In the Summer the Sports Shops Have Small Window Displays of Ski Gear, AND There Is a Full Stock Downstairs.

….This Is Because, Not Only Is There Winter Skiing, There is Wonderful SUMMER Skiing At Top Of Beartooth Highway. This Will Be Discussed In A Forthcoming Photo.

…. “ We walk past ski shops and into …. “

Business District Downtown Red Lodge, MT. In this shop I did find a huge stock of winter (and summer) sports gear, including ski equipment, in their lower level basement. My photo of their full sports inventory is placed in Album => “Henry Gurr’s Non-ZMM Experiences. To access, please follow this series of steps =>
…. After this Page of FIVE ALBUMS comes up, Scroll down to Henry Gurr’s Non-ZMM Experiences, Along The ZMM Route => Then Click On Photo, THEN AFTER Page of 9 Small Photos comes up, Click Upper RIGHT on the Double >> Arrows to go to 5th Page of Small photos. THEN Scroll Down To “Ski Merchandise”.

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PHOTO => SECOND HALF OF RED LODGE HISTORY Which Happens To Be In =>
….A Book Review of A Good & Revealing Book =>
RED LODGE AND THE MYTHIC WEST: COAL MINERS TO COWBOYS. ….. by Bonnie Christensen ….2002 ….. ISBN 978-0-7006-1198-0
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…. “IN SEARCH OF" A PUBLIC IDENTITY: THE CASE OF RED LODGE, MONTANA.” => A BOOK REVIEW BY W. Thomas White.
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....Following the Second World War, Red Lodge fashioned yet a new identity. Grafting the once-denied ethnic diversity onto its Western image, boosters created a public Festival of Nations. Capitalizing on its spectacular scenery and the opening of the Bear Tooth Highway to Yellowstone National Park, opinion makers added a new, scenic appeal for tourists and themselves. Again, at the close of the twentieth century, they joined other locales in the historic preservation movement to resurrect the town's coal mining past. Down came the false storefronts as citizens rehabilitated the structures of the previous century. "By the 1990s," Christensen concludes, "Red Lodge was not only a Wild West rodeo site, an ethnic Festival of Nations community, and nature's town, but it was also a 'historic' mining district" (p. 217), and a viable model for the values and life style commonly associated with small town America.
...This latest public identity, of course, was sanitized. like its predecessors. The ugly slack piles from the mines were removed, class and ethnic tensions blurred, and other gritty realities ignored. "Like the cowboys who no longer lived in town, the immigrants who now seemed so American, and the natural world that had been conquered with a highway, industrial mining could finally be idealized and celebrated and incorporated back into the town's public persona" (pp. 236-237). In the end, generations of residents have chosen and fabricated a whole series of identities for their town. In part they did so to appeal to potential settlers and tourists. In part, too, they simply took what they needed or wanted from their past for themselves and for their collective survival as they adapted to the changing realities of the present.
….This [book] is a fine case study of a small town's search for a public identity. Ms Christensen has researched her book thoroughly and writes engagingly. She is sensitive to the residents' differing perceptions of themselves and their town, and how those notions meshed with the existential realities of life in the Rocky Mountain West. She carefully blends her story with the larger, national culture and shifting popular views of the West in this thoughtful, well-written story.
Click Here To View Original Version Of This Book Review Public Identity Of Red Lodge, Mt. *************************

(Photo = Summer2006 0460 ...... ZMM Page = 109 ...... WayPt = 126`|k|' 5553ft)