Betcha didn't know some of us 'member when Sonja Henie from Norway became the first famous woman ice skater...won Gold Medals in '28,'32 and '36...'course we only saw the last one...kinda...
Okay, already..hafta admit we couldn't actually *watch* her on our console radios...but there were Fox Movietone Films when we were older at our matinee theaters!!
Reminds me of the time in Fairbanks in Eielson AF Base Housing when I instigated creating our very own ice rink behind our eightplex..the whole length of it.
We checked out skates from Special Services - children skated in the afternoon, but from 7 p.m. on, it was **Adults Only,** - so we wouldn't get run over..:))
Turned on all the back porch lights - had vats of hot chocolate for *refeuling missions* - and I did a good imitation of..of..a female Dumbo??!!
LOL
It soon became too cold at -30 to use it, so I rounded up everyone on our court to convoy out to the Base Ski Slope with all our sleds, to play on the Bunny Course.
[again had vats of hot chocolate and roasted hot dogs and marshmallows]
Of course boys will be boys, and Mommo here nearly had a heart attack when she saw the men watching two figures sledding down the VERY steep main ski run - those 2 figures were MY TWO SONS, ages 10 and 11, getting up to 70 mph before they glided to a stop at the bottom!
Buncha angels were in charge, though, for No Bones Were Broken..:))
It was my Most Favoritest Olympic Event...