DAVID'S VINTAGE
SNOWMOBILE PAGE.
RESTORING THE
SPORT ONE PIECE AT A TIME.
SEE
THE HISTORY BEHIND THE
PICTURE
BY READING BELOW.
1965
JOHNSON SKEE HORSE SNOWMOBILE
1965
JOHNSON SKEE HORSE SNOWMOBILE
Hi
David. What a kind and thoughtful reply you sent to me! Thank you.
My
parents owned a hunting and fishing lodge in Presque Isle Wisconsin.
Johnson Skee-Horse approached them for
permission
to film on the resort property. I’m not sure how this morphed into
including our family in the pictures.
However,
my sister was a beautiful person, inside and out. I remember that the Johnson
Skee Horse reps saw her and
then
they really wanted her in the pictures. Actually my Mom was a bit
of a looker as well, so they asked if
she
would be in the advertisements too.
My
sister, Kathleen, is the blonde on the Skee-Horse wearing green snow pants.
She was a freshman in
high
school when the pictures were taken. My little brother asked the male model
if he was trying to marry our sister.
This
made my sister cringe. We laughed about that for years.
I
remember having to wear really colorful clothes even if they didn’t match.
We thought that was odd.
They
explained that our photos would be black and white so the contrast was
all that mattered, not colors.
They
told my dad that they wanted an ice fishing picture, and they just assumed
that a fish could be easily caught while filming.
My
dad laughed about that. He actually went out the day ahead and caught
a fish and kept it in a cooler, swimming, so that they
could
use it the next day for the photo shoot.
My
two brothers and I are in the Family Fun picture with my Mom. I remember
that we thought it was
weird
that they did not use our father and had another person be our pretend
Dad instead.
My
little brother and I always smile when we see the tagline of,
“Put
yourself in these pictures with the Johnson skee-horse”, since that is
exactly what we did!
We
had a lot of fun with the snowmobilers who stayed at our resort along with
the skiers/hunters/fisherman.
It
was a fun time to look back at and I will be eternally grateful for a copy
of the brochure.
In
fact I will frame it and hang it in our sports themed bar! Kristie
THANKS
KRISTIE FOR THE GREAT FAMILY HISTORY !
