More trivia: origin of the wheel group
Brad Knowles
brad.knowles at skynet.be
Sun Dec 21 23:06:20 PST 2003
At 7:45 PM -0500 2003/12/21, Bill Moran wrote:
> Interesting. I can't remember ever hearing the term "Big wheel" before.
> Perhaps it's some local slang that is seldom used in western Pennsylvania?
From childhood -- a low-to-the-ground plastic tricycle-like contraption.
Thirty some-odd years sounds like about the right timeframe....
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