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Show t The Newspaper Thursday, June 24, 1982 P A9 111111 Whadd'ya aiplke&place o ooo o o ooo o o ooo o Know? by Kick Brough lit iiiliWi; iini'iMiiiniTTTTTTWs j ' ; ' 'fli' I 1 1 111 ' , j j j : I ' I ! i 1 j. V 1 New gondolas scheduled to be installed for next season. Skiers to ride in style at Park City Resort Skiers at the Park City Ski Area will be clambering aboard brand-new cabins on the gondola lift when the area opens next November. The new European-made, four-passenger cars will sport safety glass and automatic opening and locking doors, according to Ski Area President Phil Jones. Jones explained that the original gondola went up in the early 1960s under a government area redevelopment re-development loan that stipulated the funds had to be spent locally. The original cabins, in use up through last season, were built by a Salt Lake City firm that had had no previous experience in that type of construction. Those cars were made with plexiglass windows and doors that had to be locked and unlocked manually by lift operators. The old cabins also were difficult to maintain, main-tain, Jones noted. "This will look like a real gondola, not a homemade one," Jones said this week. "It will be a nice visual impact im-pact for the skiing public." The summer mechanical crew also is installing automation equipment on the gondola stations that will regulate the speed of the cabins as they move through certain points where previously they have moved through via gravity. In the past, wind, cold or heavy loading would cause the cars to slow down at certain points. The gondola lift used to be operated in summer months, but maintenance problems eventually ruled that out, Jones said. It's possible the new cabins could make the summer service feasible again. There'll be other im provements when the area opens, hopefully the weekend before Thanksgiving. Thanks-giving. This is the third year of a major three-year expansion program to the snowmaking equipment. An additional water supply will go in on the upper portion of the mountain, moun-tain, meaning more man-made man-made snow for the Claim-jumper Claim-jumper run and the Hollow if it's a late-snow season. Previously, there would be plenty of natural snow on top early in the season, but that snow would run out toward the mid-Mountain Lodge and below. "With the new snow-making snow-making improvements" Jones said, "we don't have to wait on the snow." The first phase of the underground un-derground parking which was open but not totally functional func-tional this past winter, will be completed for the coming season, complete with lighting and elevators in operation. The new ice skating rink will be finished this summer, Jones added. New curb and sidewalks have been installed in-stalled along the road bordering bor-dering the outdoor parking lot and entrance, and there'll be a transit center for bus traffic, including a shelter for waiting passengers. No new runs are planned, but trail crews are working on widening tight spots to help the flow of skiing traffic and changing some grades. The Mid-Mountain Lodge, as well as the Summit House, the Snow Hut and the Garden Room, at the base, will be operating restaurant facilities, but Mid-Mountain may not be operating its overnight facilities. Landscaping crews are planting sod and seeding at the base, next to the ticket r I 745 Quaking Aspen Court, Park City, Utah 84060 office, so early and late-season late-season mud should no longer be a problem. The first phase of the Park City Village condominiums and commercial complex at the base will be completed this summer, and no new construction will be going on when the season begins. "The entire area should be looking good," Jones said. Seven new businesses already have leased space in The Village complex, according accor-ding to Joan Harling of Park City Village Associates. The new businesses will be Cole Sports; Dolly's Book Store; Food for Thought, a delicatessen and cheese ",hop; Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory; an interior in-terior design studio; New Zealand Imports; and Ziggy's Pub and Pizzeria. New stores in the ticket office of-fice expansion complex are the Cookie Bear, Park City Photo, Village Gifts and Peek-a-Boo Restaurant. There's still some 1,000 square feet available for lease in the Village commercial commer-cial complex, Harling said. That's all the good news. The bad news is that lift tickets are going up to $20 for an all day, adult pass. That's up $2 from last season. The resort was down some 20 percent in skiing days last season over its previous best year, the 1979-80 season. (The year in between was a poor snow year.) Jones attributed at-tributed the drop to the general state of the nation's economy people were coming skiing but not staying so long and the fact that snow conditions were excellent throughout the country and skiers were staying closer to home. "Everybody had a bumper crop of snow, but we were all short of skiers," Jones said. LANDSCAPING THESODFATHER GUARANTEES... the best deals to be found in town. An offer like this can't be refused. He has the best service and equipment to deal with any job and can handle all your landscaping needs. Landscaping design & planning. Total , installation irom grass seeumy iu uees. Sprinkler system designs, installations and maintenance. Tractor & Backhoe work. Rock & Tie Wall Installation. HANKVERRONE The Sodfather Call 649-7090 The Newspaper's new Softball team, The Misprints, hit the ground stumbling, as it were, losing its first game of the season, 15-12 to a team of city employees Friday. The early moments of the game resulted in a lead for the Newspaper team, of 2-1. However, in one inning, the city team exploded ex-ploded with a phenomenal 9 runs, to pump that score up to 10 to 2. This was an astounding, but suspicious performance, even considering that the city team had such awesome-looking hitters as Bob Lashier and Wayne Putman In light of this, we have learned, the Summit County Grand Jury has subpoenaed city captain Jim Holcomb to answer charges that his team had access to highly potent illegal drugs, possibly obtained from confiscated police department stockpiles. Holcomb will also be asked to explain why his players spent much of their bleacher time swaying back and forth, and singing "Inna Gadda Da Vida." Regardless of the reason, The Newspaper was never able to catch up to that early lead set by the city. The team was suffering, understandably, from first-time-out jitters. A few players, however, admitted they had one beer too many before the game. This became apparent ap-parent when City Hall batters smashed the horsehide high and outside, while Misprintz outfielders responded with such comments as "What ball?" and "Is it first down yet?" (Actually, the loss was probably this writer's fault, even though I wasn't in the game. Back in high school, the teams always lost if I showed up to watch. And it was clear the old Brough jinx is still working. ) Most Valuable Player status went to Joy Rasmussen's dog, October, who was called out to second base when it became loose, and dug around it until it could be resecured. (Where was this mutt when we needed him for Park Avenue?) The Newspaper is pleading mitigating circumstances, cir-cumstances, and City Attorney Tom Clyde is researching the question. (Why not? What else would possibly be taking up his time? ) In the meantime, the team will play the Holiday Inn this Friday. Captain Liz Heimos predicts, "Ask not for whom the carillion tolls, it tolls for thee." The glitterati were present at a party in Salt Lake this weekend to raise money for the Park City's Utah Film and Video Festival. Jim and Tina Lewis were present, mixing with festival director Sue Barrell, "Utah Holiday" film critic Paul Swenson, and others. The major discovery of the party, however, was the tall, stunning Salt Lake woman who aroused whispers all evening. (Let's call her Marilyn for her own protection.) protec-tion.) Turns out she was a film-TV actress in the mid-60s. And she revealed to us that she had starred in one of the most colossally bad sci-fi sci-fi movies of all time 1965's "Frankenstein vs. the Space Monster." The film book "The Golden Turkeys" describes this picture as follows: "An astronaut, who's really a robot, battles th? invasion of Earth by an evil space queen and her army of badly-made-up midgets." Marilyn played the villainess in that one. A minor highlight of the evening was the brief appearance of some guy named Red-fern Red-fern or Redford. Parkite Bob Ziegler introduced in-troduced us to him as the actor passed through the crowd. 1 TRUER WORDS WERE NEVER SPOKEN: Utahns have had to put up with atomic tests, nuclear wastes, and poison stockpiles. So we should identify with the skit done last week by the Second City TV program, wherein a chemical company representative persuades a small-town mayor to let his firm set up a dumping ground in the vicinity. "I don't know. That sounds kind of THE SHOP in Park City No.4& 5 Corn-Park Plaza 1st block east of Anderson Lumber 649-1262 STOP WASTING GAS! Our "gas saver tune-up" is like getting a free gallon of gas with every fill up- 3 "X t- K 1 I tr ft If 3IeJ ! lUf I fesissJl In fa K J y ill dangerous," says the mayor. Replies the rep, with total reassurance, "No more dangerous than putting a baby's head in a buzz-saw." Don't let anyone tell you the Summit County Coun-ty grand jury hasn't changed the way things are done in Park City. Just the other day, two city officials were ordering sandwiches in the Main Street Deli with jury staffer Ralph Jones. As many of you know, the sandwich-makers sandwich-makers there get your name down on the order. or-der. So City Attorney Clyde placed his order. It was for "Tom", he said. City Police Chief Bell ordered his sandwich. sand-wich. Put down "Frank", he said. The county staffer placed his order. "What's the name?" they asked. "Mr. Jones", he replied. We can just imagine how they called that out: "Tom, the havarti! Frank, one hero on rye! Mr. Jones, the turkey! " Now that Bob and Doug MacKenzie, the "Great White North" brothers, have a Top 40 hit with "Take Off", we should note two other novelty records that KPCW is playing. One is by James Best, who plays the cretinous sheriff Roscoe Coltrane on "Dukes of Haz-zard". Haz-zard". His record is called "My Dog Flash". The other is by local TV pitchman Thomas "T-Buff" Buffington. The title of his song is-what is-what else-'Thanfe you! " Both of them are so awful, one must quote the immortal words of classical DJ Rick Lanman: "Why did they use up the vinyl to make these?" Neither one, however, is as bad as a record which KPCW once had Olivia Newton-John's Newton-John's version of "Angel of the Morning". This is possibly the worst song ever recorded by Western civilization. NOTES FROM THE THEATRICAL WORLD: Mack MacQuoid, who bought a bit role in a play at the Park City Performances auction, says he wants to play a part in PCP's version of "Music Man". (He looks like perfect type-casting to play a pool shark in the "Trouble in River City" number.) Mack said his wife won a part in "Night of the Iguana", and if she can cut the mustard, he can too. The first production of the summer season will be the Intermountain Actors Ensemble staging of "Taming of the Shrew" and "Henry IV, Part I" under the skies at ParkWest. Outdoor theater can have its disadvantages, as "Hotspur" and "Prince Hal" reportedly discovered at one nervous rehearsal. They practiced a fight with metal swords beneath storm clouds that had lightning light-ning crackling through the air. If Hotspur was unlucky, he might have lived up to his name with about 10,000 volts! Will we hear this ad for Park City in the future? Announcer: Just how smooth is the ride up the all-new, all-improved Park Avenue? We asked world-famous surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey to perform intricate heart-transplant heart-transplant surgery in the back of a Ford Econoline van traveling up Park Avenue. Can you tell us the results, doctor? DeBakey : The van itself was a dirty old thing with bad shocks, but the Avenue was so smooth, I had no trouble at all. Course, the patient got infectious later and died, but by then he wasn't my case. Announcer: Did the road give you successful suc-cessful body-organ maneuverability? DeBakey: Oh, sure. I could juggle those suckers around all day, without fear that any random bump or rut would throw my aim off. I would definitely recommend Park Avenue to any doctor who has to perform delicate surgery at 35 MPH. Announcer: You too can take the Park Avenue Challenge, even if you're not a fully-qualified fully-qualified surgeon! Do it today! We feature the best in electronic automotive testing -, THE ALLEN ENGINE ANALYZER Our exclusive 36 ooint aas complete check of the i cranking and charging system, ignition system r ana Tuei system. tal BURGERS (!: II BURGERS (for kids 12 & under when with a parent) FAMILY NIGHTS Mon.,Tues. & Wed Breakfast 8:30-10:30 (Mon. -Sat.) Brunch 10 -2 (Sunday) Lunch 11:30 -2 (Weekdays) 12 -3 (Saturday) Dinner 6:00-9:30 (Mon.-Thur) 6:00 10:00 (Fri. & Sat.) 368 Main St. 649-1570 S5N philipges. - at the Copperbottom Inn 1637 Shortline Road, Park City Featuring European specialities in the tradition of a' fine dining. 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