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Skiing Pleasant Mountain

Kids load the T-bar, Bridgton, ca. 1955

Kids load the T-bar, Bridgton, ca. 1955

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Ski Museum of Maine

The latest in lift technology was slow to arrive in Maine.

The first T-bar, a revolutionary and fairly inexpensive ski lift that was invented in the 1930s by Swiss engineer Ernest Constam, came to the Pine Tree State in 1953 when Pleasant Mountain installed one to serve the Main Slope.