Complex sentence: Vail quickly grew to become a popular ski resort, a village formed at the base, near the gondola, which was taken down in the 1970s and replaced with a Lift Engineering double chairlift.
Split into simpler sentences: Vail quickly grew to become a popular ski resort. A village formed at the base near the gondola, which was taken down in the 1970s and replaced with a Lift Engineering double chairlift.