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20 June 2009

The Madness of Temporary Ski Jumps (via The Goat)

post by: box at: 13:16 | 4 comments

Those are awesome. You wonder why they stopped building them -- and why they built them in the first place. Maybe this was just before Wide World of Sports.

posted by dhartung 20 June | 18:06

These are great, box. I just posted the link to SpoFi (with credit, natch). Thanks for posting it.

posted by ufez 20 June | 18:57

Happy to share, and glad you like 'em. That Soldier Field one--in 1954, a ski-jump club rented the stadium, then hired a scaffolding company (Gilco, for the Chicagoans) to build it. They covered the jump with crushed ice instead of snow.

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posted by box 20 June | 19:24

How did they crush the ice -- tell it it was from Milwaukee?

posted by dhartung 21 June | 22:09

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