{"product_id":"vintage-lost-valley-auburn-maine-skiing-embroidered-patch","title":"Lost Valley Ski Area Patch, Auburn — c. 1970s","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vintage Lost Valley ski patch from Auburn, Maine, estimated to date from the 1970s, a tall oval with a light blue merrowed border — the state of Maine outlined faintly in grey, the same cartoon skier in his orange striped sweater standing on it under a small yellow sun, and LOST VALLEY set so that the skier's own skis form the V. AUBURN MAINE beneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe skis making the V is the kind of idea that takes a designer about four seconds to have and forty years to stop being pleased with. It works. Nobody who sees it once fails to see it every time afterward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLost Valley opened in Auburn in 1961 as a small hill with lights — the format that has taught more Americans to ski than every destination resort in the country put together, and gets about one percent of the attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is still running, which puts it in a minority of the places in this catalog.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNight skiing deserves more credit than it gets. A lighted hill forty minutes from a city, open until nine, is how a person with a job and children actually learns to ski. The destination resorts get the photographs; the small lighted hills got the students.\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":55537897799985,"sku":"RV-ME-101","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/2048\/7473\/files\/ropetow-vintage-co-lost-valley-ski-patch.jpg?v=1785621891","url":"https:\/\/ropetowvintage.com\/products\/vintage-lost-valley-auburn-maine-skiing-embroidered-patch","provider":"Ropetow Vintage","version":"1.0","type":"link"}