[Willie Green]

Cinders were also a popular material to use for the track that surrounded HS football fields.
Of course, there were so many cinders around the 'Burgh, you also found em on all the ballfields too, football... baseball...
I still have cinders embedded in a scar on my right knee from a bad scrape I suffered 45 years ago when I was 13. I guess I didn't clean it up good enough before I painted it with mercurochrome and slapped a bandaid on it.

[3catsanadog]

OMG - I grew up in Pittsburgh and remember the cinder they used for traction when it snowed! And I remember my mum using mercurochrome for every boo-boo I got! It’s a ‘Burgh thang.