Click on images to enlarge.One loyal reader came through with some fantastic photos showing there are good times to be had for FREE right here in Salisbury. Fortunately for many of us older folks, we had more of these days than our kids will probably ever experience but isn't this just too cool!
When I was a kid we moved to Huntington Beach California for a few years. We had a swimming pool in the back yard and we'd get in the car and drive an hour or so away to Mt. Baldy. We'd go swimming in the morning and an hour later we were playing in the deep snow.
Where did you grow up? Do you have a special hill you went down when you were a kid? We had "Dead Man's Hill" in Emerson, New Jersey on a Golf Course.
Boy did this bring back memories. I grew up in Howard County. We had a hill right in the back of the house. My dad would run the tractor up and down it to pack it. He would also build a fire about half way down the hill so we could use the hill at night. How none of us ran through it I will never know. When we got cold we went into the basement and mom made us REAL hot chocolate and put our clothes in the dryer and we were back outside in an hour doing it all over again. Several neighbors also had hills each was a little different. The neighbor that owned the turf farm would supply us with the old innertubes for his hill and pull us back up the hill with the tractor. His father would let us use the pond to ice skate on. Lots of fun at different neighbors.
ReplyDeleteIn my younger days as a boy in Crisfield,Md. we used piles of oyster shells as hills. Hardhead
ReplyDeleteI grew up in w.va. and we used to go to Oglebay Park and sled ride down the hill at the golf course. You talk about a ride...OMG...it was a blast but the only bad part was the good half hour climb back up the hill to do it again. I actually have a pic of the hill but don't know how to post a pic on here.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid in the early 1960s, it was "Jail House Hill" behind the Caroline County Jail in Denton, MD. We would actually sled right onto the frozen Choptank River. How smart was that?? Usually, one of the "residents" would drop two quarters out of the window and ask us to get him a pack of Luckies. We could keep the change, two shiny dimes, a fortune to a kid in those days. The cigarette purchase is now illegal. I suppose the sledding is as well.
ReplyDeleteI remember Summer time sleding...lol
ReplyDeleteMy grandparents had a big hill behind their house and we would cut a big box up to make it flat, sit on it and use it to slide down over the dirt.