Pond Hockey, Winter 1950s

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Pond Hockey, Winter 1950s — Archive & Atlas

Unattributed 1950–1959

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A man works a puck across a frozen pond with a hockey stick, moving fast enough to blur at the edges — which in the 1950s was the normal way to play hockey if you didn't live somewhere with an arena. The pond was the rink, the neighborhood was the league, and the season lasted exactly as long as the cold held. He's dressed for winter work rather than sport: jeans, a dark jacket, a white cap — the same clothes he'd wear to shovel the walk — because dedicated athletic gear for a frozen pond on a Tuesday afternoon had not yet been invented as a concept. Someone stopped to take the picture, which means the game was already important enough to document, which is the earliest sign that recreational hockey was becoming something more than a way to get through February.

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