Our grandparents playground:

[Pappy]

How they rolled back then:

 

[PopsnTuff]

Wow those ladders are high!....and everything made of steel, no plastics back then.

 

[Kadee]

Yep we had old adventure play grounds like that in the parks where I lived .....if we skinned our knee from a fall , we ran and got a band aid ..we didn’t go running to the nearest Solicitors office

 

[Aunt Bea]

I remember getting whacked with these old wood and steel swings or dropped from these old teeter-totters.

I'm not sure which generation is better off but I have no complaints.

 

[Kadee]

This structure is in Adelaide in a suburb called West Beach in sure you’d know that area @Pinky

 

[Aunt Marg]

Yep we had old adventure play grounds like that in the parks where I lived .....if we skinned our knee from a fall , we ran and got a band aid ..we didn’t go running to the nearest Solicitors office

If at all.

Kids (back in the day) took a lickin' and kept on tickin'.

Not much got in the way of playtime.

 

[Pinky]

This structure is in Adelaide in a suburb called West Beach in sure you’d know that area @Pinky
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When was it built? Looks like fun!

 

[Aunt Marg]

When was it built? Looks like fun!

Does it ever!

I see the participants are wearing harnesses.

 

[Kadee]

Looks like it was built in 2015
https://www.weekendnotes.com/mega-aerial-adventure-park/103115/
Do you remember Marine World at west beach @Pinky it’s built where that used to be near the caravan park

 

[Pinky]

Looks like it was built in 2015
https://www.weekendnotes.com/mega-aerial-adventure-park/103115/
Do you remember Marine World at west beach @Pinky it’s built where that used to be near the caravan park

Yes, I remember the area well.

 

[jujube]

I remember those metal slides that were guaranteed in the summer to cook the meat off the back of your legs on the way down.

 

[Butterfly]

Yep we had old adventure play grounds like that in the parks where I lived .....if we skinned our knee from a fall , we ran and got a band aid ..we didn’t go running to the nearest Solicitors office

Yup. If I fell off the swings or the climbing gym or whatever, my folks' response was "if you are going to take stupid chances you are going to get hurt; you need to learn to be more careful" rather than looking for someone or something else to blame.

 

[jerry old]

See the kid falling in the background of OP's picture. If so-'He's gonn'a bust his head
wide open.'
Harness are mentioned, don't see any in OP's picture?

 

[911]

I climbed a 40 foot rock wall last winter during a Cadet training class. One “youngun” challenged me to do it. I love a challenge, but didn’t know if I would make it or not. When I got to the top, I jumped into the net, which was more worrisome to me, but I really liked it.

 

[squatting dog]

See the kid falling in the background of OP's picture. If so-'He's gonn'a bust his head
wide open.'
Harness are mentioned, don't see any in OP's picture?

If you're talking about the one at about 9 o'clock on the left, he's in a swing and trying to go as high as possible.

 

[squatting dog]

And then, there were these shin busters.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

As jujube said, those shiny, metal slides, sitting in the hot sun, baked us kids, but nobody seemed to care.
I'm not sure why, but back when we were kids, there wasn't the notion that we were such fragile creatures. You were kind of expected to come home with bumps and bruises. Back then, people didn't have this overly protective bent toward kids.