1878: A Toboggan Slide at Drexel Boulevard and Forty-fourth Street

A Toboggan Slide at Drexel Boulevard and Forty-fourth Street

A toboggan slide at Drexel Boulevard and Forty-fourth Street, reviving pleasant memories of a long gone day when tobogganing was great fun and the danger of accidents was hardly considered. The warming house and the skating-pond at the right could only have added to the pleasure.

Courtesy of “Chicago and Its Makers” (Chicago: Felix Mendelsohn, 1929).

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