The terrifying playgrounds of the past

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Anonymous wrote:You all are the same people who can not believe some mom would put her kid on their lap to go down the slide. "Don't you know how dangerous that is?!" You'd screech through your keyboard.

The screechers are right. I work in an emergency room and I see a lot of little children with broken ankles because the child put their foot on the wall of the slide as they were going down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You all are the same people who can not believe some mom would put her kid on their lap to go down the slide. "Don't you know how dangerous that is?!" You'd screech through your keyboard.

lol wut?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As usual, only the ones who survived are posting.

Same for seatbelts, and running around all day without supervision, and biking everywhere without a helmet.

You ALL survived without trauma, since you are here and posting about it.

The dead children can't post.

Probably Republicans. If it didn't happen to them, it isn't real.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As usual, only the ones who survived are posting.

Same for seatbelts, and running around all day without supervision, and biking everywhere without a helmet.

You ALL survived without trauma, since you are here and posting about it.

The dead children can't post.

Hey guys, it's Eddie Kasbrak's mom from It! Have fun crippling your children in other ways.

[Anonymous]

I busted my chin twice on these metal playgrounds. I don't understand the nostalgia for it. Modern playgrounds seem just as fun and there are fewer stitches with plastic structures.

[Anonymous]

Well, this happened.

[Anonymous]

My elementary school on LI in the 1970s had a wonderful playground, it was made of wood and it was multi level with tire swings, cargo nets, chain bridges, climbing ropes. It had sand instead of mulch.
It was such a fabulous place and it was cut down at some point in the 1980s.

[Anonymous]

There used to be a long slide at Horace Mann that ran down a huge slope. My kids loved it. They just took it out a few years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My elementary school on LI in the 1970s had a wonderful playground, it was made of wood and it was multi level with tire swings, cargo nets, chain bridges, climbing ropes. It had sand instead of mulch.
It was such a fabulous place and it was cut down at some point in the 1980s.

There were several like this around here too. We used to frequent the one at Rolling Valley Elementary in Springfield. I recently discovered that there is one left around here. Fantasy Playground in Woodbridge: http://themeanestmomma.com/play-space-review/fantasy-playground-woodbridge-va/. It's a hike, but I took my kids there last spring and it was great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My elementary school on LI in the 1970s had a wonderful playground, it was made of wood and it was multi level with tire swings, cargo nets, chain bridges, climbing ropes. It had sand instead of mulch.
It was such a fabulous place and it was cut down at some point in the 1980s.

I had a fabulous playground like that near me too. The wood reeked of creosote, though. Which actually is kind of terrifying.

[Anonymous]

My kid loves the brutalist playgrounds at Lake Anne Plaza in Reston.

Lots of skin on that pyramid.

http://dismagazine.com/disillusioned/76257/a-brutalist-wonderland-in-the-south-chris-kasper/

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Does anyone who grew up in the area remember where there was a huge wooded playground with several reaallly long tube slides (like down the hillside). I am fairly sure it was in a Montgomery County park. My first guess was Wheaton Regional Park, which was apparently all redone in recent years. It does have some long slides now, but looks totally different than whatever I am remembering. I can't find any older photos of it pre-renovation. My other guess is Cabin John, but I can't find old photos of that either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I always got stuck at the top.

Ha I just took my son to a playground in Boulder that had that exact structure. He LOVED it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I always got stuck at the top.

Ah I remember begging my mom to let me climb up the rocket ship slide and when she finally let me, (I was 4) I decided that I was NOT going to slide down as it was much too high. I also was NOT climbing back down the ladder. I just sat at the top screaming until she climbed up herself and brought me back down.