Word: slided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foot ice slide at Holyoke Center was the focus of local shoppers' attention last Saturday at Winterfest '86, a weekend festival that brought hundreds of people to Harvard Square...
...Saturday was a wonderful day," said Sally. Alcorn, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association, sponsors of Winterfest '86. "Almost 1000 people of all ages enjoyed sliding down the massive slide...
...very obvious hazard," said Sally Alcorn, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association, a sponsor of the Winterfest. Alcorn said that a sharp curve in the slide's track collapsed yesterday morning, leaving a slide which "would have sent riders flying into Au Bon Pain [the adjacent bakery]," had officials not decided to destroy the structure...
Twenty-four-hour security from the Cambridge Police Department and a private agency hired by the business association prevented would-be riders from using the slide until a team of 25 Cambridge schoolchildren could chisel and hammer the structure apart...
Local youngsters still flocked to the site Sunday, expecting the slide to be operational. While most expressed disappointment at the melting pile of ice, four-year-old Jonathon Sears took a more philosophical approach...