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That's scares me. I'm a total over protective parent, probably to a fault.
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We didn't have anything that huge but I remember the lack of safety concerns very well. One of my happiest accomplishments as a fat kid was to get to the very top of the swing set. Good times! 
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I remember when they built the large wooden one in Gladstone when I was a kid. I loved climbing on that thing.
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Those of us that survived our wonderful childhood are survivors.
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Some things were crazy. My grade school playground was on asphalt!
A simple safety thing for many playgrounds is to move the swings - so the path between stations/areas does not go thru the swing area.
Then having chips or sand to fall on.
This one started as a play structure. To teach the children, boys, how to walk the iron - get jobs putting up those skyscrapers.
A simple safety thing for many playgrounds is to move the swings - so the path between stations/areas does not go thru the swing area.
Then having chips or sand to fall on.
This one started as a play structure. To teach the children, boys, how to walk the iron - get jobs putting up those skyscrapers.
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We had a "Jungle Gym" that had a hard rubber base, but no safety what so ever. We wojld play TAG on that thing all the time. One of my class mates took a header off the top and split his forehead open good. The school never changed the playground until 20 years after I went There! Every thing was on cement and I'm surrised more kids didn't get hurt all those years!
The park that we used to go to had one of those rocket things with a slide coming off the second or third Tere
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LOL... I've played on some of those types of playgrounds as a child. Anyone remember the wooden structure in Mt. Scott park made out of railroad ties and the awesome slivers you'd get off them?
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My grade school playground was also asphalt. The playground at the park were dirt.
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Yah!
Remember going places without a car seat, in vehicles that only had lap belts (or none at all!), and believe it or not...no airbags!
Used to drive on my dads lap back in the day. Would make SJW's heads plop like pimples if it were today...
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Imagination Station, Gresham -
My grandsons birthday was there, when he was 2, pouring down rain.
Not sure what it looks like today, heard /someone/ burned it down.
My grandsons birthday was there, when he was 2, pouring down rain.
Not sure what it looks like today, heard /someone/ burned it down.
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I didn't know what seat belt was until was 12 years old. At the same time I got my Winchester Model 1906 .22 rifle and had it and ammo in my bedroom closet. I also carried a pocket knife in grade school and high school. Never got into any trouble with either knives of guns. I mean almost everyone carried a pocket knife and a lot of kids had their guns in their closet. Today this considered illegal behavior and subject to harsh penalties. The ironical thing is today is a less safe place to be than in the 50's & 60's with all the new laws and regulations. And my parents and millions of other parents would be considered today as law breakers and very bad parents.
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I grew up at Mt. Scott park. I remember the merry-go-round at the park and at the grade schools. We learned quick, ya just gotta hold on tight. And it made us strong. At the big church on 52nd and Duke, they had a different kind of merry-go-round. Like this...
Instead of the bearing being at the bottom, it was at the top of a long pole, and the merry-go-round hung like a bell. Not only would it spin, it would swing side to side, and the outside would get really high in the air. We survived it too. At Woodmere, we had a really great monkey bars. We never fell. We learned to climb and hold on.
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We didn't have "safe" playgrounds but the only kids that got hurt on them was doing something STUPID....
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Showed these pics to my 78yro dad....he loved them! He looked at me and said; I never rode in a car seat either... you think if I get in the car tomorrow I'll get hurt with out it?
We didn't have "safe" playgrounds but the only kids that got hurt on them was doing something STUPID....
And if you didn't die, you learned something.
We had a slide akin to this on the playground at my elementary school. It wasn't wavy and probably wasn't quite so tall. Guarantee you wouldn't see one like it today! The slide was on the K-3rd grade end of the school. There was no supervision. The bell rang and kids went out and played, rang again we went back to class. Worst injury I remember seeing was in the 3rd grade. A kid fell going up a short set of stairs, hit the edge of a concrete step, right on his forehead. I swear I could see his skull.
Good thing they have all these devices now days for when kids start to grow up they don't have to do anything where they might get hurt if they're not paying attention. Other than pay enough attention to NOT walk in front of trains/buses, into walls, ditches at construction sites etc.
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I recently built some parts for some playground equipment at a local park. I ask the guys doing it why they were spending so much money to fix that old crap and was told that because of liability if it ever gets removed they can't replace it.
