There was a small park next to my parents’ house. There was a slope like this one down from pavement level to the grass. Just about that much, too. No good sledding in our area when that was “a hill.” You knew you’d grown when rolling down the slope was no longer fun, it was just a step or two down.
I still remember my first experience sledding, although it’s more than 60 years ago. Not actually a sled, but one of those large plastic disks. It was in Iowa, where we stayed for only about a year, and it can’t have been that hilly, but it was a lot of fun.
We then moved to Louisiana, where there was no snow worth mentioning. Then central Illinois, where there were no hills worth mentioning. Didn’t get a lot of sledding done as a kid.
I once lived in Benton, Arkansas, in a neighborhood built on a hill. We would go up to the top of the hill (3 houses up, back yard of the house there). We used a piece of panel, slick side down, sled down the hill, across the street, and into the bushes across from our house. Fun times! And it was our neighbor’s 16yr old daughter who got us into it! My brothers and I were younger.
When I was younger, probably around 10 yrs .old, we lived in a house that we had to go down a little hill to get to it from the road and our yard was strange, the top half of yard was about 3/4 way up hill and then bottom half was flat, so in the winter we would get an old piece of cardboard and we would “sled” down that little hill and then go back up and do it again until the cardboard got so wet that it was falling apart. Now that I am much much older I think of how that little hill looked that CB’s hill but we thought it was so big, but you know we had some of our best times sledding there in the winters that we lived in that house.
macky87 about 2 months ago
They need to find a rooftop. Then it’ll be REALLY exciting!
orinoco womble about 2 months ago
There was a small park next to my parents’ house. There was a slope like this one down from pavement level to the grass. Just about that much, too. No good sledding in our area when that was “a hill.” You knew you’d grown when rolling down the slope was no longer fun, it was just a step or two down.
iggyman about 2 months ago
Good Greif!
jessebob42 about 2 months ago
I remember this particular comic back in the day. The Midwest was very flat where I grew up.
allangary about 2 months ago
The first Sunday strip (from January 6, 1952) should appear in three days.
uniquename about 2 months ago
Is that one of those toddler slides?
Kaputnik about 2 months ago
I still remember my first experience sledding, although it’s more than 60 years ago. Not actually a sled, but one of those large plastic disks. It was in Iowa, where we stayed for only about a year, and it can’t have been that hilly, but it was a lot of fun.
We then moved to Louisiana, where there was no snow worth mentioning. Then central Illinois, where there were no hills worth mentioning. Didn’t get a lot of sledding done as a kid.
Otis Rufus Driftwood about 2 months ago
This was before Schulz started sending them out to hills.
Robert Miller Premium Member about 2 months ago
I once lived in Benton, Arkansas, in a neighborhood built on a hill. We would go up to the top of the hill (3 houses up, back yard of the house there). We used a piece of panel, slick side down, sled down the hill, across the street, and into the bushes across from our house. Fun times! And it was our neighbor’s 16yr old daughter who got us into it! My brothers and I were younger.
Sambora1 about 1 month ago
When I was younger, probably around 10 yrs .old, we lived in a house that we had to go down a little hill to get to it from the road and our yard was strange, the top half of yard was about 3/4 way up hill and then bottom half was flat, so in the winter we would get an old piece of cardboard and we would “sled” down that little hill and then go back up and do it again until the cardboard got so wet that it was falling apart. Now that I am much much older I think of how that little hill looked that CB’s hill but we thought it was so big, but you know we had some of our best times sledding there in the winters that we lived in that house.