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- Glen Ogle: 1952. I was a sophomore, and I brought this proposal up
to run this winter sports area. My dad gave an old Model A car where we rigged up a pulley assembly on the rear wheel, and that was our ski pull. By the third year, we were getting a lot of evening bookings and the crowds were big on the weekends. We'd be full. It worked all night sometimes, getting that flue to ice.
We'd have to come down and drag garden hose all the way to the top of the toboggan chute. That wooden chute that had about 2-foot sides on it, they were a little bit tapered. But you had to really be tucked in when you started down it, 'cause going 60 miles an hour, if your pants leg touched the side of that chute, you had a hole burned in 'em. In those days, you came home with your clothes all burned up, your parents would usually give you a pretty good lecture.

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