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An interview with Kerri Hannon-Marsh conducted 2020-01-16.

An interview with Mark LaPoint and John "CJ" Mueller conducted 2020-03-03.

Interview with Michael McMenamy conducted 2018-11-20. McMenamy first came to Breckenridge at 11 years old in 1970 from Littleton, Colorado. His father owned 12 acres near Blue River at the time. They eventually bought a house at 301 South Main Street and that is where McMenamy grew up. His father started out as a bartender at Breckenridge Inn before becoming the Ski Patrol Director at Breckenridge Ski Resort. He would eventually become the Mountain Manager, overseeing the development of Peak 9.

Interview with Ric Rixon conducted 2018-04-30. Rixon originally came to Breckenridge around 1963 to go skiing with his dad. In 1966, his dad bought property in Huron Heights and began building a house. They came up to build on weekends through 1971 when Rixon moved to Breckenridge after graduating from high school.

Interview with Robert Atchison conducted 2018-12-01. This interview focuses on how Mrs. Rounds got the Norwegian Ski Team to come to Breckenridge and work at the ski school. He also discusses the ski area's various names and logos in the early days of operations.

Interview with Robert Atchison and Sandra Dallas conducted 2018-11-03. In this interview, Atchison and Dallas take the interviewer through a 16mm film about the Breckenridge area.

Interview with Robert Atchison and Sandra Dallas conducted 2018-08-02. Atchison first came to Breckenridge in December 1962 working in public relations for the Rounds family before Breckenridge Ski Resort officially opened in spring 1963. He and Dallas lived in an apartment above the information center on Main Street. Dallas and Atchinson married shortly after they moved here. Their child was the first and only child born in Breckenridge in the modern era because they could not get to the hospital in Leadville in time.

Interview with Trygve Berge conducted 2019-01-18. Berge originally came to Breckenridge in spring 1960. He had met Bill Rounds in Aspen, and after Bill's father passed away, Bill invited Berge to the area to check out his lumber company. Berge decided to move to Breckenridge shortly after his son was born in the summer of 1960. His family stayed in Aspen while he worked on a place to live. He initially began working in the lumber yard and stayed in a house on Main Street. He would then help to develop the ski area.

Interviews with John "CJ" Mueller

Interviews with Kerri Hannon-Marsh

Interviews with Mark LaPoint and John "CJ" Mueller

Postcards and photographic material created by photographer John Albert Topolnicki Sr. featuring the Colorado natural landscape, mountains, abandoned mine sites, ski areas and similar subjects. His photographs are considered the best historical record of Breckenridge Ski Resort and Summit County, Colorado landscapes in the early 1960s-1970s.