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I.S.H..A. intends to continually offer new items on its Company Store pages of interest to skiers. These items may be purchased by mail, phone, fax or email.
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By mail: Send your order to ISHA, 530 Cheese Factory Rd., So Burlington VT 05403. Include your check, money order or Visa or Mastercard information and full shipping address.
Phone orders: 802-863-2511 x2020.
Email: Send your order, with credit card and shipping info, to isha@snet.net.
Item
#1
John Jay Memorial Issue
John Jay was the first national coast to coast ski film
lecturer. He shot the first U.S. rope tow at Woodstock,
Vermontt, in 1939 and kept at it until he shot the early
detachable chairs at Vail in the 1980s.If anyone could
have stood for the rise of alpine skiing in North
America, it was John Jay. Here for the first time, his
entire life story has been set down in print, including a
list of all the John Jay films ever shown, together with
the date. It is a real collector's item.
Item
#2
The
Winter Sport Of Skeeing by
Theodore Johnsen
$10 pp 5 1/2 by 7 1/2 60
This
is the first North American book in English on the sport, the second oldest
in the world. Published in Portland, Maine in 1905, and written by a cabinet
maker turned ski maker. It captures abundantly the charm and nostalgia
of the earliest days of North American skiing. The book is an exact reprint
of the original with an added introduction and an afterword with the story
of Theodore Johnson. There are illustrations of early ski technique and
some of the first ski photographs taken in the U.S. There are also ample
illustrations of theskis and ski equipment that Johnson was selling. The
book is a time machine back to 1900 when skiing was an infant sport. Limited
quantity.
Item
#3
Skiing
Heritage Back Issues
$15.00
for one issue, $12 each for two or more issues.
There are twelve years of back issues of Skiing Heritage available, way back to the year 1989. Early issues, when the magazine was called The Blizzard, then Snow News, sell for $10. To view issue contents, click here.
More posters and gifts are coming. In the meantime, buy posters, books or gifts at the Colorado Ski Museum Gift Shop.
International Skiing
History Association
JOURNAL
OF ISHA, THE INTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY ASSOCIATION
The
International Skiing History Association is a not-for-profit corporation,
whose mission is to preserve and advance the knowledge of ski history
and to increase public awareness of the sport's heritage.
ISHA,
530 Cheese Factory Rd., So. Burlington VT 05403 802-863-2511 x2020
Skiing Heritage, 133
South Van Gordon St #300, Lakewood CO 80228 303-987-1111