Time Machine: 100 years ago, Colorado unveils green and white license plate design

Time Machine: 100 years ago, Colorado unveils green and white license plate design

50 years ago Jan. 2, 1976 President Gerald R. Ford presented replicas of skis owned by Teddy Roosevelt to the Colorado Ski Museum in Vail, the Vail Trail reported. The event was “celebrating TR’s newly recognized prominence as the nation’s first skiing president,” the Trail reported. “Roosevelt bought his nine-foot skis in the 1880s for use during his winter hiking and hunting trips in the Dakotas.” Roosevelt’s skiing activities had been recentl…