We have been going through a long string of winters here in central New Jersey without snow. As you can see by the graphic above, these kids are having a great time sledding over in the Parkside-Edgewood Avenue area during the Christmas season of 1933. One wonders how many of those sleds were brand new Christmas gifts received a day or so earlier on Christmas day. How I remember those great years when we took our sleds up Kuser's hill and "belly-flopped" down to the bottom of that long forgotten hill. I haven't seen a kid belly flop in years. Most kids today sit on a plastic sled and coast. They don't know what they're missing. Remember how us poor kids envied those kids whose moms and dads could afford a "Flexie?" What? You don't know what a "Flexie" is? Ask grand pop about the Cadillac of sleds!
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008
1933: REMEMBER WHEN IT SNOWED IN TRENTON?
We have been going through a long string of winters here in central New Jersey without snow. As you can see by the graphic above, these kids are having a great time sledding over in the Parkside-Edgewood Avenue area during the Christmas season of 1933. One wonders how many of those sleds were brand new Christmas gifts received a day or so earlier on Christmas day. How I remember those great years when we took our sleds up Kuser's hill and "belly-flopped" down to the bottom of that long forgotten hill. I haven't seen a kid belly flop in years. Most kids today sit on a plastic sled and coast. They don't know what they're missing. Remember how us poor kids envied those kids whose moms and dads could afford a "Flexie?" What? You don't know what a "Flexie" is? Ask grand pop about the Cadillac of sleds!
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