Word: skis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Provo canyon, Utah, raw land near the Sundance ski resort fetched $3,750 an acre in 1966. Today it goes for as much as $13,000-even though zoning restrictions prevent some buyers from building anything...
Affluence will also increase land demand for airports, marinas, ski lodges and especially vacation and retirement homes. Apartment dwellers no longer are content with a rented room by the seashore on their holidays; more and more yearn for their own cabin on Mosquito Lake. Older people who once took it for granted that they would move in with reluctant sons and daughters after retirement now count on relaxing in some sunny clime on the beaches and golf courses of Senior Citizen Acres. "Even if we attain zero population growth, we will continue to spread out across our open land like...
Canadian Lakes, Mich., sprawls across 5,200 acres of hills and woods an hour northeast of Grand Rapids. It boasts seven existing lakes and three more under construction, so to speak. An unusual feature: Donald J. Bollman, who owns the development lock, stock and ski slope, lives in a $500,00 Disneyesque concrete castle on the northern...
Beech Mountain, N.C., smack on top of an Appalachian mountain, is one of the South's largest ski areas. It could become crowded, because the developer, Carolina Caribbean Corp., plans to put about 8,500 single-family homes and 1,500 condominium units on its 7,200 acres. But the firm has set up its own water company, shopping center and police and volunteer fire departments to accommodate the crush...
Between bookings he lives with his wife Annie in a $150,000, split-level three-bedroom house on a wooded slope near Aspen. Folks coming to call on Denver sometimes have to track him down on nearby ski trails or golf courses or, at the very least, up on the roof in a glass-enclosed loft where he likes to watch eagles through a telescope. "There is no artifice to John," says Folk Singer Tom Paxton. "John is a Druid, a tree worshiper, an elf, a sprite." Just the man, perhaps, to take the curse off music that makes people...