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*** Updated ***
All photo album links corrected.
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NOTE: the background image is the Mt. Sunapee Summit lodge, built in 1963, with the “Wild Goose” statue on the deck.
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Postcards of Mt. Sunapee from 1948 thru the mid-1960s. The first chairlift was installed in 1948 on Mt. Sunapee by the state of NH. The winter postcards follow the summer-fall postcards in this album.
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Here is The History of Mt. Sunapee from 1909 to present from the official Mt. Sunapee website. This webpage includes skiing history from 1948 to present.
Mt. Sunapee - Early skiing history
Earlier skiing history (1890s to 1940s) was found at the SkiNH.com website (excerpt here)
“The Newport Ski Club was started in the 1890's by a Finnish community located in Newport. The club was active through the 1920's & 30's. In the early 1940's residents took notice of the financial success Cannon was enjoying & persuaded their political representatives to push for legislation which eventually became the Mt. Sunapee Tramway Bill in 1941. The Sunapee Tram was initially going to be used as a summer attraction but the war delayed construction and by 1946 the amount allotted for construction was judged to be not enough to purchase an aerial tram, but was enough to purchase a chairlift. Mt. Sunapee opened for skiing in 1948.”
(excerpted from the) obituary of Richard D. Parker, 97, who died May 18, 2012. Would I have loved to have known and spoken with him...
In the 1930s Newport Ski Club hand-cut a Class I ski trail on the southeast flank of Mount Sunapee above Newbury Harbor, and they built a log cabin at the top as a respite for racers before their timed schuss down the mountain.... This trail became known as the”Dick Durrance Race Trail”..
(excerpted from the Mountain Spirit Institute blog.) The Dick Durrance Ski Trail was the first ski trail on Mount Sunapee, cut by the Newport/Mt. Sunapee Ski Club. Members also built a cabin on the mountains southeast shoulder, at the top of this ski trail. The cabin’s logs came from the immediate area, and were all cut by hand. Hikers can still see the outline of the ski trail by observing the old growth line at trail’s edge...
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AT-6 Plane Crash Site Near Mt. Sunapee 
The crash site on Blood Mtn in Newbury, NH. This plane crashed on Nov 20, 1949 while piloted by John Moses while flying from Bridgeport, Conn to Boston, Mass...Some how he got lost in the low clouds and ended up crashing in western, NH just about 1 mile from Mount Sunapee.
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