Vintage playground equipment - images

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NancyNGA

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Can you imagine these passing safety inspection today?

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And talk about monkey bars! :eek:mg1:

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We had one of these at our elementary school. You would have been mangled if you fell into the center of this thing.

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And wood plank seesaws. A recipe for splinters. Ask me how I know (no, don't).:eek:

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Wow. I remember the regular stuff at my elementary school. I loved the rings and monkey bars...and remember more than once landing on my back knocked out and seeing stars. It was an occupational hazard..lol
 
The lawyers would be all over these today.

Unfortunately.

Part of why so many kids today are out of shape.

I too took my share of falls from monkey bars, but none that looked like the pictured ones - they look like something that astronauts would use for training.
 
Thanks for the memories! Our playground had two slides, one about 8 feet high, the other at least doube that. Growing up, you just mastered safe use of the smaller first year, then maybe next year, the BIG one! Climbing up was likely the riskiest part. I don't recall ever seeing any kid hurt at the place, no falls. imp
 
Maybe this should be called a "scoot" instead of a slide? Note safety feature at top of larger slide.:)

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Pappy said:
Remember these vomit inducers? If you didn't get sick, you could learn to fly at no charge. The landing was a little rough.
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Pappy, ours was bent almost as much as this one, and high off the ground, too. Never could ride it.:sick:

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Still remember the day I got up enough courage to do a complete loop over on these (1st grade).:rolleyes: I was probably the last one in the class to learn. Such a sissy.:(

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Ahhhh, those metal slides that seared the flesh off the back of your legs in summer and the wooden swingset seats that were guaranteed to, at least once a year, knock out a tooth or ensure a trip to the emergency room for a combination of concussion, stitches and/or an extremely nasty hematoma.

Our elementary school playground had what we called "the maypole". As I can best describe it, it was a large metal ring about 10 feet across that was suspended from a pole by four chains on a swivel. Several children could hang onto it and start running around and then lift up their feet, thus spinning it. Unfortunately, the revolutions would become unbalanced and the ring would start crashing into the pole, with smashed fingers as the results. That didn't stop us from using it daily at recess. We weren't too smart.
 
I remember all of these. Almost got killed from a couple of them. I would rather remember slushy cold cokes in a glass bottle from a big red vending machine for a nickel than the old playground disasters. That's when gas was 2 and 3 cents a gallon. Movies were 25 cents. Those were the days.....
 
Like I've said before. Our backyard led out onto a huge construction site. That was where we played for several years. The oldest maybe ten, but little brothers and sisters would be forced on us and come some days. Really except for a scraped knee here or a bruised elbow there weren't any out of the ordinary injuries. There would always be daredevils especially bike riding...But I feel many kids can be logical to a degree with safety. If you throw a rock at somebody you're going to be grounded. If you fall off that dirt mound it's going to hurt so step carefully. If your little sister is with you, keep her away from the rebar that's sticking up. We got filthy in the mud but nobody really got hurt. Maybe we were just lucky.
 

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