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Back when I grew up we played pond hockey, we used a round rink so while this picture reminds me of those days it also doesn't. This town is about 35 miles from my hometown.

http://www.bing.com/gallery/?FORM=MC10X ... PondHockey

I remember playing when the high for the day was -6 degrees! It didn't feel cold until you stopped playing.

Ed

reible wrote:Back when I grew up we played pond hockey, we used a round rink so while this picture reminds me of those days it also doesn't. This town is about 35 miles from my hometown.

http://www.bing.com/gallery/?FORM=MC10X ... PondHockey

I remember playing when the high for the day was -6 degrees! It didn't feel cold until you stopped playing.

Ed

You got it right Ed! I grew up in Bristol RI(the home of Nathanael Herrechoff, the greatest designer of Americas Cup racing boats ever). We would go out to Fesser (SP) pond and skate. We watched hockey all the time. The original 6. We got our first TV round 1955 or 56. It was a Christmas gift from my mothers parents. It was beautiful in a walnut solid cabinet.

We played street hockey. Our road was always plowed but never salted so the snow was about 6 inches thick. It usually melted enough for a nice ice layer to build up. We played hockey from the time we got out of school until the sun went down. Our biggest problem was wooden hockey sticks the blade would split. Learned to repair them using popcycle sticks and black tape

We also went to the Johnstown Jets hockey games. In those days you could catch the bus, ride to town, get into the game, get a hot dog and maybe a drink and get home for under a buck.
We had to sit in "peanut gallery" and I think tickets were $0.25 or $0.50. The peanut gallery was the curved quarter section at the end of the ring. Best thing was the players for Johnstown would enter and leave through the tunnel at that end. All the kids were there to cheer our heroes.