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Originally Posted by Cosmo mentis
Greg,
Sometime back I came across a write-up of the Sun Valley Lodge. Historic for sure. 
Oh and btw... imho if you came across a bunch of C2's, we'd be lookin' at pics by now!
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No --- I would have done the same thing..... Only reason I'd have stopped to take the pic was just to tie the coincidence of them being here in town with the thread being fresh. I have 20,000 car photos on my computer.... don't really need any more. LOL
Sun Valley is "historic" for one reason --
it was the WORLDS very first ski lift (1936). Averell Harriman (owner of Union Pacific Railways) had it built and built the lodge for his rich and famous friends - and to pimp passengers to ride his railroad. A walk thru the hallways is a trip back in history of the "who's who" during several decades.
Funny -- the stores at the base of the mountain are named "The Brass Ranch" -- the area was, in fact, the Brass Ranch - which was purchased (at $4 per acre) to build the "resort". To put that into perspective.... I bought 1.6 acres for 1.625M - to put that into perspective - current owners of "Sun Valley" bought the entire operation in 1977 for 12M - of which my property was part of that deal. LOL