This is a photo of hunters, mounts and hounds gathered to await the signal of the horn to ride to the Rose Tree Fox Hunt in York County during November of 1967. If you are reading this on the Ydr.com site, click on this LINK for a Full View of
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Classics from YorksPast In 1992, York International Corporation built USA Luge a state-of-the-art refrigerated indoor training facility in Lake Placid, New York. The February 1998 issue of Popular Science, focusing on the science of the Olympics, discussed the rise of the USA Luge Team in world competitions. Quoting from page
As a long-time Olympic sponsor, York International Corporation was allowed to make Olympic Pins. This is a small sampling of those pins; shown at about twice size. Quoting from a February 4th, 1992, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper article: In addition, the company makes pins, sought worldwide by collectors, that bear York’s
In 1995, everything was in place, to close three blocks of South George Street for several hours, for members of the 1994 U. S. Olympic Luge Team to give sliding demonstrations using wheeled luge sleds. Unfortunately a constant drizzle on April 30th required a change of plans. Instead, inside the
The February 1998 issue of Popular Science, focusing on the science of the Olympics, discussed the rise of the U. S. Luge Team in world competitions. Quoting from page 73: The U. S. [Luge] team’s secret weapon is its training facility, the York International Luge Training Complex in Lake Placid,