What Is the Cat's Eye?
November 11th, 2024
Founded in the 1939/40 season, Catamount has a longer history than most ski areas, and with that history comes an immeasurable array of runs skied, memories created, and stories told. That history also brings a long list of logos, brochures, photos, and other marketing materials from across the decades. One such marketing material was the Cat's Eye.
If you have been a Catamount skier or rider for long enough, you may already be familiar with the Cat's Eye. The Cat's Eye was a promotional newspaper "insert" that ran in The Independent, a now defunct newspaper based in Hillsdale, NY, from roughly 1975 to 1990. "Insert" is in quotations because the Cat's Eye was in fact nearly a newspaper on it's own. Below you can check out the whopping 16 page Cat's Eye from fall/winter 1989, celebrating Catamount's 50th year since opening!
If you are having trouble reading any of the pages, you can right click on them, save/download the images, and then open them on your computer's photo viewing program to better zoom in.
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