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❶ Pale Rider Filmed Fall/Winter 1984
Clint Eastwood and Malpaso Productions / Warner Brothers spend six weeks shooting “Pale Rider” in the mountains north of Sun Valley. It premiers at the Sun Valley Opera House the following summer.
❷ Bill Janss Interview Summer 1983
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A 10-page interview with Bill Janns, owner of Sun Valley from 1964 to 1977, explores his life as Olympic-level athlete, surfer, cowboy, pilot, land baron, world traveler, art collector, visionary and patron saint of skiers.
❸ Real Estate Slump of '82 Fall/Winter 1982
Construction is off 40-50%, with the largest home inventory in history (up to that point), and interest rates hold at 17-18%. But local realtors are optimistic, predicting an upswing fueled by homeowners moving toward multidwelling units. To prove the point, a $12 million, 31-unit luxury townhome community in Elkhorn breaks ground.
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❹ Speed Skiing Fall/Winter 1982
Locals Bruce Smith, Mark Poster, Lane Parrish and Scott Curtis are featured as the fastest non-motorized people in the world while competing on the international speed skiing circuit. Racing 100-plus miles per hour in a free-fall contest down a “course” set on an average 52-degree pitch, they drop 1,200 feet in a scant half mile. O n
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1980
Cover Girl Hemingway
Ladies of Sun Valley
Cover Girls
Summer/Fall 1982 Mariel Hemingway is Sun Valley Magazine’s cover girl on the first issue published under new owner and publisher Michael W. Riedel. The cover price of the magazine rises to $3 per issue.
Winter 1983 New owners Mike and Vicki Riedel change the cover design to feature “The Ladies of Sun Valley”—each cover now features a beautiful, athletic, fresh and outdoorsy woman who represents the Sun Valley lifestyle.
Winter/Spring 1986 Sun Valley Magazine Cover Girls include Mariel Hemingway, older sister Margaux Hemingway, actress Pamela Sue Martin, Brooke Shields, Olympic gold medalist Dorothy Hamill, Ketchum’s own Olympic medalist Christin Cooper, Steve McQueen’s widow Barbie McQueen, Gretchen Palmer (Wick) and many other local ladies.
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