On December 12, 1964, News 8 was at the ribbon cutting on Bristol Mountain!
Alas, there was hardly any snow that day. Instead, skiers found plenty of mud. After two days of thaw, there was no point running the snow-making machine.
But none of that prevented folks from attending the grand opening.
The mountain was cleared months earlier and the ski lodge built that fall.
Howard Samuels of Canandaigua snipped the ribbon. Samuels was a millionaire who by then had turned to career in politics. As a Democrat he made an unsuccessful bid for governor two years earlier.
Continue the trip down memory lane by visiting RochesterFirst.com
Credit: News8 Archive (WROC-TV)
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