Not sleighs, but when you are 10 years old and it snows, you don't take time to analyze the linguistics. You just grab your boots and go.

 

Fair enough.

We would go sled riding down the alley between Ofallan ave and Thorton street growing up, fun times.

We would go sled riding down the alley between Ofallan ave and Thorton street growing up, fun times.

 

My dad talks about going straight down O'Fallon when he was a kid. Apparently one of his friends took a tail-pipe to the forehead. That still makes me cringe to think about.

 

My grandpa on my mom's side said his crowd would actually sled ride down Old Montague in Devou Park (in the days before it was called Devou Park). Right at a half mile of curvy one-lane road, and about 275' of elevation change from the top, near the Behringer-Crawford Museum and the Children's Home down to Sleepy Hollow Road at the bottom.