Photographs of the opening of Trattoria di Umberto with Umberto Menghi and groups of people eating and making toasts.

File Caption:
"OPENING OF TRATORIA [sic]"

Photographs of restaurants, events, Tapley's Neighbourhood Pub anniversary in the year of 1981/1982, Trattoria di Umberto's grand opening of the restaurant, the Cheakamus Challenge mountain bike race, people dining at the Black Forest Restaurant, professional drivers with Porsche cars, tennis and sunbathing at Whistler Resort and Club, helicopters installing chairlifts, Whistler Mountain, group portraits, construction and early development of Whistler Village, skiing on Whistler Mountain and Blackcomb Mountain, camping near a lake, and the grand opening of Blackcomb Mountain.

Photographs from the opening of Trattoria di Umberto that include views of a group of people eating in a dining room, a hot air balloon with a sign "Umberto's Restaurant" on it, and a group portrait of chefs surrounding a roast pig.

Various group photographs of people in relation to Blackcomb Mountain, including a group of people in front of Rendezvous Lodge. Also includes photographs of a large group of people at an event gathered around tables with food.

Note: contact sheet corresponds with some of the negatives in this file. The contact sheet also corresponds to the files GRI_01_45_015 and GRI_01_45_017.

Photographs of people (possibly identified as 'Toby and Suzy') dining in the Highland Lodge (now Rimrock Cafe), and the food being served with a fireplace in the background.

Caption on file:
"HIGHLAND LODGE"

Photographs of people skiing and snowboarding on Blackcomb Mountain and Whistler Mountain, aerial and panoramic shots of Whistler Valley, alpenglow over the mountains, Rainbow Park, Whistler Village, ski in and ski out condominiums, hiking, group portraits of Mountain Hosts and Ski Patrol, gondolas, chairlifts, T-bars, freestyle skiing and snowboarding, restaurants and hotels, cabins, Slush Cup, Peak to Valley Race, Molson World Cup Downhill, ski racing, Black Tusk, Fissile Peak, heli-skiing, Franz Wilhelmsen and Bob Ainsworth on Whistler Mountain, Roundhouse Lodge, Tremor Glacier on Tremor Mountain, the Saudan Couloir Ski Race Extreme, picnics, Pemberton Icecap, Ipsoot Mountain, Burnt Stew Basin, telemark skiing, people carrying surfboards on a beach, running, Snowboard Cross, apres ski, moguls, mountaineering, Wedge Mountain, 7th Heaven, River of Golden Dreams, portraits of John "Rabbit" Hare and Greg Griffith with his photography equipment, Joffre Lakes, Elfin Lakes, Beaver Pond, Cheakamus Lake, Pemberton, Phalanx Mountain, Creekside, Inawashiro Ski Resort in Japan, sumo wrestling, avalanches, Rendezvous Lodge, Wedgemount Lake, Lost Lake, Alta Lake, Green Lake, Squamish, Nicklaus North Golf Course, Mt Weart, Rimrock Cafe, Longhorn Saloon & Grill, Anasazi Restaurant, Highway 99, Tantalus Range, windsurfing on Howe Sound, rafting, fireworks, mountain biking, Singing Pass and Musical Bumps Trail, and the Metzler family cross-country skiing.

Photographs of Umberto Menghi standing in front of a table of food inside a restaurant [possibly the opening of one of his restaurants], a kayaker in a river, mountain views over a lake, mountain views in the Whistler Valley with hydro lines and a golf course below, Blackcomb Lodge and a Whistler Village sign as seen from Village Gate Boulevard with Blackcomb Mountain in the background, early Whistler Village under construction, Myrtle Philip Elementary School in winter, Roundhouse Lodge area with crowds of skiers, a helicopter clearing out trees and helping install chairlift towers, and the exterior of a squatters cabin.

Photographs of an event held at the Delta Mountain Inn/Hilton Whistler Resort with people gathered around tables of food and sitting eating under umbrellas.

Photographs of the construction of Whistler Village (Rainbow Building, Hearthstone Lodge, Blackcomb Lodge, Executive Inn & Suites, Clocktower Building, Crystal Lodge, and the Delta Mountain Inn), various barbecues with views of people gathered around tables full of food (buffet style), a view of the interior of L'Apres restaurant with a table full of people and view of the mountains through the window, people gathered eating lunch on Whistler Mountain at a picnic table, as well as at Roundhouse Lodge, a couple pulling a child along in a toboggan in Whistler Village, a crowd of people enjoying apres ski, someone who is injured on the ski hill being rescued by the Ski Patrol with a sled, a photo of a 'staff only' sign on a door, and a landscape view of Roundhouse Lodge with a crowd of people around it.

Photographs of an indoor scene of a man [Pascal Tiphine?] standing in front of a table full of food and wine at [Le Gros?].