Sunday River Ski Souvenir Patch — c. 1970s-80s

A vintage Sunday River ski patch, estimated to date from the 1970s or 80s, round with a gold merrowed border and a red ring around a black center — a gold sun rising behind a white peak with a blue river band beneath, sunday river in white across the top and maine at the foot.

The base-lodge souvenir format in its purest form: buy the patch, sew it on the parka, prove you were there. It was the check-in of its day, and it lasted considerably longer than any of the digital versions will.

Nobody ever scrolled past somebody's patch collection.

Newry is a small town on Route 2 in western Maine and the ski area is considerably better known than the town, the river or the county it sits in. That is true of a lot of these places and it is never true the other way around.

Embroidered on twill, merrowed edge. Photos are the condition report.