1979 Photos: Construction of Mount Washington summit facilities

[bikehikeskifish]

Saw this link today on the NH State Parks Facebook page, showing the construction of the summit facilities. Hadn't seen these before.

Mount Washington State Park construction photos (Part 1)

Mount Washington State Park construction photos (Part 2)

Enjoy,
Tim

 

[MichaelJ]

Very cool. I wonder what the story is about the crane lying on its side. Oops.

 

[Tom Rankin]

Very cool. I wonder what the story is about the crane lying on its side. Oops.

Obviously it was an accident by a drunken worker! (Joke!) Some serious wind up there from time to time, I hear!

 

[TDawg]

Cool.

What a mess that must have been while construction was ongoing, though. Anyone here see it firsthand?

 

[Lefty E]

Cool.

What a mess that must have been while construction was ongoing, though. Anyone here see it firsthand?

I bet there are some here who could say they did see it first hand, and from photos of part 1, many at AMC who could give a talk on it!! Photo 5 looks like a real north country character, but he had some political pull!!

 

[Cath]

Thank you for posting the two photo links. That "north country character" has a few things named after him, and was instrumental in the Kanc becoming a maintained road in winter around the same year. In the next photo (6 in group 1) you can see he is wearing shorts during the ground-breaking. Wonder if he hiked up, or possibly down after the ceremony?

In group 2, photo 6, the man walking right next to the crane looks like Thornton's Bill Buckner

 

[woodstrider]

1979 photos...

Now that's what I call "Low Impact" !!!!

 

[Raymond]

I was up there on September 1 of that year and I know I have some slides somewhere in my closet, but I don’t remember much off the top of my head.

I’m picturing that tower being in a stage somewhere between the third and thirteenth photos of Part 2.

The previous summit house was still open; I had some lunch in the cafeteria.

Didn’t get up there again until 1997.