Description: Toboggan slide first Ice Palace; note men standing at top of toboggan slide. The Toboggan slide was affixed to the Ice Palace's exterior. The entire structure was built on the town's plaza enabling long-skirted ladies of the 1890s to easily walk to the skating rink from hotels or the excursion Pullman railroad train cars. See also From the Desk of Truckee's C.F. McGlashan, p. 193.