Vintage playground equipment

[blownragtop]

My daughter is 5 (soon to be 6), so I’ve spent a considerable amount of time on various playgrounds and playcenters. I’m always amazed at how our overly litigious society has designed all the fun (aka ‘danger’) out of playground equipment.

When I was a little kid we lived in Oak Cliff and they had one of these….



All Metal Awesomeness.

Look how ridiculously steep that slide is. Then it’s ribbed to lessen contact drag and maximize speed. Yes…



As awesome as that is - look at this contraption from the same maker. Holy Death Trap. It must be 25+ feet tall.

[Nemo]

I used to play in one of those in oakcliff as well, it is apart now and off of ledbetter and cockrell hill rd at a day car.

[Baba Ganoush]

Used to play on one of these in Huffines Park in Richardson. The good ole days!

Edit: the first pic is THE actual one





Or the rocket at Heights Park



All are history by now I'm sure.

[Binky]

I remember the steel ones that were so hot in the summer you'd fry your hands and legs. But that never stopped anyone.

[CJ]

lol that thing is fucking awesome. excellent thread.

[GrayStangGT]

I remember the steel ones that were so hot in the summer you'd fry your hands and legs. But that never stopped anyone.

There was a park by my grandparents house when I was a kid that still had the original play ground from the 60's, it looked like giant hamburgers and those things were like an oven in the summer.

This is from another old park here called Dennis the Menace, they pussified it some though by taking the slide off the tail and putting a little plastic one on the front.

[Buick355]

I don't think I'd let my kid on the Miracle Sputnik.

[line-em-up]

I remember the steel ones that were so hot in the summer you'd fry your hands and legs. But that never stopped anyone.

Yep. I burned mine more than a few times. Those metal slides were hell on the back side of your legs. That was okay, though. That's what toughened us up, as opposed to today.

[YALE]

What was the park that was built out of railroad ties and metal slides? It was gigantic, and there were go-karts right by it. That joint was awesome.

[Chili]

I remember the steel ones that were so hot in the summer you'd fry your hands and legs. But that never stopped anyone.

Not sure if that's any worse than those PVC or fiberglass, or whatever that would shock the shit out of you as you slid down. lol

[YALE]

Not sure if that's any worse than those PVC or fiberglass, or whatever that would shock the shit out of you as you slid down. lol

PVC! Our school had one, and they let a janitor build it, so he put the sections together a little crooked. One section had a big lip, and when you hit it, you'd bust the shit out of your tailbone. We quit using it after the first week, lol.

[Cannon88]

There is one very similar to this in Benbrook.

[crapstang]

Instead we have these:

[CJ]

Lol

[stephen4785]

There is one very similar to this in Benbrook.

Except they blocked off access to the robots head. Pisses me off that I cant take my kids up there.