Hugha
3 posts
Jan 13, 2011
6:56 PM
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What was the golf course with "Suicide Hill"?
As a kid my dad would let us sled down the opposite side and then he would drag us back up.
on the Suicide Hill part, they put logs at the bottom to discourage sledders one year. That did not stop sledders!
Any other good sledding spots around Dayton?
I live in Austin now. Several years ago my son saw a photo with white stuff on the ground and he wondered what that was!
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BB64
11 posts
Jan 14, 2011
7:28 AM
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We use to sled down suicide on the sign that said "NO SLEDDING"
After the first couple times they drove the sign posts way down into the ground.
Not to be detered, We'd get a bumper jack from the trunk of the car pull it back up and sledding we'd go.
Last Edited by on Jan 14, 2011 7:30 AM
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Bigmo
47 posts
Jan 14, 2011
1:59 PM
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One year in the 70s Suicide Hill was covered in a thick layer of pure ice over a layer of snow after a bout of freezing rain. Sleds were doomed and completely uncontrollable. I and others took to standing up at the top of hill and sliding down standing up on just our boots. It was freaky because your body would naturally turn as you went down and you'd wind up facing backwards for half the slide.
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Lylen
4 posts
Jan 20, 2011
2:14 PM
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In the mid 60s when what is now the Sugarcreek Reserve was still cow pasture, there were fantastic hills for sledding. Of course it was wooded even then so there were occasional accidents including a broken leg. I have a small scar on my forehead from a sledding accident on one of those hills. It was great fun and kids came from all over to go sledding.
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fairmontchick
14 posts
Jan 21, 2011
7:41 AM
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I just looked at this post and saw "Suicide Hill" and remembered some fun times. Number 1, who lets their kids go down a hill named "Suicide Hill"? But my dad used to take us. I do remember sledding into those logs one year. And I have the scar to prove it. But you are right, it didn't stop us.
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NRA_Life_Member
14 posts
Jul 07, 2013
12:12 AM
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Once we went to Englewood Dam with large inner tubes. Get in the tube, have a buddy give you a nudge and you were gone. When you hit one of the "steps", you would be launched 15-20 feet in the air, get your breath knocked out of you and land in a heap as you watch your inner tube haul a$$ towards the river below. There were many injuries but we could say we did it.
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tlturbo
529 posts
Jul 07, 2013
5:51 AM
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That was Hills and Dales Park just down the way from Frankensteins castle. It was part of their golf course.
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luv my dayton
306 posts
Jul 07, 2013
9:46 AM
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Several stories come to mind of our sledding escapades. My sister and our boyfriends wanted to go sledding but had no sled. Went to cousins house who lived near the park.It was right after Christmas and her son had gotton a new sled. We went off to sled and started at the top of a hill and first trip down I thought I saw sparks. Second trip down definitely saw sparks, third trip down the sled shattered in many pieces which a sled will do when traveling over snow covered steps! Took it back totally busted up and never even offered to replace it. Guess thats why we became distant relatives. Years later and I still feel guilty for that one. Another time we took a tobaoggan which held about 5 people. We started at top of suicide hill which was full of trees and shoved off. Can't believe how fast we were going with all the weight and having to make it through the tree line. Needless to say we scared the daylights out of ourselves and never made the second attempt. Do remember many people were injured there and with all the traffic parked on the roadway the rescue vehicles had a terrible time getting to the injured.
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blue J
97 posts
Jul 10, 2013
3:41 AM
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I remember when my mother and stepfather first moved into our house on Patterson Blvd.; it was shortly before they got married...anyway, it was 1982, and I was nine years old. I had always heard about Suicide Hill, but it wasn't until we lived over there that I got to go sledding on it. I was never much of a daredevil, either, so it was intimidating, being just a little sprite like I was. It was fun, though.
They still have that house over there, too, on the uphill slope just south of Stockton Avenue.
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jack1971
19 posts
Jul 10, 2013
11:14 AM
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I remember the place called suicide hill, but have no recollection of where it was located. Anyone?
Jack
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JJCofMAINE
22 posts
Jul 10, 2013
11:55 AM
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I grew up in Kettering, just off of Far Hills Ave., easily within walking/biking distance to Suicide Hill. I did the trip down that slope several times as a teeager.
Not too many years later, I joined the Kettering Volunteer Fire Dept., and responded to several rescue calls to that same hill. I had an entirely diffferent outlook of Suicide Hill after the first of those emergency runs.
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blue J
99 posts
Jul 11, 2013
10:51 AM
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jack1971- It is along the backside of Community Golf Course, and Suicide Hill itself faces Patterson Blvd. in Hills and Dales Park (as tlturbo correctly stated above). I lived just north of there, on the downhill stretch of Patterson that is just past the John Henry Patterson monument.
I also have many fond memories of riding my bike through Hills and Dales Park and all through the west side of Oakwood, all those hills around there, when I was between about 11 and 14 years old.
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jack1971
20 posts
Jul 11, 2013
2:04 PM
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blue J, thanks. I never was much into sledding and stuff. Making snow forts and snow men around the house was about as deep as I got into the snow thing! Especially didn't like it when I started driving!!
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