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Most of the former ground floor level of the Head House is now taken up by the Rachel Griffin Historic Exhibition Center, a free museum. There are additional exhibits in the adjacent hallways so be sure to walk around. The chairs in this photo are wrought iron and wood, with rawhide straps for seats. The rawhide has been replaced, but otherwise they are the original furniture hand-made for the Lodge. A non-profit group called Friends of Timberline supports the Lodge and provides funding (and sometimes the labor) to restore, replace and preserve the Lodge and its treasures.
Does the lady sitting on the chair lift look strangely familiar? Chances are you've seen her before, maybe you even scribbled on her picture! Yes, she is the lady on the back cover of the famous Pee-Chee folders that were standard school supplies for almost every student for decades. She is sitting on the original Magic Mile Chair Lift that ran up Mt. Hood behind Timberline Lodge. The Magic Mile opened at Timberline in 1939, not long after the Lodge opened (remember the lodge was built to be a ski lodge in winter.) At the time it was built it was the longest ski lift in the world, was the second chair lift ever built anywhere, and was the first ski lift to use metal towers. The Silcox Hut on the mountain above the Lodge was originally the upper terminal for the Magic Mile lift. A double-chair lift replaced the original one in 1962, and the current Magic Mile lift is a detachable quad that was built in 1992.
The Barlow Room was formerly a coffee shop called the Ski Grill, and later called the Ski Deli. It is now used as a multi-purpose room. When not being used by a group it is open as a game room. Again you can see the Timberline Arch in the doorway. The carved wood gates were made by the WPA workers.
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