Comments on: #980 Old, dangerous playground equipment

By: Megan

Megan — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:24:56 +0000

We used to have the best playground in the world. It was called the Adventure playground and it was CRAYZAY….something was always broken, it was built by our school’s caretaker, and it was made out of wood, tires and ropes.

It was utterly fantastic, especially the tower which took you 3 storeys up with dizzying heights and a fireman’s pole that took you all the way down again. We had a gigantic metal slide that fried you in summer and a frightening maypole with ropes that you had to get on someone’s shoulder to climb up.
In my final year at primary school our new principal bulldozed the entire thing. It broke all of our hearts. What made it worse is that it was replaced WITH A PUSSY COLOURFUL 2M HIGH NEW PLAYGROUND!!!
I will never forget the Adventure. Best playground EVAH!

By: A

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:19:05 +0000

I love you Belvin.

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Numero Uno: It’s Awesome | Amaze Me — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:07:21 +0000

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By: Connie

Connie — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 03:49:14 +0000

THANK YOU, THANK YOU! I have been asking people for years about a school playground in Cgo that I loved because it had a ladder up to two paralell bars, and you would wrap your arms and legs around the bars and slide down. No one else remembered them and I thought maybe I was loosing my mind! And…you have a picture of one! Now I can prove my memory and sanity to everyone! I love it.

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:33:58 +0000

That’s why I’m glad I live in a small town. There are 2 parks, 1 is safe and boring while thee other is dangerous and fun.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:30:30 +0000

I was Googling some of this old playground equipment and came across an old book called Playground Technique and Playcraft – VOLUME ONE A Popular Text book of Playground Philosophy Architecture Construction and Equipment by ARTHUR LELAND.
Its kind of interesting and it actually shows how to build some of these pieces of equipment including the Giant Stride! (Or at least how they built them in 1913)
http://books.google.com/books?id=kFZLAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Playground+technique+and+playcraft&source=bl&ots=WeiSVgnbRw&sig=EZ7w1EPr-RRrCE0JvpY2CG9Ii9c&hl=en&ei=ywNfTMjpDZ3YtAOUpYnmDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ6AEwAA

By: Hale

Hale — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 03:14:57 +0000

Oh, god. I remember that we used to have the spider at my elementary school— ya know, that gigantic dome made of crossed bars that you could crawl on. One kid fell off the top and broke his arm, and my friend fell off and knocked out his two front teeth. After that, it was uprooted and replaced by a caterpillar (a curvy, horizontal ladder-thing), which was significantly less fun.

Gooooood times. XD

By: peg

peg — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:44:30 +0000

that’s exactly what I find my kids do too! kids want challenge. I live out in western canada, we have alot of “safe” playgrounds so what do the kids do?…they have come up with a game called grounders…this is where they basically play tag on the equipment but the person who is “it” has to keep their eyes closed!….

By: Samuel

Samuel — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:10:37 +0000

amen to that, although plastic does get hot it’s just not the same. I will disagree on one point, sand, I hated sand as a kid and like the weird feel of the rubber stuff, so keep the metal slide and put down some rubber stuff…

By: Drew

Drew — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:59:40 +0000

Anybody remember that metal climbing rainbow with the gap in the middle? What was the purpose of the gap – to have little kids try and climb over it? (which I did, once, when I was 7, only to fall through to the sharp gravel below, bloodying my face…) I remember the big metal slide, where you would hope that the friction wouldn’t make you bare legs stick on the way down and cause burns? Were adults trying to test Darwinian theories on us??