Vintage playground equipment

[lee earley]

I am old enough to remember some of those. sure were awful to get on one of those slides in the summertime and when you got all the way to the bottom you looked like a piece of well done bacon.

[CJ]

I remember the steel dishes that spun in the playground. My brother got me going to fast on one of those I passed out and got slung into the monkey bars, woke up with a smashed face and shoulder and I was 10 foot from where I last remembered being. Good times.

[4king]

Get a sheet of wax paper on one of the huge slides and it would shoot you 20ft out on your ass.

[Sean88gt]

We had a slide that curved up so you could get maximum air as you deployed at 79mph from the 60* incline.

[barronj]

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

I have two girls, 3 & 5, and I don't think I could keep them off it. They swing on anything, climb on everything, jump off whatever they can.

They scare every parent around when they're playing, just like I did when I was a little shit.

[ceyko]

Yea that doesn't sound as bad, you get inside one in West Texas when its 100+ you had better not touch it where the sun is shinning directly on the shinny inside parts lol.

Hell, just the yellow slides at a park in Richardson burned my boy's leg pretty good from the sun last summer. We just told him to hold his legs up higher and don't goof around getting down it. (he was 2 1/2 at the time)

He did good, but I'll admit I do look for equipment in the shade now during the summer. haha

[line-em-up]

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

The big one at the state fair does that. I was watching people come down and it was popping so loud and hard that people screaming "ouch".

[line-em-up]

I broke my collar bone when I was 7 on that Space Ship at Pollard Park- good times.
Back then they wrapped your arm in pledge of allegiance format and wrapped a cast around your entire back- hot itchy bitch in August heat

In the 4th grade, I slipped off of the monkey bars and broke my arm. The morning dew makes em slippery.

[Wish4svts]

Even the swings suck now... They're all 10-12 feet so you can't really get any height. I remember ours was 18 feet tall and shit could you get height AND distance launching from the swing. Don't forget about the backflips too.

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[Whiteboy]

Very cool grew up on alot of those