{"product_id":"vintage-maine-east-ski-club-embroidered-patch","title":"Maine East Ski Club Patch (Ski \u0026 Crutch) — c. 1960s-70s","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vintage Maine East Ski Club patch, estimated to date from the 1960s or 70s, round on a white ground inside a black merrowed border — MAINE EAST stacked at the left, SKI CLUB at the right, and crossed in the middle a blue ski and a yellow crutch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA crutch. Crossed with a ski, on the club's own emblem, ordered on purpose and worn in public. Every other patch in this catalog is selling you the idea that skiing is glorious. This one is the only object in the collection that tells the truth about it, and the club that commissioned it clearly enjoyed doing so.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eClub patches outnumber resort patches and get collected about a tenth as often, which is a mistake that works in your favor. The clubs filled the lifts. They organized the buses, negotiated the group rates and got entire towns of people onto a mountain who would never have gone on their own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA resort patch tells you a place existed. A club patch tells you how people got there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCrossed skis and a club name is about as plain as patch design gets, and it has held up better than most of what came after it.\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":55537897931057,"sku":"RV-ME-099","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/2048\/7473\/files\/ropetow-vintage-co-maine-east-ski-club-patch.jpg?v=1792336166","url":"https:\/\/ropetowvintage.com\/products\/vintage-maine-east-ski-club-embroidered-patch","provider":"Ropetow Vintage","version":"1.0","type":"link"}