I remember getting snow in Santa Monica in the 40’s. Dad bought a sled - one day of use.
I was a transplanted Easterner who lived in Orange County in the 1980s.
One day the boss sent me to a meeting way up in Victorville—it never even occurred to me there would be snow up there and I needed a top coat—that was a hilarious surprise.
I lived in Va for a year. Headlines....7 sleds sold at the local hardware store.
Snowed at UCLA in he late forties and pops Lurking was there.
A Target in deep SW Florida had two large bins of plastic snowball makers right as you came in the store before Christmas. Needless to say there wasn’t a run on them.