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and now we have these...

 

[Hugo Habicht]

 

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when my wife hit one, I said screw the diagram. I'll just send an actual pic.

 

[JimDeL]

There may be some actual pictures somewhere in boxes we move as generations die off, but here are some pics that resemble the equipment in the "town" playground when I was a kid. The volunteer fire company maintained a small park for the kids in that end of town. There was a baseball field and a few pieces of equipment.

The jungle gym was a pipe assembly very much like the one in the picture below. It could get slippery when wet and there were a few bruises and damaged teeth.

The merry-go-round was just like the picture below. A kid with strong legs could stand in the center and get it going fast enough to make the kids on the seats scream (and a few times even fall off).

The swingset in the picture looks like a smaller model from the same manufacturer that we had. Ours had the slide at one end, three swings next to that, then a fixed pipe bar at around 6' off the ground and finally two see-saws. the swing seats were made of 2x8's with metal plates top and bottom so they wouldn't split. They were a lot easier to jump from that those newfangled rubber ones. The see-saws were maybe 2x12's with pipe T handles and metal scalloped gadgets on the bottom to allow for some adjustment. Smarter kids didn't use the sandbox because the cats did

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We had all of those in a local park, circa 1955. Also had a really high metal (of course) slide - probably 14~15 feet - with no rails. All of them were installed atop an asphalt surface.

Saw a bunch of kids fall. Took a few falls myself. Never saw a truly serious injury, though. Just some cuts, scrapes, and bruises. We survived.

There was no "Playground Monitor" either.

 

[WI_Hedgehog]