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87-465: Saks Fifth Avenue (originally Saks & Company ; colloquially Saks ) is an American luxury department store chain founded by Andrew Saks and headquartered in New York City . The original Saks opened in the F Street shopping district of Washington, D.C. in 1867. Saks expanded into Manhattan with its Herald Square store in 1902 and flagship store on Fifth Avenue in 1924. The chain

174-669: A confused identity, and outdated facade. After Gimbels decided to close the division, the first floor of the building was used as a Christmas season annex for Gimbel's before being sold to the E. J. Korvettes chain. After the demise of the Korvette's chain the building was remodeled into the Herald Center, in 1985. As of 2016 the primary tenant is H&M, following another remodel. The original Saks Fifth Avenue store in Beverly Hills, California, at 9600 Wilshire Boulevard ,

261-847: A larger location. By the end of the 1930s, Saks Fifth Avenue had a total of 10 stores – the 2 large urban flagships in New York and Chicago, and 8 resort stores. During World War Two, Saks opened Navy and Army shops in New Haven, Connecticut and Princeton, New Jersey , and after the war turned the small branches into University Shops, catering to the Ivy League communities there. More University Shops would open, one near Harvard in Cambridge, Mass. , another in Ann Arbor, Michigan (1960). Saks had already opened two urban flagship stores before

348-501: A mall in 1954, at Sunrise Center, now The Galleria at Fort Lauderdale . A few of the new suburban stores were freestanding in suburbs that had a significant downtown shopping district, such as in White Plains, New York (1954) and both Garden City, Long Island and Surfside , near Miami in 1962. A few were in malls built in downtowns, such as New Orleans, Boston, and Minneapolis. But most new SFA stores, dozens, opened in malls over

435-514: A moderate vertical drop of 628 feet (191 m). The term "Sun Valley" is used more generally to speak of the region surrounding the city, including the neighboring city of Ketchum and the Wood River Valley area winding south to Hailey and Bellevue . The region has been a seasonal home to the rich and famous since first being brought to public attention by Ernest Hemingway in the late 1930s. Scheduled passenger airline service

522-635: A name or term commonly used to identify a person or thing in non-specialist language, in place of another usually more formal or technical name. In the philosophy of language , "colloquial language" is ordinary natural language , as distinct from specialized forms used in logic or other areas of philosophy. In the field of logical atomism , meaning is evaluated in a different way than with more formal propositions . Colloquialisms are distinct from slang or jargon . Slang refers to words used only by specific social groups, such as demographics based on region, age, or socio-economic identity. In contrast, jargon

609-590: A new location in Greenwich, Connecticut . In autumn 2015, Saks announced it would replace its existing store at the Houston Galleria with a new store. On January 15, 2021, Saks Fifth Avenue unveiled a 54,000-square-foot (5,000 m) space on the fifth floor of its New York flagship, branded Barneys at Saks . The collaboration is aimed at continuing Barneys New York tradition of unearthing and promoting emerging designers. On January 25, SFA launched

696-481: A part of the New York division of Gimbels (later Manhattan Mall ), and a sky bridge across 33rd Street connected the second floors of both flagship buildings. In the 1947 movie Miracle on 34th Street the facade of Saks-34th Street is shown in a scene that focuses on the Gimbel's flagship store. Branch locations were opened around the greater New York area. The store closed in 1965, citing poor layouts, no escalators,

783-489: A ranch in the area. Other notable residents have included Scott Glenn , Richard Dreyfuss , Clint Eastwood , Sondra Locke and Janet Leigh . Sun Valley's oldest resident was former actress and silent movie star Barbara Kent . Another resident was actress Ann Sothern . Hollywood actor, politician, and businessman, Arnold Schwarzenegger is a frequent visitor of Sun Valley and owns a residence in Ketchum, ID. He has

870-526: A reported $ 2.65 billion merger. In 2005, vendors filed against Saks alleging unlawful chargebacks . The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigated the complaint for years and, according to the New York Times , "exposed a tangle of illicit tactics that let Saks... keep money it owed to clothing makers", inflating Saks' yearly earnings up to 43% and abusively collecting around $ 30 million from suppliers over seven years. Saks settled with

957-603: A section carved out of the building housing the flagship of its namesake department store, Hudson's Bay Company , connected by sky bridge to the largest downtown mall, Eaton Centre . A second Greater Toronto location opened at Sherway Gardens shortly thereafter. And in February 2018, its third Canadian store opened in Calgary at Chinook Centre . In 2015 Saks began a $ 250 million, three-year restoration of its Fifth Avenue flagship store. In October 2015, Saks announced

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1044-575: A separate autonomous subsidiary. On September 15, 1924, Horace Saks and Bernard Gimbel opened in the Saks Fifth Avenue Building at 611 Fifth Avenue, with a full-block avenue frontage south of St. Patrick's Cathedral , facing what would become Rockefeller Center . The architects were Starrett & van Vleck , who developed a design derived from classical architecture . When Bernard's cousin, Adam Gimbel, became president of Saks Fifth Avenue in 1926 after Horace Saks's sudden death,

1131-638: A ski run named after him. During World War II , the resort was closed in 1942 and converted to a convalescent hospital for the U.S. Navy (Pacific Theater), which was operational in July 1943. It re-opened to the public in December 1946. After the war, the resort's clinic operated on the third floor of the northern wing of the Sun Valley Lodge (wing closest to the Trail Creek Rd.) until

1218-497: A storefront in the Avenue House Hotel building at 517 (300–308) 7th Street, N.W., in what is still Washington's downtown shopping district . Saks offered his goods at one price only, no bargaining, and offered refunds on merchandise returns, neither of which were the more common practice at that place and time. Saks was also known for its "forceful and interesting, but strictly truthful" newspaper advertising, according to

1305-398: A triple. A daily lift ticket for Baldy during Holding's first season (1977–78) was priced at $ 13. Under Holding's ownership there have been substantial improvements on the mountain: extensive snowmaking and grooming, high-capacity chairlifts, and the construction of four impressive day lodges, a gondola , and the renovation of the classic Roundhouse restaurant. The resort's golf course

1392-429: A very large store in 1902 in New York City 's Herald Square on 34th Street and Broadway . Andrew Saks ran the New York store as a family business with his brother Isadore, and his sons Horace and William. Andrew Saks died in 1912 and his son Horace took over the company's management. In 1923, Saks & Co. merged with Gimbel Brothers, Inc. , which was owned by a cousin of Horace Saks, Bernard Gimbel , operating as

1479-615: A widow, family friend, and mother of five, including World Cup racer Christin Cooper , silver medalist in the women's giant slalom at the 1984 Winter Olympics . Under Janss' ownership, the Elkhorn area southeast of Dollar Mountain was developed by the Sun Valley Company and Johns-Manville , beginning in 1972. During excavation, ancient tools dating back nearly 7,000 years were discovered. Elkhorn's golf course

1566-400: Is colloquial . Colloquialism or general parlance is distinct from formal speech or formal writing . It is the form of language that speakers typically use when they are relaxed and not especially self-conscious. An expression is labeled colloq. for "colloquial" in dictionaries when a different expression is preferred in formal usage, but this does not mean that the colloquial expression

1653-494: Is 120 feet (37 m) below the summit at 9,030 feet (2,750 m), at the top of three chairlifts. Built 51 years ago in 1973, it is the ground floor of a multi-story building that was never completed, resulting in its "basement-like" atmosphere. Nevertheless, the mountain views from this near-summit lodge are quite impressive. However, the resort's recently approved master plan has the facility slated for eventual replacement. Four additional high-speed quads were installed in

1740-640: Is 3 floors tall and 91,000 square feet (8,500 m) in size. In 2012 , the Riyadh franchise store, owned by Prince Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud , closed after the licensing agreement expired. As of 2013 , the New York flagship store, whose real estate value was estimated between $ 800 million and over $ 1 billion at the time, generated around 20% of Saks' annual sales at $ 620 million, with other stores being less profitable according to analysts. On July 29, 2013 , Canada -based Hudson's Bay Company (HBC),

1827-518: Is 57,000 square feet (5,300 m) in size. After closing Riyadh and its 2 Dubai stores, it remains Saks' sole store in the Middle East. In 2004 , Saks was enjoying an annual sales growth rate of 7.7% on a same-store basis, but was underperforming Neiman Marcus (+17%) and Nordstrom (+10%). In Southern California, analysts said that SFA was "struggling to maintain its cachet" against the two competitors and Bloomingdales. On October 1, Saks announced

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1914-598: Is a barrier to communication for those people unfamiliar with the respective field. Sun Valley, Idaho Sun Valley is a resort city in the western United States, in Blaine County, Idaho , adjacent to the city of Ketchum in the Wood River valley. The population was 1,783 at the 2020 census . The elevation of Sun Valley (at the Lodge) is 5,920 feet (1,805 m) above sea level . Among skiers,

2001-748: Is available at Friedman Memorial Airport (SUN) in Hailey , approximately fifteen miles (25 km) south. Visitors are relatively close to the Sawtooth National Recreation Area , accessed over Galena Summit on State Highway 75 , the Sawtooth Scenic Byway . The first destination winter resort in the U.S. was developed by W. Averell Harriman , the chairman of the Union Pacific Railroad , primarily to increase ridership on U.P. passenger trains in

2088-583: Is just off Trail Creek Road, about a mile northeast of the Sun Valley Lodge. You can still visit a number of locations that have Hemingway ties, including the Ketchum Cemetery. Sun Valley was featured (and promoted) in the 1941 movie Sun Valley Serenade , starring Sonja Henie , John Payne , Milton Berle , and bandleader Glenn Miller . Scenes were shot at the resort in March 1941. Sun Valley transfer local and future gold medalist Gretchen Fraser

2175-423: Is most commonly used within specific occupations, industries, activities, or areas of interest. Colloquial language includes slang, along with abbreviations, contractions, idioms, turns-of-phrase, and other informal words and phrases known to most native speakers of a language or dialect. Jargon is terminology that is explicitly defined in relationship to a specific activity, profession, or group. The term refers to

2262-554: Is necessarily slang or non-standard . Some colloquial language contains a great deal of slang, but some contains no slang at all. Slang is often used in colloquial speech, but this particular register is restricted to particular in-groups, and it is not a necessary element of colloquialism. Other examples of colloquial usage in English include contractions or profanity . "Colloquial" should also be distinguished from "non-standard". The difference between standard and non-standard

2349-400: Is not necessarily connected to the difference between formal and colloquial. Formal, colloquial, and vulgar language are more a matter of stylistic variation and diction , rather than of the standard and non-standard dichotomy. The term "colloquial" is also equated with "non-standard" at times, in certain contexts and terminological conventions. A colloquial name or familiar name is

2436-648: Is now a large off-price retailer in its own right. Andrew Saks was born to a German Jewish family, in Baltimore , Maryland . He worked as a peddler and paper boy before moving to Washington, D.C. , where at the age of only 20, and in the still-chaotic and tough economic times of 1867, two years after the United States prevailed in the American Civil War , he established a men's clothing store with his brother Isadore. A. Saks & Co. occupied

2523-511: The 2007–2009 recession , Saks had to cut prices and profit margins, thus according to Reuters "training shoppers to expect discounts. It took three years before it could start selling at closer to full price". In 2012 , Saks licensed its first store in Central Asia , in Almaty , Kazakhstan, at the then-new Esentai Mall , together with boutiques of international luxury brands. SFA Almaty

2610-578: The 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York , spurred an increase in participation in winter sports (and alpine skiing in particular). A lifelong skier, Harriman determined that America would embrace a destination mountain resort, similar to those enjoyed in the Swiss Alps , such as St. Moritz and Davos . During the winter of 1935–36, Harriman enlisted the services of an Austrian Sportsman, Count Felix von Schaffgotsch , to travel across

2697-450: The 1964 Olympics . The Austrians swept the men's downhill ( Heini Messner , Karl Schranz , and Egon Zimmermann ), while Jean-Claude Killy of France won the slalom, with Schranz as runner-up. The two switched places in the one-run giant slalom . Erika Schinegger of Austria, Nancy Greene of Canada, and Marielle Goitschel of France were the top three in the women's downhill, while Goitschel and teammate Annie Famose finished 1–2 in

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2784-500: The Eastern Front during World War II .) The centerpiece of the new resort was the Sun Valley Lodge, which opened on December 21, 1936. The 220-room, X-shaped lodge's exterior was constructed of concrete, poured inside rough-sawn forms. The wood grain was impressed on the concrete finish, which was acid-stained brown to imitate wood. The Swiss-style Sun Valley Inn (originally the " Challenger Inn") and village were also part of

2871-518: The Grand America Hotels & Resorts . Holding was initially distrusted by many locals: "Earl is a Four Letter Word" was a popular bumper sticker in the late 1970s in Blaine County . But time proved that Holding did not buy the resort for property speculation; like his other assets he meant to operate and improve for the long-term. One of his first changes was the removal the archaic single-seat chairlift on Exhibition, replacing it with

2958-579: The Ketchum area in central Idaho . A U.P. employee in Boise had casually mentioned that the rail spur to Ketchum cost the company more money for snow removal than any other branch line and the Count went to explore. Schaffgotsch was impressed by the combination of Bald Mountain and its surrounding mountains, adequate snowfall, abundant sunshine, moderate elevation, and absence of wind, and selected it as

3045-768: The U.P. headquarters in Omaha in the summer of 1936. The chairlift went on to replace primitive rope tow and other adaptations seen at ski areas at the time. The original Proctor Mountain Ski Lift is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Author Ernest Hemingway completed For Whom the Bell Tolls , while staying in suite 206 of the Lodge in the fall of 1939. Averell Harriman had invited Hemingway and other celebrities, primarily from Hollywood , to

3132-573: The war ). The railroad's management had called in the Janss Corporation as consultants and it was determined that it would take a lot of work and no less than $ 6 million for a face-lifting. The Union Pacific decided to sell and brothers Ed and Bill Janss bid just under $ 3 million. During this Janss era of ownership, the north-facing Warm Springs area was developed, as well as Seattle Ridge, and condominium and home construction increased significantly. Seven chairlifts were added, and

3219-654: The "Sun Valley International Open", the Harriman Cup races were the first major international ski competitions held in North America, beginning in 1937. The first three competitions of 1937–39 were held in the Boulder Mountains north of Sun Valley. Beginning in 1940, the Harriman Cup was held on the Warm Springs side of Bald Mountain, decades before chairlifts were installed on that north face of

3306-555: The 1990s. Two of these replaced older chairlifts on River Run (1992) and Seattle Ridge (1993), and two cut brand new paths: Lookout Express (1993) and Frenchman's (1994). The chairlift from River Run was purchased by Eldora Mountain Resort in Colorado. Baldy's 13 chairlifts have a capacity of over 23,000 skiers per hour. With an average of 3,500 skiers per day (& less than 6,000 skiers per day during peak periods), Sun Valley has kept

3393-554: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ." In a court filing, the United States Department of Justice rebuked Saks' argument, stating that "discrimination against an individual based on gender identity is discrimination because of sex." The Human Rights Campaign removed the company from its list of " allies " during the controversy. The lawsuit was settled out of court with undisclosed terms. In 2017, following

3480-512: The SEC in 2007, after firing three or more executives involved in the fraudulent activities. In 2014, Saks fired transgender employee Leyth Jamal after she was allegedly "belittled by coworkers, forced to use the men's room and repeatedly referred to by male pronouns (he and him)". After Jamal submitted a lawsuit for unfair dismissal, the company stated in a motion to dismiss that "it is well settled that transsexuals are not protected by Title VII of

3567-728: The Sun Valley Community Hospital was built in 1961. That facility was named after Dr. John Moritz when he retired in 1973; the Nebraska-born surgeon had served as the resort's year-round physician for 33 years. The Moritz Hospital was closed shortly after the new St. Luke's branch hospital opened (south of Ketchum) in November 2000 and the Moritz building now serves as employee housing. After World War II , Harriman focused on his career in government service and

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3654-574: The U.S. joined the war: its now-legendary store in Beverly Hills , and in Detroit (1940). After the war, three more downtown stores opened, albeit smaller in scale: Pittsburgh (1949), Philadelphia (1952) and San Francisco (1952) where Saks competed head-on with local luxury champion I. Magnin . During the 1950s, the shift from downtown shopping to suburban shopping malls gained momentum. Saks Fifth Avenue's first anchor department store in

3741-546: The Union Pacific gradually lost interest in the resort. Rail service to Ketchum was discontinued in 1964 and that November the resort was sold to the Janss Investment Company , a major southern California real estate developer , headed by a former Olympic ski team member, Bill Janss (1918–96), founder of Snowmass . (Janss was an alternate on the 1940 team, but the games were cancelled due to

3828-650: The Washington Evening Star , including a two-page spread, large for that time, in that newspaper on April 4, 1898. Saks annexed the store next door, and in 1887 started building a large new store on the site of the old Avenue Hotel Building at 7th and Market Space (now United States Navy Memorial Plaza ). By 1896, Saks and Co. had stores in Norfolk and Richmond, Virginia; New York City; and Indianapolis, in addition to Washington, D.C., where, Saks called itself "Washington's Wonderful Store". Saks opened

3915-668: The Western U.S. to locate an ideal site for a winter resort. The Count toured Mount Rainier , Mount Hood , Yosemite , the San Bernardino Mountains , Zion , Rocky Mountain National Park , the Wasatch Range , Pocatello , Jackson Hole , and Grand Targhee areas. Late in his trip and on the verge of abandoning his search for an ideal location for a mountain resort development, he backtracked toward

4002-643: The Western United States. The UP's City of Portland (from Chicago and Omaha) and Portland Rose (from Kansas City) went to Shoshone in southern Idaho, where buses (then called "motor coaches") took travelers to Sun Valley. Sleeping car passengers from Los Angeles were able to take direct carriages on the UP's Pony Express from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City, and the Sun Valley Special from Salt Lake City to Sun Valley. The success of

4089-782: The acquisition, Proffitt's, Inc. changed its name to Saks, Inc. In November 2001 the first Middle East SFA opened at Kingdom Centre in Riyadh , Saudi Arabia. The store closed in 2012. In 2005 , Saks opened a 80,000 square foot store at the BurJuman Centre in Dubai which closed in 2016; the store was Saks last store in the UAE after failed attempts at expansion. In 2008 , Saks opened its third Middle East store at City Centre Bahrain in Manama , Bahrain . The store has two floors and

4176-639: The affluent urban neighborhood of Polanco at Plaza Carso in 2010, but it closed in October 2020. In August 2007 , the United States Postal Service began an experimental program selling the plus ZIP code extension to businesses. The first company to do so was Saks Fifth Avenue, which received the ZIP code of 10022-7463 ("SHOE", on a U.S. touch-tone keypad) for the eighth-floor shoe department in its flagship Fifth Avenue store. During

4263-551: The base of Warm Springs in the fall of 1992, replacing the 1960s "Northface Hut" cafeteria. Similar day lodges were later opened at the Seattle Ridge summit (1993), and the River Run base (1995). A fire of undetermined origin damaged the Warm Springs lodge in 2018; it occurred shortly after the end of the ski season , while unoccupied at night in mid-April. An older cafeteria, the modest one-floor "Lookout Restaurant",

4350-400: The chairlift on Dollar Mountain is still standing. One of the early single chairlifts was transported to Cordova, Alaska in the 1970s where it now serves Mount Eyak Ski Area as the oldest operating charlift in the world. The U.P. chairlift design was adapted by an engineer recalling banana loading conveyor equipment used for tropical fruit ships' cargo. Single-seat chairlifts were developed at

4437-609: The closing of 8 underperforming, mostly smaller SFA stores: Pasadena, Palos Verdes, Mission Viejo, La Jolla and Carmel in California, Garden City NY, Hilton Head SC, and Downtown Minneapolis. In November 2007 , Grupo Sanborns , part of billionaire Carlos Slim 's corporate empire, secured a franchise and opened the first SFA store in Mexico , on the affluent far west side of Mexico City at Centro Santa Fe , that country's largest mall. The store closed in 2022. Another store opened in

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4524-444: The clothes. New departments for furs, corsets, gifts and debutante dresses were added in the 1940 expansion. The store relocated to the adjacent 9570 Wilshire Boulevard in 2024, and the original location will be converted into a mixed-use development by Hudson's Bay Company . Colloquialism A specific instance of such language is termed a colloquialism. The most common term used in dictionaries to label such an expression

4611-425: The company announced a collaboration with WeWork to convert some SFA spaces to co-working locations. In June 2022, Saks announced that it would convert the original 1938 store building in Beverly Hills , 9600 Wilshire , into offices and apartments. SFA Beverly Hills continues to operate from the former I. Magnin and Barneys buildings, which had previously been incorporated into the store complex. In August of

4698-597: The company expanded, opening seasonal resort branches in Palm Beach (1926), Atlantic City (1927), Lincoln Road in Miami Beach (1929), Southampton on Long Island (1931), Newport, Rhode Island (1935), Sun Valley, Idaho and Westbury, L.I. (1936), and Greenwich, Connecticut (1937). In 1929, Saks opened its first full-line, year-round flagship store in Chicago , in 1929, and only six years later moved to

4785-776: The decades through the 1990s. More expansion followed through in the 1990s particularly into Texas, Florida and California. California -based I. Magnin closed in 1995, allowing Saks to acquire some of their locations and open in San Diego's Fashion Valley and expand in Carmel . As in the 1950s, the company opened a wave of smaller "Main Street" stores in suburbs with downtown shopping, such as Pasadena , Santa Barbara , and San Diego's La Jolla in California, and in Greenwich, Connecticut , and Charleston, South Carolina . In Texas , Saks acquired 3 Texas locations where Marshall Fields

4872-412: The end of the decade, adding Palm Beach Gardens, Naples, Fort Myers, Orlando, Sarasota, Tampa and doubled the size of its Boca Raton store. Also in 1990, the company launched " Saks Off 5th ", an outlet store offshoot of the main brand, with 107 stores worldwide by 2016. In 1998, Proffitt's, Inc. the parent company of Proffitt's and other department stores, acquired Saks Holdings Inc. Upon completing

4959-523: The events of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, Saks's San Juan store in Mall of San Juan suffered major damages along with its neighboring anchor store Nordstrom . Taubman Centers , the company which owns the mall, filed a lawsuit against Saks for failing to provide an estimated reopening date and failing to restore damages after the hurricane due to a binding contract. Although Nordstrom reopened on November 9, 2018, Saks Fifth Avenue vacated The Mall of San Juan after two years of ligitation. Saks-34th Street

5046-551: The fall of 1975, covering 40 acres (16 ha) up to an elevation of 8,200 feet (2,500 m) The original Seattle Ridge double chairlift was installed in 1976, but due to a very poor snow year in 1976–77 it was not operated until December 20, 1977, christened by local legend Gretchen Fraser. Janss also has a ski run named after him, called "Janss Pass", to the skier's left of the Frenchman's chairlift. Janss' wife Ann, age 54, died in early 1973 while helicopter skiing near Sun Valley. Later that year, Janss married Mrs. Glenn Cooper,

5133-566: The first standalone Barneys at Saks store in a 14,000-square-foot (1,300 m) location in Greenwich, Connecticut . This marked the first time Saks had offered men's clothing and furnishings in that market. In March, HBC and growth capital investor, Insight Partners , established Saks Fifth Avenue's ecommerce business as a stand-alone entity, known as "Saks". Insight Partners made a $ 500 million minority equity investment in Saks. The retailer's 39-store fleet operates separately as an entity referred to as "SFA," which remains wholly owned by HBC. At

5220-403: The golden anniversary and again in 2004. The Sun Valley Inn was also remodeled in 2018 . The Sun Valley Golf Course saw significant improvement in the summer of 2008, with the opening of the new "White Cloud Nine" course on the site of the old Gun Club (relocated further down along Trail Creek road), as well as the opening of the "Sun Valley Club", a full service golf course club house built in

5307-413: The initial resort, opening in 1937. Hannagan wanted swimming pools at the resort, "so people won't think skiing is too cold." Both the Lodge and the Inn have heated outdoor swimming pools, circular in shape. Hannagan had the pools designed this way, unique at the time, in the hope they would be widely photographed, providing free publicity, and it worked. The world's first chairlifts were installed on

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5394-419: The language used by people who work in a particular area or who have a common interest. Similar to slang, it is shorthand used to express ideas, people, and things that are frequently discussed between members of a group. Unlike slang, it is often developed deliberately. While a standard term may be given a more precise or unique usage amongst practitioners of relevant disciplines, it is often reported that jargon

5481-410: The lift lines to a minimum, a rarity among major resorts. The Dollar mountain Lodge opened in November 2004. This day lodge replaces the Dollar Cabin, and also serves as the headquarters for the Sun Valley Ski School. It is similar in construction to the newer day lodges at the big mountain. The interior of the original Sun Valley Lodge has been remodeled twice during Holding's ownership, in 1985 for

5568-435: The mountain. American Dick Durrance won three of the first four Harriman Cups, stunning the overconfident Europeans. In the final season before the launch of the World Cup, Sun Valley hosted the world's top racers in 1966 at the "American International" in late March, with a full slate of races for both men and women. With the 1966 World Championships not run until August, it was one of the biggest alpine racing events since

5655-427: The near future. In 2009, the resort installed the "Roundhouse Express Gondola " on Bald mountain, which runs from the mountain's River Run Base to the Roundhouse Restaurant (located midway up the mountain, at 7,700 feet (2,350 m)). The Exhibition triple chairlift (originally a single-chair in 1939) was removed with the addition of the new enclosed 8-passenger lift. The new gondola carries skiers (and non-skiers) to

5742-401: The number of trails increased from 33 to 62. The first two double chairs on Warm Springs were installed in series in 1965; the upper "Limelight" had a 2,200-foot (670 m) vertical rise, the greatest in the U.S. at the time for a chairlift. Bill Janss bought out his brother's share of the resort and gained full control of Sun Valley in 1968. Snowmaking was introduced on a limited basis in

5829-432: The oldest commercial corporation in North America and owner of the competing chain Lord & Taylor , announced it would acquire Saks Fifth Avenue's parent company for US$ 2.9 billion. Canada expansion plans were drafted, calling for up to seven SFA stores across the country, of which three eventually opened. In February 2016, it opened a 150,000 sq ft (14,000 m) Saks Fifth Avenue in downtown Toronto , in

5916-422: The resort to help promote it. Gary Cooper was a frequent visitor and hunting/fishing partner, as were Clark Gable , Errol Flynn , Lucille Ball , Marilyn Monroe , and several members of the Kennedy family . Hemingway was a part-time resident over the next twenty years, eventually relocating to Ketchum ("Papa" and his fourth wife are buried in the Ketchum Cemetery). The Hemingway Memorial, dedicated in 1966,

6003-415: The resort's Proctor and Dollar mountains in the fall of 1936. (Proctor Mountain is northeast of Dollar Mountain). They have since been removed, but parts of the base of the Proctor Mountain chairlift can still be seen near the Proctor Mountain trail, along with a plaque identifying the area as the location of the world's first chairlift. Additionally, the original lift operator's station (now repainted) for

6090-406: The resort. In 2006, Forbes magazine estimated that Sun Valley was worth in the range of $ 300 million. In the years before the World Cup circuit, the Harriman Cup at Sun Valley was one of the major ski races held in North America, along with the "Snow Cup" at Alta , the "Roch Cup" at Aspen Mountain , and the "Silver Belt" races at Sugar Bowl , north of Lake Tahoe . Originally known as

6177-445: The restaurant for lunch and eventually dinner year-round; the mid-mountain lodge was built 85 years ago in 1939 and remodeled in 2010 to accommodate its new year-round role. Sun Valley opened a new 380-acre (1.5 km ) expansion in 2021, which included the new Broadway chairlift, a high-speed quad, and the removal of the nearby Cold Springs chairlift (fixed-grip double). Earl Holding died in April 2013 and his family continues to run

6264-597: The same year, Grupo Sanborns announced that in 2023, it would close its SFA franchise store at Centro Santa Fe in Mexico City , the only store still operating in Mexico after the closure of the Polanco store two years earlier. A branch of Sears Mexico , also part of Grupo Sanborns, was to replace it, and staff were to be retained. In July 2024 Saks announced that it planned to acquire rival retailer Neiman Marcus in

6351-410: The site. Harriman visited several weeks later and agreed. The 3,888-acre (15.73 km ) Brass Ranch was purchased for about $ 4 per acre and construction commenced that spring; it was built in seven months for $ 1.5 million. Publicist Steve Hannagan named the resort "Sun Valley" and developed the tag line: "Winter sports under a summer sun". (Count Schaffgotsch returned to Austria and was killed on

6438-487: The slalom discipline). A young Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden, perhaps the greatest technical ski racer ever, took the giant slalom title both years. Thoeni and Stenmark left Idaho tied in the overall standings in 1975, which Thoeni won in the finals of a parallel slalom the next week in Italy. Phil Mahre of White Pass , Washington , age 19, won the 1977 slalom race over Stenmark, with twin brother Steve placing third. It

6525-439: The slalom. Goitschel, Greene, and Famose were the top finishers in the giant slalom and France took the overall team title. In March 1975 and 1977 , Sun Valley hosted World Cup ski races, with slalom and giant slalom events for both men and women, run on the Warm Springs side of the mountain. The 1975 slalom was won by Gustavo Thoeni , the dominant World Cup skier of the early 1970s (which turned out to be his last win in

6612-508: The style of the resort's mountain day lodges, replacing a much smaller and older facility. The year also saw the opening of the "Sun Valley Pavilion", built in partnership with the Sun Valley Summer Symphony as a permanent home for the orchestra's annual three-and-a-half-week series of free concerts. The Pavilion is a performing arts facility that has hosted several well-known musical artists and more slated to perform in

6699-472: The term "Sun Valley" refers to the alpine ski area , which consists of Bald Mountain , the main ski mountain adjacent to Ketchum. Dollar Mountain , which is adjacent to Sun Valley, is suited for novice and lower intermediate skiers. Bald Mountain, or "Baldy", best suited for intermediate to advanced and expert skiers, has a summit of 9,150 feet (2,790 m) and a vertical drop of 3,400 feet (1,035 m). The treeless "Dollar" at 6,638 feet (2,023 m) has

6786-474: The time of the separation, HBC named Marc Metrick, CEO of Saks, the ecommerce business. Metrick was previously president of Saks Fifth Avenue since 2015. In April, Saks announced that it would close all 27 of its fur salons, among which New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Beverly Hills, by the end of January 2022. The company also said that by January 2023, it would stop sales of products made from fur of wild animals or from animals raised for their fur. In August,

6873-636: Was Phil's second win (he had won a GS in France in December), but his first victory in the slalom and first in the U.S., and being from the Northwest , very close to home. The present ownership has declined to host any World Cup races since, as it involves closing off runs for a significant time. But during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake (about 300 miles (480 km) to the southeast), Sun Valley

6960-409: Was a fashion-focused middle market department store at 1293-1311 Broadway on Herald Square. The building, built in 1902, had seven stories and was designed by Buchman & Fox. The store was spun off from Saks & Company when that upscale retailer moved to Fifth Avenue, a location that Saks Fifth Avenue maintains to this day. The newly renamed Saks-34th Street was sold to Bernard F. Gimbel, and became

7047-471: Was acquired by Tennessee-based Proffitt's, Inc. (renamed Saks, Inc. ) in 1998, and Saks, Inc. was acquired by the Hudson's Bay Company in 2013. As of March 2021, Saks Fifth Avenue's brick-and-mortar stores and e-commerce platform operate as separate companies, distinguished as SFA and Saks, respectively, with an exclusive partnership. Saks Off 5th , originally a clearance store for Saks Fifth Avenue,

7134-428: Was designed by the architectural firm Parkinson and Parkinson , with interiors by Paul R. Williams . The store opened in 1938. The store was immediately successful upon opening and it would subsequently expand to almost 74,000 square feet (6,900 m) and employ 500 people. Williams created an interior reminiscent of his designs for luxurious private residences, with rooms lit by indirect lamps and footlights focused on

7221-587: Was exiting. In 1997 SFA moved its main Houston store from the Saks Pavilion to The Galleria and added a new location at Town & Country. In the Dallas Galleria , Saks moved within the mall to a larger location. In addition to the former Field's locations, SFA Austin opened in 1997 and Fort Worth in 2000. In Florida in the 1990s, 7 Saks Fifth Avenue stores opened, for a total of 11 stores by

7308-629: Was opened in the summer of 1975. Janss was running low on funds in 1977 and had entered into negotiations to sell the resort to the Walt Disney Company . While the negotiations were strung out by Disney, Earl Holding , a Utah businessman, learned of the situation through a small article in The Wall Street Journal and contacted Janss and arranged for a meeting. For about $ 12 million, Holding purchased Sun Valley through his company, Sinclair Oil , which operates

7395-538: Was redesigned in the late 1970s by Robert Trent Jones Jr. In 1977, the Warm Springs side boasted 100 acres (0.40 km ) of snowmaking up to an elevation of 8,200 feet (2,500 m), thought to be the highest anywhere at the time. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, snowmaking was significantly expanded on Bald Mountain. Three high-speed quad chairlifts were installed during the summer of 1988 (Christmas, Challenger, & Greyhawk). An impressive day lodge , constructed of logs, river rock, and glass, opened at

7482-497: Was the skiing stand-in for Henie . In February 1958, the cast of " I Love Lucy " filmed an episode of their follow-up series of hour-long specials, known in syndication as " The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour ", at Bald Mountain. In 1971, Apollo 15 astronaut and avid skier Jim Irwin , when stepping upon the surface of the Moon's Hadley–Apennine , exclaimed that it was like Sun Valley. Adam West who played Batman on television had

7569-620: Was used as a training site for many nations' alpine and Nordic ski teams. The alpine speed events for the Olympics were held at a sister resort, Snowbasin , outside of Ogden , Utah. Sun Valley is scheduled to host the U.S. Alpine Championships in 2016 and 2018, held after the World Cup season in March. It last hosted the event in 1951. Olympic medalists from Sun Valley include Gretchen Fraser, Christin Cooper , Picabo Street , snowboarder Kaitlyn Farrington , and disabled skier Muffy Davis,

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