paradiseinn

"Paradise Inn is one of the oldest high-elevation mountain resorts in the Pacific northwest, and one of the earliest ski resorts in the nation. The Inn housed many of the competitors for the 1934-35 Olympic tryouts held at Paradise." – National Register

 
Paradise Inn – Then And Now (70+ years later)

"Paradise Inn (c.1935)" by UW Digital Coll.           "Paradise Inn (2008)"           by Karen Ellis
     
 

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the Paradise Inn as shared by the Seattle Municipal Archives: and more recently:

beautiful. but where's the snow?

Beautiful! -- Seen in the group"mountainsnaps" (?)

a beauty.

Here's one of my dad's old photos of Paradise Inn and my analysis that sheds some light on why the building in this shot doesn't look anything like Paradise Inn in most later photos: It appears that the building shown here and most of what's shown in my dad's old photo was actually the old northeast old wing of the Inn that was only there for a few years. The Inn itself was behind this wing. Though this looks like more than a "kitchen wing" there is documentation that the kitchen wing was demolished and replaced in 1935. See the second paragraph here: pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/87001336.pdf Under # 7 "Description".

Most likely this was taken in 1926, as the dog sled was probably part of the filming of "Heart of the Yukon". See this photo and description from the Tacoma Public Library collection.