537893802289,"sku":"RV-ME-113","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/2048\/7473\/files\/ropetow-vintage-co-bald-mountain-patch.webp?v=1785621334","url":"https:\/\/ropetowvintage.com\/products\/bald-mountain-dedham-maine-embroidered-patch","provider":"Ropetow Vintage","version":"1.0","type":"link"}