CowTown by Charlie Podrebarac for January 15, 2024

Charlie, you ran this panel last year, but that’s okay!!! One of your best!!

Westcott Reservoir was the place to go in Syracuse. Looking down from the top of the hill you saw West Genesse Street with all its traffic. No way could you reach it because of a gully at the bottom of the hill but it sure was intimidating.

The 70’s did rock!

Sledding was great on the property on the NW corner of State Line and 50 Hiway in the early ’50’s.

Back in the late 50’s and early 60’s we used to drag our sleds about 1.7 miles to Hoyt park in Saginaw, MI. Back then they flooded the basin and iced the sides of the hill. With a sled ramp and a toboggan ramp you would end up shooting almost all the way across the basin. Sadly the lawyers ruined it and they took down the ramps and stopped icing the hills. That and globalization and NAFTA totally destroyed the city. 2 steel foundries and almost all the auto plants closed up. Only poor people live in Saginaw today.

Charlie…is that you in the background sailing thru the air??…Lol!!

In Princeton, MO, only the bravest sledded down Axtell hill.

Nowadays, all you got is a slipped disk.