Stimulus Plan In 1930's Created Colorado Ski Industry

Colorado Springs Gazette, CO:

Monarch, Winter Park and Wolf Creek ski areas all celebrate 70 years of skiing this winter and they all owe their start, in part, to an unexpected benefactor: government stimulus. It came in the form of the New Deal.

In 1939 -- the year all three ski areas were born -- the Great Depression had pushed the state's biggest industries, agriculture and mining, into the dumps. The government was searching for ways to jump-start the anemic economy and give people work. Almost anything was on the table.

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