Re: Loading Stock Cars in Gunnison Vintage Film

Jon Walden Wrote:
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> I've seen this video before, and have always
> enjoyed it. When I saw it posted here I decided to
> watch it again (because why not?) and did a double
> take about halfway through.
>
> The scenes of the cowboy riding above the valley
> looked very familiar. So I pulled up some photos
> from a few weekend trips to Crested Butte in
> recents years and found this. Some of you then and
> now photographers please try not to judge
>
> The screen shots from the YouTube video are pretty
> blurry, but you can make out the ridges in the
> background. The now shots are cell phone pictures
> taken behind the ski area at Mt Crested Butte
> while on a mountain biking trail. The side of the
> valley that I was on is quickly filling up with
> high priced get away homes, but the rest of the
> valley is pretty well untouched. I took these
> pictures because I thought it was pretty, I didn't
> make the connection with the video until just now.
> Pretty cool
> -Jon
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Jon

Those photos of "then and now" are awesome and funny you snapped those photos in nearly the same place the cameraman for the film was back in 1949. Nice to see that the terrain has changed very little, even some of the patches of trees look almost identical. Watching that film made me kind of homesick, reminding me of when I lived in Gunnison.

William
aka drgwk37