Actual school playground, 1900-something

[Darren Dirt]

https://twitter.com/Super70sSports/status/881652846470594560




For those skeptical that this is real (aka who forget how the 1980s weren't that different, really)...
http://dallaslibrary2.org/dallashistory/photogallery/images/parks/pa87-1-19-59-210-10.jpg via http://www.snopes.com/scary-playground/


BTW, "something" is actually "00" -- https://dallaslibrary2.org/dallashistory/photogallery/parks.php

[Mr. Analog]

I wonder if there are any old yearbook photos of the playground at Madonna it was super dangerous before they put in a proper one. We had at least one kid split their head open on the swings and one jungle gym (which was made entirely out of tyres and steel chains) erupted into flame one hot day

In winter we had a really steep hill and a metal slide that we'd slick up with ice until you could slide down it at near lightspeed

A lot of injuries sustained collectively lol

[Darren Dirt]

Elementary school was my first of my two concussions, and it wasn't even at a playground, I had climbed the uprights in the field and when I was climbing down I slipped. Don't remember falling or hitting, just later "tasting yellow". Still to this day can remember how that tasted -- and sounded. Yes I had a trifecta of senses linked to "yellow" for a few minutes (or more, with a concussion time is effed up!)

Playground had lots of poles to slide down (and to climb up!) and the usual swings etc. but always only hard sand at the bottom, with plenty of kids pushing as you climbed ladders and chain nets and whatever -- and yet nobody ever was at major risk of injury, at least not at the hands of the other kids. We learned to "share" the fun.

[Darren Dirt]

For those skeptical that this is real...

Also real: BOTH of these things...


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...which one will you click first?

[Mr. Analog]

*not sure how either relates to playgrounds*

[Darren Dirt]

All 3 seem to be un-real at first glance...

Also, we need to balance out the keywords from which strangers find the RW forum amirite

[Lazybones]

Not as impressive in height, probably half as high was our metal monkey-bars that annually had a tongue stuck to them.

And we also had a structure made out of old tracker tires and metal bars to climb on.. Metal slides as well.


I think the most interesting / risky thing on the playground was that the about 4-6 foot wide drainage channel around the edge and the swamp.. It would often have a lot of water in it and when it froze over and was still thin, someone ALWAYS broke through and got soaked up to their waist.

[Mr. Analog]

I think the most interesting / risky thing on the playground was that the about 4-6 foot wide drainage channel around the edge and the swamp.. It would often have a lot of water in it and when it froze over and was still thin, someone ALWAYS broke through and got soaked up to their waist.

Dude we had that at my preschool / elementary (St. Mark Catholic Elementary School in Burlington) it backed onto a park (Duncaster Park) and had the same kind of ditch just over a hill that was not line of sight with the school (at least in those days) We used to jump over it for fun. The parking lot also had a slope next to it which became a toboggan hill one year and of course kids slid into cars (the hill and the side entrance is gone now according to Google Street View)

How did we not die?

[Darren Dirt]

Oh yeah the monster truck tires!

One school had a decent tire park with maybe 10 of them in single file each standing vertical, of course us kids would jump across the gap between each and I remember missing and sliding down and skinning my knees. But you felt mighty when you made it across!


Until some idiot teenagers set fire to a tire one year. Soon after the tires were gone. Idiots.

[Tom]

All 3 seem to be un-real at first glance...

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[Mr. Analog]

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[Darren Dirt]

MY GOD what monster have I let loose here...

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