Garrett McCullough
MicheleV_AKI often wonder how I survived my childhood considering these were what we played on in the park in the neighborhood! 😲 😵
#ISurvivedMyChildhood #DeathTrapsInParks
#ISurvivedMyChildhood #DeathTrapsInParks
Rudie V..@MicheleV_AK Right? How did we not get 2nd degree burns? 🥵
@rudiev Right!? Crazy!
Phooz@MicheleV_AK @rudiev it's what made us, basically. And lots of therapy, of course.
Toots McGee@MicheleV_AK I feel shooting pains in my tailbone just looking at the teeter totter pic
@emmreef LOL!! So true! OMG!
Kara Shallenberg@MicheleV_AK at my school we had all this equipment ON ASPHALT
New Home = @@RiversideBryan @MicheleV_AK you don’t see kids running around with skinned knees anymore. Every kid had a skinned knee all the time in the 70s
@Kayray @RiversideBryan And stitches on our foreheads, etc. Oh the good ole days!
@MicheleV_AK @RiversideBryan @DaNanner it’s exciting when the kid on the other end of the see-saw (teeter-totter) gets off suddenly while you’re high in the air. How did we not break our spines?
Nick 'The Viking'There's rubber mats and grass and sand it's fine.
Kids are rugged.
🙄
Saw a preschool classmate fall off a slide, land in the sand but just far enough to conk his head on the edge of the sidewalk. Ran off screaming toward the building with a small trail of blood running down his shirt.
I remember nothing more of the incident, other than I was watching him climb and thinking it didn't look good, then he fell and I was "Yup, looked bad."
Bizarre memory 🤣
@nlarson830 And we didn't wear seat belts. Just so many things we actually survived!
Coho@MicheleV_AK
I miss jungle gyms! So much fun, kids are missing out. Riding in the back if an open pick up truck too.
I miss jungle gyms! So much fun, kids are missing out. Riding in the back if an open pick up truck too.
@Coho Oh yeh! Did that, too. The only thing we were forbidden to do is ride on a mini-bike, which I find hysterical as we rode bicycles without helmets...lol!
MonarchLady@MicheleV_AK I got a greenstick leg fracture when I fell on upper left machine in fourth grade.
@MonarchLady I am so sorry! I had many friends who had broken bones.
@MicheleV_AK My childhood specialty was falling out of trees but I always landed on my head so no damage!
Brian Moakley@MicheleV_AK In the late 70s, my local playground featured a series of connected tubes that you climb around, on top, and inside.
They were naturally made of concrete.
Surrounded by sand. Filled with cigarette butts and broken beer bottles.
@vegetarianzombie Because of course! 😜 😲
The Febrile Muse@MicheleV_AK And those very HOT steel slides.
@CMDoran ☀️ Sizzled butts and legs!
@MicheleV_AK when I was a kid, we had a merry-go-round that a mechanical system to make it go faster. It was sorta like those old timey rail cars that you pump up and down to drive but it was with your hands and feet
We would get it going fast and then stand up and jump off, but you had to time it right because it was surrounded by trees! 😂
I found a couple pics of similar ones!
@gwmccull Holy crap! You are lucky to be alive!
@MicheleV_AK somehow my mom allowed us to do it but she told us she couldn't watch cause it scared her too badly. Like wtf mom, say no?
@gwmccull I'm thinking lots of parents felt that way, but didn't say it out loud.
Tiny Frightening Woman@MicheleV_AK @_L1vY_ my now adult son broke off the inside corners of his two front teeth on monkey bars when he was 6. :/
Callisto@baba_lilith @MicheleV_AK @_L1vY_ I was a little older, my front teeth had just come in so I think I was 7? I broke half of one of them off falling off a cardboard box in my parents' own basement so :-/
@callisto @baba_lilith @_L1vY_ Oh no! You didn't even get the "pleasure" of doing it on solid steel/metal!
AnneTheWriter@MicheleV_AK
I remember those kinds of #playground equipment, plus a long metal slide. The metal slide would bake in the sun and burn your skin if you were wearing shorts and didn't keep your bare skin off the metal. I would have to lean back a bit, put my shoes on the slide, and keep my knees up high, to avoid injury. It was best to try sliding on a cloudy day. LOL
#Playgrounds #Parks #PlaygroundGames #Boomer #Boomers #ChildSafety
I remember those kinds of #playground equipment, plus a long metal slide. The metal slide would bake in the sun and burn your skin if you were wearing shorts and didn't keep your bare skin off the metal. I would have to lean back a bit, put my shoes on the slide, and keep my knees up high, to avoid injury. It was best to try sliding on a cloudy day. LOL
#Playgrounds #Parks #PlaygroundGames #Boomer #Boomers #ChildSafety
Hänzi Pōtter@AnneTheWriter1 @MicheleV_AK I guess it was the norm until the first parents decided to sue the first city hall for having metal slide that gets hot in the sun, then everything collapsed 😃
@hszakher @AnneTheWriter1 I wonder what genius thought metal playground equipment was a great idea?
@MicheleV_AK @AnneTheWriter1 I guess this was back then when everything was heavy duty but "bio-degradable"(i.e. can rust 😀) (same for reusable glass soda and milk bottles)
Steve's Place@MicheleV_AK @hszakher @AnneTheWriter1 'Twas that or wood in the time before plastic. The stuff kids climbed on would get a lot of wear.
My uncle was a dentist. He and his kids were over, roughhousing around our backyard swing set when one of them ran, teeth first, into a supporting bar. Metal was brutally durable.
@stevesplace @MicheleV_AK @AnneTheWriter1 exactly 😃. wood would not last that long and you'd risk getting splinter if not maintained. and with rain and humidity, it won't last 🤷♂️
@stevesplace @hszakher @AnneTheWriter1 Ouch!! That happened a lot. Good thing we didn't need those baby teeth anyway, right?
@AnneTheWriter1 Same! Those things became frying pans in the sun.
Joyce@MicheleV_AK I think the teeter totters were the most dangerous.
Druid 🏴@MicheleV_AK The white dust on the floor under the climbing frame... that's actually a layer of shattered teeth.
@druid Sad, but probably quite true.
Sharonbw stands with Minnesota@MicheleV_AK
I often wonder the same thing, but I was well into my childhood before seat belts came along in cars.
You only forgot one picture - of the impossibly tall metal slide with minimal guard rails at the top. It was guaranteed to burn your legs in the summer. 😬
@Sharonbw Without question!
egregious@MicheleV_AK Good times
Callalily@MicheleV_AK
I went on all of those too. We were tough kids back than.
I went on all of those too. We were tough kids back than.
@Callalily Indeed we were!