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Legends of Showdown · The Ski Club years, 1936–1956

1947 Harlan Cory on Ski Patrol

1947 Harlan Cory on Ski PatrolHarlan Cory Collection · Provided by Nancy Springer

Harlan Cory

Club president 1953, and twenty-four seasons of passes

Legend of Showdown

Born: 27 August 1920, Helena
First skied at Showdown
First worked here: president of the Great Falls Ski Club from April 1953
Years at Showdown: 1953–1957
Positions: President, Great Falls Ski Club, installed at the Skier's Spring Fling, 18 April 1953
Recorder at the club's giant slalom on the newly dedicated Throckmorton's Mile, 15 March 1953
Great Falls Ski Club board of directors, elected to a two-year term 15 April 1955
Ski Tow, Inc. stock-subscription committee, one of seven, March 1956
Director, Ski Lift, Inc., at its filing in July 1956
Named to work the Great Falls Ski Patrol's Ski Breakfast at the YMCA, March 1957
Proprietor, Cory's Paint Store, 2303 10th Avenue South, Great Falls, from 1961 — forty-three years
Awards: National Ski Patrol member

What they did

2 entries

1956Personally subscribed one Ski Tow, Inc. class B share at $25, on a five-month instalment
Led an eight-man crew cutting ski trail with hand chainsaws in the 1950s, working beside Bill 'Willi' Reynolds

Photographs

60 in the archive

1937 Harlan Cory — 1937 Harlan CoryThrockmorton Collection · The History Museum, Great Falls, MT

1938 Harlan Cory — The Warming Hut — Group of Skiers — 1938 Harlan Cory — The Warming Hut — Group of SkiersThrockmorton Collection · The History Museum, Great Falls, MT

1946 Harlan Cory at Kings Hill — 1946 Harlan Cory at Kings Hill1938-1957 High Res Scans

1946 Harlan Cory walking up snowy slope — 1946 Harlan Cory walking up snowy slope1938-1957 High Res Scans

1947 Harlan Cory on Ski Patrol — 1947 Harlan Cory on Ski PatrolHarlan Cory Collection · Provided by Nancy Springer

1947 Harlan Cory — 1947 Harlan CoryHarlan Cory Collection · Provided by Nancy Springer

1947 Ski Patrol Training — 1947 Ski Patrol TrainingHarlan Cory Collection · Provided by Nancy Springer

1947 Harlan Cory — Ski Patroller — 1947 Harlan Cory — Ski PatrollerHarlan Cory Collection · Provided by Nancy Springer

1960, 3 - Harlan Cory — 1960, 3 - Harlan CoryHarlan Cory Collection · Provided by Nancy Springer

1966 Harlan Cory — 1966 Harlan CoryHarlan Cory Collection · Provided by Nancy Springer

1967-68 Harlan Cory back Season Pass — 1967-68 Harlan Cory back Season PassSeason Passes

1967-68 Harlan Cory front Season Pass — 1967-68 Harlan Cory front Season PassSeason Passes

1969-70 Harlan Cory back Season Pass — 1969-70 Harlan Cory back Season PassSeason Passes

1969-70 Harlan Cory front Season Pass — 1969-70 Harlan Cory front Season PassSeason Passes

1970-71 Harlan Cory Season Pass — 1970-71 Harlan Cory Season PassSeason Passes

1971-72 Harlan Cory back Season Pass — 1971-72 Harlan Cory back Season PassSeason Passes

1971-72 Harlan Cory front Season Pass — 1971-72 Harlan Cory front Season PassSeason Passes

1972-73 Harlan Cory back Season Pass — 1972-73 Harlan Cory back Season PassSeason Passes

1972-73 Harlan Cory front Season Pass — 1972-73 Harlan Cory front Season PassSeason Passes

1973-74 Harlan Cory back Season Pass — 1973-74 Harlan Cory back Season PassSeason Passes

1973-74 Harlan Cory front Season Pass — 1973-74 Harlan Cory front Season PassSeason Passes

1975-76 Harlan Cory back Season Pass — 1975-76 Harlan Cory back Season PassSeason Passes

1975-76 Harlan Cory front Season Pass — 1975-76 Harlan Cory front Season PassSeason Passes

1976-77 Harlan Cory back Season Pass — 1976-77 Harlan Cory back Season PassSeason Passes

1976-77 Harlan Cory front Season Pass — 1976-77 Harlan Cory front Season PassSeason Passes

1977-78 Harlan Cory back Season Pass — 1977-78 Harlan Cory back Season PassSeason Passes

1977-78 Harlan Cory front Season Pass — 1977-78 Harlan Cory front Season PassSeason Passes

1978-79 Harlan Cory front Season Pass — 1978-79 Harlan Cory front Season PassSeason Passes

1979 Triple Chair Construction from Harlan Cory 2 — 1979 Triple Chair Construction from Harlan Cory 2Harlan Cory Collection · Provided by Nancy Springer

1979 Triple Chair Construction from Harlan Cory 3 — 1979 Triple Chair Construction from Harlan Cory 3Harlan Cory Collection · Provided by Nancy Springer

1979 Triple Chair construction — 1979 Triple Chair constructionHarlan Cory Collection · Provided by Nancy Springer

1979 Triple Chair Construction from Harlan Cory — 1979 Triple Chair Construction from Harlan CoryHarlan Cory Collection · Provided by Nancy Springer

1981-82 Harlan Cory back Season Pass — 1981-82 Harlan Cory back Season PassSeason Passes

1981-82 Harlan Cory front Season Pass — 1981-82 Harlan Cory front Season PassSeason Passes

1982-83 Harlan Cory back Season Pass — 1982-83 Harlan Cory back Season PassSeason Passes

1982-83 Harlan Cory front Season Pass — 1982-83 Harlan Cory front Season PassSeason Passes

1983 Clifford Dean Cory and Harlan Thomas Cory — 1983 Clifford Dean Cory and Harlan Thomas CoryHarlan Cory Collection · Provided by Nancy Springer

1983-84 Harlan Cory front Season Pass — 1983-84 Harlan Cory front Season PassSeason Passes

1984-85 Harlan Cory back Season Pass — 1984-85 Harlan Cory back Season PassSeason Passes

1984-85 Harlan Cory front Season Pass — 1984-85 Harlan Cory front Season PassSeason Passes

1985-86 Harlan Cory back Season Pass — 1985-86 Harlan Cory back Season PassSeason Passes

1985-86 Harlan Cory front Season Pass — 1985-86 Harlan Cory front Season PassSeason Passes

1986-87 Harlan Cory back Season Pass — 1986-87 Harlan Cory back Season PassSeason Passes

1986-87 Harlan Cory front Season Pass — 1986-87 Harlan Cory front Season PassSeason Passes

1987-88 Harlan Cory back Season Pass — 1987-88 Harlan Cory back Season PassSeason Passes

1987-88 Harlan Cory front Season Pass — 1987-88 Harlan Cory front Season PassSeason Passes

1988-89 Harlan Cory front Season Pass — 1988-89 Harlan Cory front Season PassSeason Passes

1989-90 Harlan Cory front Season Pass — 1989-90 Harlan Cory front Season PassSeason Passes

1990-91 Harlan Cory back Season Pass — 1990-91 Harlan Cory back Season PassSeason Passes

1990-91 Harlan Cory front Season Pass — 1990-91 Harlan Cory front Season PassSeason Passes

1991-92 Harlan Cory back Season Pass — 1991-92 Harlan Cory back Season PassSeason Passes

1991-92 Harlan Cory front Season Pass — 1991-92 Harlan Cory front Season PassSeason Passes

1992-92 Harlan Cory front Season Pass — 1992-92 Harlan Cory front Season PassSeason Passes

1992-93 Harlan Cory back — 1992-93 Harlan Cory backSeason Passes

1993-94 Harlan Cory front Season Pass — 1993-94 Harlan Cory front Season PassSeason Passes

1994-95 Harlan Cory front Season Pass — 1994-95 Harlan Cory front Season PassSeason Passes

1940's Harlan Cory - Member of the nattional ski patrol — 1940's Harlan Cory - Member of the nattional ski patrolHarlan Cory Collection · Provided by Nancy Springer

1950s Harlan and Clary Cory — 1950s Harlan and Clary CoryHarlan Cory Collection · Provided by Nancy Springer

1950s? Harlan Cory — 1950s? Harlan CoryHarlan Cory Collection · Provided by Nancy Springer

1950s Bill "Willi" Reynolds, Harlan Cory Cutting Trees — 1950s Bill "Willi" Reynolds, Harlan Cory Cutting TreesThrockmorton Collection · The History Museum, Great Falls, MT

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In the papers

12 documents

Jack Throckmorton’s scrapbook Club papers, membership records and cuttingsc.1937–1957 · pages 32, 50
Ski Tow Incorporated Stock subscriptions — the founding list1956 · page 1
Kings Crier Vol. II, No. II — price 10¢4 December 1964 · page 10
Kings Crier Vol. III, No. IIDecember 1965 · page 8
Kings Crier UnnumberedNovember 1969 · page 5
Kings Crier UnnumberedDecember 1969 · page 5
Kings Crier UnnumberedJanuary 1970 · page 5
Kings Crier Unnumbered — published monthlyOctober 1970 · page 8
Kings Crier UnnumberedDecember 1970 · page 6
Kings Crier UnnumberedJanuary 1971 · page 3
Kings Crier UnnumberedMarch 1971 · page 3
Kings Crier Unnumbered — last issue of the 1970-71 seasonApril 1971 · page 5

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Also

Built the Pomalift, 1957 — a founding director of Ski Lift, Inc., the company that built it, and one of the seven men who canvassed Great Falls for the capital

Added by the people who were there