This is a page I'd like to add to. If you saved anything from your time at Pink Panther, take a picture or scan it and send it on to me.
Let's start with the ski hill's logo. Mark Cain tells me they never had trouble with the Pink Panther cartoon/movie's copyright lawyers. Perhaps it helped that they designed their own logo, which was slightly different than Hollywood's. Mark thinks that it was probably created by their grandfather, Roy and Don's father, who was an art teacher.
It was used on lift tickets, road signs, advertisements and other collateral material. They even had a large cutout of it that they kept in the A-Frame. The standing logo came from a 1970s Press Gazette ad for the hill. The skiing one came off Judy's 1972-73 season pass below.
My colleague, Todd Wiedemann, cleaned these up in photoshop. I had him add the arrow to the one to make it reminiscent of the highway sign. Mark said it was a good try, but the actual sign was a blue background with random snowflakes. The arrow was at the bottom, said "1 mile" on the arrow, and it and the Pink Panther's thumb pointed the other way. It still made me smile because the sign meant, "Almost there!"
An early lift ticket circa late 1960s. Thanks to Heidi Cain for the scan.
The Press Gazette Ski School patch we received after completing the 2 day class at Pink Panther. I have one of these somewhere in the archives, but thanks to Scott Crevier for saving me the trouble looking for it by sending me this scan.
A later lift ticket from the late 1970s. This is from the Eric Elfner collection.
Remembering that I started skiing in Sixth Grade and that I had a season pass after
my first year, I calculate this lift ticket to be from the 1978-79 ski season.
Remembering that I started skiing in Sixth Grade and that I had a season pass after
my first year, I calculate this lift ticket to be from the 1978-79 ski season.
Another one from the Elfner Archives, again from 1978-79.
This one is outstanding, a 1972-73 Season Pass. I had Snowburst ones for 1979-80 and 1980-81. They must be in a box somewhere. Thanks to Judy for sharing. I'm not going to use her last name since she whited it out here unless she tells me to. Thanks for sending!
Jeff Cain has an original Pink Panther T-Bar hanging in his
basement. According to Mark Cain, these were all created
and assembled in the East DePere High School wood shop.
In my discussions with Mark, he told me that they would have live music during the off-season. Thanks to Dave Cowles for saving this poster and sending me a picture. I did the math by looking at old calendars on https://www.timeanddate.com/ which told me those dates and days of the week in September make this poster from September 1976.
This is a vintage Tucker snow groomer that once stood outside Zeller's. Mark Cain does not think it was theirs, but they had one that was very similar. Also appropriately, Zeller's was one of the spots we got our ski gear, along with Valley Ski & Sports in West DePere.
From google, not Pink Panther, but we all wanted
yellow K2 Stingers to ski the Pink in the late 70s!
More artifacts (or really pictures of artifacts) are always appreciated!
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