Bobsled

A red wooden bobsled was one of the many vehicles used by children and adults in Mount Airy to ride down a snow-covered Main Street. The ride began at Pine Grove Chapel and ran down South Main Street to Hood Street and beyond. A really good ride carried riders over the B&O Railroad tracks, past the Mount Airy Milling Company and the train station, and onto Prospect Road. When the ride was over, riders hoped to find a car headed back up the hill and ask the driver to pull them back to Pine Grove Chapel. In the 1940s, people also remembered sliding down the hill on their own sleds, starting at the top of the hill, crossing the tracks, turning on Prospect Road to the bottom, and trying to get a car to pull them back up because walking back was no fun. With many great hills to sled on and not many cars to deal with, all the kids in town would be out and it was great fun.

Mount Airy, Maryland · United States