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It was twice as tall, and there were two poles connected to each other by the ropes. Playing tag on this would last all day. Then they got rid of it, and all that was left was a huge empty sand pit.
What hurts the most is that my kids won't ever get to experience the joy
Can't imagine what it would be like if you had to staff it either or take responsiblity of the actions of little shit kids. Between fights between kids and molestation allegations, you'd probably loose everything you owned.
really a fucking shame too. Even if someone wanted to open stuff like that junk in japan, it would probably get ruined by assholes.
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Yea, I was actually if any of the ones pictured above might have been his design.
When the sculpture was origionally built the artist included a large, suspended platform hanging a foot off the ground and attached with chains to the apex. That info in not included in the current campus tour guide but my parents both went there as well and they showed me pictures of it back when. You could lounge on the platform and study or swing or whatever. The university removed the swing without telling the artist and in retaliation for them mutilating his work he returned and painted the whole thing a bright orange.
I considered several times of building a new platform as a prank (the attachment ring is still welded to the structure) but never got around to it.
maybe when I get home :wink:
Remember when Homer gets the trampoline and results in hundreds and hundreds of children laying injured on his lawn? Yes!
Old time playgrounds like everyone is describing here rewarded the bold and punished the unskilled. You got a lot of respect for climbing to the highest tower.
However - a lot of kids did get killed as a result. Falling head first off of a large structure (regardless of sand or wood chips) is a real fast way to the emergency room and lifelong problems - if not death.
So, in that sense, I have to support the change to safer equipment. I couldn't say with a straight face to any parents who lost their kids in a playground incident "lawl, too bad - darwin at work mi rite?"
I really think that a play structure doesn't have to be tall to be cool or stimulating. The wooden one I miss from near my old school was not any taller than it's plastic and metal replacement but it was big, and complex and dammit it was unique; you could tell that the designer put some thought into it. It took awhile to explore fully. Kids who had never seen it before would tear from their parents and bolt for it when they saw it.
Most of the repacements for these wooden creations are the same thing over and over: four steps up and a slide and pole, swings on the side. A kid doesen't have to explore it because he's already seen it a dozen times before.
my campus did have a lot of "sculptures for climbing on"
Yeah, but don't more kids get killed riding bicycles?
Reminds me of an article I read where a mom was all, "I won't let my child drink orange juice, it might cause CANCER!" and they had a picture of her on a bicycle . . . with her helmetless child riding unstrapped in the "child seat" behind her.
Oh man, when I was a kid there was this one playground with a huge "ship" made out of the standard rounded playground logs. The "mast" had metal bars for climbing and was high enough that it gave me vertigo. All kinds of awesome.
Also, vivid memories of a playground with the impossibly long Seesaws of Death.
Unfortunately she works full time now and one of her two playground projects has been taken apart because it needed restoration the town could not afford. It was a wood/steel hybrid construction and had a club-house, no less than 3 slides, a space-trolley/zip line, jungle gym, the works. Random steering wheels and other miscellaneous items were installed all around which added to my childhood imagination.
My favorite part by far was the 2-story, 3-part fire-pole on one of the towers. Theoretically you could have 3 kids slide down at once or one kid could grab two poles and ladder-slide. Growing up on Ghostbusters and the old Adam West Batman reruns made me love this part of the playground the most. I hope they get the last few grand in donations, otherwise they'll probably put up a few plastic slides and call it a day.
Fucking badass.
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it wasn't really that fast. Probably about 25mph or so.
You were kind hooked into a harness thing, so you didn't have to hold on, or not be upside down.
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