Today in stores across the country, Paricon markets plastic, foam and inflatable products bearing Flexible Flyer’s famous Eagle logo. And yes, they still sell wooden sleds with red steel rails ...

The Flexible Flyer is your model that's ready for a Ralph ... and comes in eight fun colors. Foam sleds are super-popular because you get major sturdiness with minimal weight.

a foam pad to help absorb shocks from bumpy terrain, and a hand strap for towing it to the top of the hill. The sled is available in fire engine red and bright blue. Flexible Flyer has been in ...

A Flexible Flyer sled from 1936 from the permanent collection of The Childrens Museum of Indianapolis. In the late 19th century Samuel Leeds Allen took the age-old concept of the sled and improved ...

Sam Allen, of Edgewater Park, shows off his sledding style on a Flexible Flyer, the sled invented by his great-grandfather Samuel Leeds Allen. Advertised as the "Sled That Steers," the Flexible ...

But none proved to be as iconic as his patent for the first steerable sled, which he called the Flexible Flyer. “The flexibility is really the meat and potatoes of it,” said Samuel Leeds Allen ...

For the first half of the 20th century, sleds were largely limited to the classic Flexible Flyer—first sold in the 1880s and hugely popular by the 1910s—and to wooden toboggans. By the middle ...

They are world-famous Flexible Flyer sleds and they are on display at the "Flexible Flyer Sled Museum." The inventor of these sleds was a Moorestown man Samuel Leeds Allen, then a farm and garden ...

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 ...

There is an irony in that, because Paricon traces its roots to Paris Sleds, which for decades competed against the Flexible Flyer steel-runner sled with its made-in-Maine “Speedaway.’’ ...