A Flexible Flyer sled from 1936 within the permanent collection of The Childrens Museum of Indianapolis.jpg A Flexible Flyer sled from 1936 within the permanent collection of The Childrens Museum of ...

MOORESTOWN – The sleds seem to have a personality of their own. One, the Model No. 6, stands 8 1 / 2 feet tall; one has a Mickey Mouse design; there's a Fire Fly Model No. 10a, built from 1890 to 1900 ...

With a fresh blanket of snow about to cover much of the state, it’s time recognize one of the greatest inventions in New Jersey: the steerable sled. In the 1889, Samuel Leeds Allen lived in ...

If it snows in your hometown and you’re over the age of 35 or so, chances are the name Flexible Flyer takes you on a fast, fun trip down a snowy memory lane. The legendary sled went downhill – in the ...

Is there anything more Americana, more Christmas, than the Flexible Flyer? Invented in 1889 by Samuel Leeds Allen, whose Philadelphia-based company was best known for farm equipment, the steerable ...

You see, what I really wanted was a Flexible Flyer, but wanting and getting were two very different things. I wish someone could explain to me why it is that the things I want most seem to cost the ...

The Flexible Flyer sled, famously part of the classic film "A Christmas Story," was first manufactured by Pennsylvania Quakers in the late 1800s. The inventor, Samuel Leeds Allen, a farm implement ...

Hank Morton’s great-grandparents, Henry and Lucinda Morton, started making sleds by hand in their Oxford Hills home in 1861 — gorgeous rides with gracefully curved wooden runners, their decks ...

A massive four-alarm fire burned out of control at the former headquarters of the S.L. Allen & Co. in the Kensington section of Philadelphia Monday night. Flames could be seen shooting from the top ...