School children on Christmas vacation benefited from the heavy snow to go sled riding.  One of the popular tracks was the Penn Street route, starting on upper Neville Street and extending to Main by way of Penn Street.  Long time resident Peck Blakely recalled another popular route for kids during the 1930s.  Beginning on top of Parkview, kids sled down the long hill to Mark and Banfield streets and on to Main Street.  There were few cars in those days and always enough kids to sound the alarm if automobiles or street cars approached.

• Steubenville Herald Star, “Follansbee – Kiddies Sled Riding” December 23, 1919, p. 5.
• Gerald “Peck” Blakely, Oral Interview, July 2009, Follansbee.
• Mill Towns Review, “Bobsledding is the Rage,” January 29, 1915, front page.