The Observation Deck

Park at the main building, or if you're lucky, a little bit further down there are a couple of spaces at the smaller clubhouse that's just a couple hundred yards from the hill.

Here's a Google Maps view

Jim you made me get all nostalgic, I realize now I MUST RIDE SHARKEYS AGAIN. Can we get some "I survived Sharkeys hill" tee shirts made up?

With snow on the ground, and Chrstmas around the corner, and Glen Palmer at Lakewood Hardware
evoking the name "Sharkey's Hill" it is time to bring this thread back to the top.

We have also placed the story on the front of the Website, from Volume 2, Issue 1,
"You Really Should Have Been Here Yesterday" which is a title that pays homage to Bruce Brown's
movie, "The Endless Summer" a movie about searching the world for the perfect wave.

http://lakewoodobserver.com/read/2012/12/21/you-really-should-have-been-here-yesterday-sharkeys-hill


Sharkey's Hill as it looks today.


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LOVE this story!!!!!! Legendary!!!

Reminds me of winter escapades on the huge hill behind Dewey Elementary School growing up back in Massachusetts. We never used sleds on that hill. Rather ... all the neighborhood kids would hope and pray that someone's parents would get a get new refrigerator or stove (or similar HUGE appliance) and save the cardboard box it was shipped/delivered in so that when the first snow flew, we would break down the box so that the resulting configuration was the top or bottom section of the box with four "flaps" (the four side walls). We'd pile 6 or 8 or a dozen kids on that cardboard death vehicle and barrel down the hill ... ejecting the weakest of batch on the trip!

Kids!!!!

Edgewater is still my favorite. Nothing beats the location, the view, the action. (Well, I just talked to some brave souls who seem to have checked out Sharkey's Hill--- courtesy of this thread-- and maybe the action can be beaten but I'm talking about somewhere to take your kids without taking your life or theirs in your hands, much.)

We looked at the weather -- 47 degrees tomorrow! 59 on Tuesday! and decided we'd better get outside. Right now the lake appears to be frozen solid. We should know, we landed right on it. There is a great jump at the bottom of the hill, after you hit the completely iced over path. The only problem was that the hill was getting ragged, and the sand was starting to show through on the beach. The cold is supposed to come back-- so if you haven't checked it out, it's at the end of Edgewater Rd, right off the freeway, you can't miss it.







Betsy Voinovich