We had a great hill across the street from my house, at a girls' private school. The only downside was the fenced in tennis courts at the bottom of the hill. Half the fun was figuring out ways to not get too beat up by that fence. Great fun!
We had a great hill across the street from my house, at a girls’ private school. The only downside was the fenced in tennis courts at the bottom of the hill. Half the fun was figuring out ways to not get too beat up by that fence. Great fun!
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My elementry school two blocks from my house had added a new wing for a large auditoreum. It was about 40 feet above the two lane street in front of the school, with many steps and a down-sloping wide sidewalk toward that street.
We kids took advantage of every ice/snow event and that was our hill. We didn’t have sleds, as such events in Dallas TX were rare. ....We used large pieces of heavy cardboard or metal sides from old refrigerators. ....From the porch of the building we could watch for cars and then take off down the steep steps and cement walkway. We’d hit the small dip on the near side of the road and fly across the road to slam into a chainedlink fence along the backyard of the house across the road.
Yeah, that was in the 1940-50 era, when kids were allowed and even encouraged to do things that today’s wimpy parents and kids would never consider doing. The country is doomed.
We had such a great sledding hill, I got killed every year when I was a kid