Playgrounds now vs. Playgrounds then
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- They don't make 'em like they used to 🛝
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I remember sliding on those baking sheets when it was 100 degrees.
I went once in shorts when I was 4 and I NEVER RODE A SLIDE AGAIN.
Fuck that's a good name for those, Baking sheets XD. We have them up here in Canada and they get stupidly hot in the summer, and even when they're not hot, they're terrible slides as any exposed skin grips the metal and either really hurts, or slows you down to a crawl
Perfect 👍 , polished to a mirror finish from thousands of butts sliding down. You could literally bake something on them ,😂😂😂😂
The new plastic ones are dangerous when combined with a winter snowsuit and cold weather.😳😳😳 As a new mom, I didn't know if I should have laughed or cried at how fast he shot by me and into a snow pile a good 2 feet away from the bottom of the slide.😳😳😳
when i was a kid, if you didn't go home with 2nd degree burns from a metal slide that was 20' high, did you really go to the playground?
The merry-go-round was a Cuisinart kid processor and boy was it fun!
The see-saw taught you valuable lessons about who could or could not be trusted.
Do you remember having one kid hanging on for dear life while 2-3 others standing next to it would spin it as fast as they could. Then when it would stop you had to try and walk a straight line 🤣🤣🤣 Never managed it myself, but I never threw up either, so that was a win I guess.
@@Vivie357 Right? I'm pretty sure "Lord of the Flies" was inspired by observing one of those old playgrounds. 😝
@@Vivie357 I remember one playground had single person ones that were like tilted egg-shells. You had to shift your weight to spin. I spun until the lake in one direction and woods in the other were just a single diarrhea colored blur. Then I leapt off, landed perfectly on my feet... and immediately fell face first to the ground like a slasher victim who didn't realize the killer was behind him. Had a couple people asking if I was alright as I laid there for a while, waiting for my personal 8.0 earthquake to finally stop
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Good ole qweesenart
I loved to launch myself off the swings into the sawdust or if I had a lot of energy behind it, land in the grass. A grass landing meant you had skills.
Our swings were on asphalt. They also were on the edge of a hill. Jump one way and it was pretty normal for the time. Jump the other way and hope your parents had insurance.
sawdust? We had gravel!
And no ankles for the rest of the day.
sawdust? i had large woodchips (it went through my shoes more times than i would like to remember)
U had grass ! So posh our parks had cement only 😂😂 projects of Boston
Playgrounds then were a metaphor for life. It was the way to learn the world is not a safe place, in a fun way.
It’s called a playground because the ground teaches you a lesson
Get to the middle of the merry-go-round and get low. That's what to do when the big kids come push.
Yep... and sometimes you go down the slide, and realize the guy who made it slopped it so you actually go airborne for a moment, land the wrong way and have a life time of back problems after.. So much fun.
@@typerexc definitely survival of the fittest lol
@@jenetikitty heck yeah it was!!!
As a kid, we played a game with the swings that we called road kill. Essentially you get four people swinging, and then you have to run across the middle of the swing set without getting hit by anyone going back and forth.
So, Frogger before Frogger was a thing, but with a lot more motivation.
Never heard of that as a kid, but our goal was to try to get above the bar that holds the swing and/or jump as far as possible.
do you know my elementary school friends? we did this exact same thing with the exact same name
We did the same thing!
Yeah, my 2-year-old still plays that game. With strangers. Without warning. Kids will be kids.
I remember being a kid and we'd see who could jump off of stuff at the playground. We would launch ourselves off of the swing set. I'm not saying safety isn't important, but we survived.
When you're 6 safety is the opposite of fun
It was just all natural selection!
For real. It's was like a lesson for us to at least think a but what we were doing while having the times of our lives.
you’re forgetting the kids who didnt survive and arent here to tell their story
So it's okay.
Don't forget the old tractor tires. Either stacked as cubes to climb around in or upright and decreasingly buried in the ground like the most burning hot steps in the world.
The tires are my Roman empire.
And they always smelled like urine inside
I sprained my finger so bad playing on those that my whole hand swelled up. Those things were AWESOME.
i love how there’s an actual study about how more risky playgrounds make children more cautious and safety aware, as well as helping them learn
But lawsuits! 🙄
@@sarahlongstaff5101 If the playground wasn’t at fault for the injury they are not liable
Example: If a child falls off a slide, the playground is not liable
The parents also have responsibility in determining risk factors
@@sarahlongstaff5101 also when i say risky, i don’t mean inherently dangerous
I mean not building overly safe, boring structures that do not promote physical activity
I love the Danish adventure playgrounds. I let my kids and their neighbor friends turn our front yard into a parkour course. Ruined the grass. I joked that if the HOA complained I’d just spray the dirt with green paint lol.
In my city, we have a couple of playgrounds where the children can basically build their own stuff. They got wood, nails, hammers. Looks so cool and fun. And teaches them a lot as well!
Thanks for the fond childhood memories, Blistering hot slides, flying off the swings landing in gravel, just add cheese grater bicycle pedals and it's perfect
I can still feel the chips missing from my shins!
Had those bear trap-looking pedals on mine. Could ride barefoot if you didn't mind them exfoliating your whole foot off, but they did have a bright side! It was the side you didn't hit your shin on because it has no bloodstains yet. :D
I still have a scar on my leg from the bicycle pedals
@@j.robertsergertson4513 how about roller skates that you put in your shoes. You hung the key on a string necklace. Hit a bump and ouch they flew off. Needed the key to put them back on. I kept band aids in my pocket for my perpetual knee scrapes.
in the 80s our playground had an airforce jet with the insides torn out, sharp metal everywhere. people still talk about it with fondness decades after they removed it.
Air Force jet? Man, you were really living. The coolest one I experienced was an old firetruck left by a playground at a camp. We spent more time in the firetruck and the abandoned tour boat than we did with the real playground equipment.
bro was a F-4 Phantom pilot
Dang! Some genius WW2 vet dad had a connection! My 8 year old self is jealous!
Metal pipe monkey bars over asphalt.
Fun for evey child 😂
And doing those crazy spins hanging by one knee.
@@julieneff9408 oh yeah!!
We had gravel. Nothing like having to pull a few pieces of gravel out of your skin!
I can still remember the rusty blisters and calluses from those.
The metal slide was spot on
I remember how hot those metal slides became in summer, lol.
The memories, the scars, the memorie loss.
The sheer number of injuries on those playgrounds was legendary
well, I survived
We still have them in the uk. i don't think I've seen a "now one," as shown in the video
" Ay, ye may die. But many years from now when you're lying in your beds would you give just one chance, just one for Freedom?!!!" - Braveheart
In the 70s they set up an obstacle course with tires and a rope climb. One kid was setting off bottle rockets another was shooting tennis balls out of a pop can cannon with lighter fluid. The park would flood after a hard rain a dozen of us would go swimming on the baseball field. It was a relatively quiet summer I only went to the ER twice. 😅
Or playing tackle football after a nasty sunburn getting the blisters ripped off, counting the 100+ mosquito bites or softball. Frisbee was fun too!
You didn't have the full elementary experience if you didn't have a jumping contest or run through the kids swinging.
God, several kids would jump off the swings, but after someone went to the hospital from a concussion, if you were caught jumping off the swings, you would get recess detention for the rest of that day so those people moved on to running through the swings then someone got hurt and the same punishment was enforced. But that's not even the end.
Yea, got kicked square in the face and flew back onto rocks but that was part of the experience
@@Jwoll944sorry man that might have been me
@@heymitch1519 😂
I did both
the wood chips... they softened your fall but you paid in splinters
Or it had a 🐝 nest in it.
And doesn't cause cancer like the "safe" shredded tire padding.
We had gravel. It kept the mud down, but you would occasionally have to pull pieces of gravel out of your skin.
@@bpace2509Still got scars on my knees from an older kid tripping while giving me a running piggy back ride against my will.
Had to pull a dozen or so blood soaked gravel rocks out with tweezers, saline and antiseptic.
Memories.
I remember the scars… the beautiful pain of those slides, of those swings. There is no replacing that
0:29 vegan clouds😭🙏
1:20 "you got a small fry over here hangin' on; you got a Big Mac over here GIVIN' IT A GO. It is game over. I call it the Jimmy-Go-Splat."
“…ya gotta small fry over here hanging on and ya gotta a Big Mac over here giving it a go it is game over..” Lol
I remember when I was 6 I rode my bike to a playground near a state university and there were college guys pushing the merry go round. It was insane. It was terrifying but fun and I got some big scabs.
Hilarious line!
1:20
Yeah, so my brother and I were the big macs when we were teens. I remember one kindergartner thought it was safe. Right before he lost his grip, he actually looked like Superman, completely horizontal to the ground. He survived.
I remember a bunch of us kids getting an older boy going on the merry go round so hard that he was screaming for us to stop. He then hurled his mom’s spaghetti in such a way that it looked like a bloody rainbow. Was the most disgusting thing I’ll never forget!
I miss those tractor tire swings that sat flat with 3 chains that would bind up, no mechanic to keep them from doing so, and you just twist twist twist and then letter SPIN!
Plus they bought the cheap chain with the softer metal that would wear through over time;).
Man you are making me miss the old playground at my park. They removed it a few years back because lawyers got involved. But man it was a cool playground. Went up about 12-15 feet, multiple slides, fire pool, wooden bridge with a 30° incline, moneky bars, and a rusty merry go round 20 yards away. Talk about fun that playground was a steel beam castle and it was awesome
I remember going down the slide standing up. How did we ever survive childhood?
Ever ran from afar to build speed and run/jump up the slidy side?
We used to slide head first on our bellies
The best was running UP the slide, then turning to slide back down!!!
@@lisawestbrook5254 yall are different 😂
In the mid-50’s, we didn’t have anything on our school playgrounds except oiled dirt. Every August before school started, they’d oil the playground to keep down the dirt. I still can pass an oil refinery and remember the start of school. Our reward for a playground fall was oil-stained knees on our new Levi’s, and grit embedded in our hands. And then, the dreaded sting of mercurochrome. Now that’s a story in itself.
OMFG! I need to hear more of this! PLEASE tell me more memories! I had the memories of the tough playground but yours sounds so much cooler!
I used to play that game where'd we'd see who can launch from the swing and hit the ground the furthest distance away.
The trick was to stand up on the swing and use your knees to build a lot more rotation and straighten out yourself on the back swing. This will give you a much higher velocity on the forward swing.
Alot of kids (myself included) got alot of hurt.
This video is hilarious. I unfortunately suffered an injury on the “merry go round”. I forced wife to watch this and she was like is he gonna talk about the hot slide? When it got to that part she couldn’t stop laughing. Job well done.
Took my kids to a playground I used to play on 40 years ago. They loved the 45 degree slide. My son hit the ground and had to run a couple feet to burn out some of that kinetic energy.
Man kids borderline indestructible. When people say they bounce off the wall when playing, they aren’t talking in a metaphorical sense
I remember the frying pans called slides that we slid down in every known position . Legend. And the swings that you swing up to about 90 degrees and jump off. Good times!❤
I grew up in snow country, when they plowed the school parking lot they'd pile the snow by the swings . Nothing beats hurling yourself off the swings into s snow drift ,the 1st day .the 2nd day it froze solid into an ice glacier that you bounced off and landed in the parking lot.
Too funny!
We would grab the trays bread was delivered on to the school cafeteria and use them to go down the slides. Helped get the speed up faster and launch off the slides farther.
We had wooden see saws in the early 60s. We bumped the ground on the down stroke so the other person got airborne. So fun.
Michael Boraaso jumped onto the seesaw I was on with his sister- I went straight up in the air and came down on my chin. I was 7. I got 6 stitches
I'd jump off when my friend was up in the air! BOOOM! 😮😮😮
If they have a tire at the bottom, you can hit the ground harder to launch them higher
@@stephenrichter8940 true!!!!!
My elementary school had a wooden see saw that bumped straight onto the hard ground. My first month of kindergarten I got launched up and came down on my chin, and before that healed one of my buddies jumped off with me at the top. I thought my back was broken, and immediately began looking for an uneducated victim I could get😂😂. Such good times.
I remember a kid falling off and ending up under the merry go round. Those were the good ol days! We weren't raising a country of weenies back then.
But... I'm pretty sure safety concerns increased along with the cost of medical care. 👀
Yeah, kids are soft now. But how long do you want to go back? Asbestos is OK back or black lung is a character failure back or maybe every four of thirteen lives to puberty back?
See how easy is it to make the opposition look stupid?
0:58 It's a good thing the sun never moves
All sandboxes are litter boxes eventually. Ask me how I know. I loved those merry-go-round barf machines though. LOVED.
we all poop in 'em right... ??
@@CharlieBerens Hey when ya gotta go, ya gotta go.
I LITERALLY would dig all the cat poop out of my sandbox (with my hands) before playing in the sand when I was a kid.
I grew up on 50's-era playgrounds, and have the scars to prove it. What fun!
"Winner goes to the hospital" 👌
That was my childhood playground. Black top surface and metal slides that you burned your ass on. It’s amazing we made it through recess.
Some of the teachers, or nuns in my case, maybe were hoping you wouldn’t!😂
We had a metal slide we would rub wax paper on to go faster. Eventually it got a cut/rust towards the end so we had to jump off the side before we reached it.
I so did that too! Wheee!😅😅😅
YES! Another user of the wax paper on the slide to speed it up!!!!!
@@amyhull754 ZOOOOOOOM! OUCH!😅😅😅
watched it 3 times in a row, that's how good and relatable it is
As one who survived playgrounds back then, it helps character honestly if you ask me.
I grew up in the 80s. I can tell you it doesn't build character being injured. It builds scars, is all. Good parents build character.
@@shawnshurtz9147 building character by being resistant to pain. Face the fear of being hurt for entertainment will follow you through life, the primary lesson learned is move forward in Life or go home
It helps reveal who heals quickly & who does not. That's handy.
;)
Not letting go = pretty underrated it turns out
They are actually safer because kids woukd be more cautious becuase there was danger but now they look for ways to make them unsafe
We used to sit on wax paper on the slide to make it slicker. When I was about 4, we lived across the street from a state policeman. Somehow, he had obtained a state park size slide for his daughter. We jumped off that thing all the time. One day, though, she had her tongue between her teeth. She gashed her tongue and that was the most blood I had ever seen. Doctors made house calls back then so one came rather quickly. Her dad got rid of the slide. I wasn't going to jump off of it anymore as it was!
You are the FIRST person I've seen who knew the wax paper trick that my mom taught me. Man...a good, tall metal slide, scoot down it first to use your pants to wipe off the dust, then go down a few times on the wax paper, then ZOOOOOM!!!
Leave it to a cop to get the best "stuff" 😄
This is great! Thank you for the refresh on childhood memories.
launching off swing sets was everything. and the hot slide built character.
“There’s a bubbler by the pisser” Goodt Lordt 😂
Thats where they were! Right after the benches with the old vets smoking and spitting.
I'm 63 years old and still have a scar on my knee from the "Jimmy-Go-Splat". 😊
twins!
No joke, I took my niece to a park the other week and there were actual seatbelts on the swings… lol she’s like 9 and goes “What the actual heck?! That seems so much more dangerous?! If you fall off, you’re just hanging there getting your face dragged across this rubber sandpaper!” and she was scraping her shoe across it like a grumpy old man.. lmao
I realized then that I’m proud of those kids and she spends way too much time with me.
Omg can’t stop laughing at the explanations of why the items are there. 😂
Not to get too technical but...many kid's doctors are recommending that kids have a level of "risky play". Not dead risky but maybe broken bone risky .
Medical science has caught up with what we have always known lol.
There's a fun passage in ancient KungFu that mentions something similar to CHARACTER. Known as *Que/Xue* as Not to be confused with Qi. [My source, chapt 12 of "72 Arts of Shaolin" book]// nobody asked, but y'know the door was opened.
I agree.
It's because we're worried about their mental resilience now.
I remember climbing EVERYTHING on the playground as a kid. I swear I climbed the steel pylons all the way to the top where the plastic shade covers were. I also remember falling off the giant tube slide once and spraining my arm. Never broke any bones but got so many scraped knees
Good, I'm feeling better about my old lady Gramma skills now... I draw the line at lawn darts...and am not teaching anyone to light firecrackers with a lit Kool cigarette like my Dad 😂
😂 the “now” is sadly true - my parents would’ve said “good luck, God bless” and sent me on my way 😂
I’m wearing a flannel exactly like Charlie’s rn lol. Shoutout Savvy Salvage in Dyersville, IA for that find! Bought 2 shirts from there when I was visiting the town otw to the Field of Dreams
And the swings - they should tip if you swing very hard. It trains your reflexes and adds excitement to an otherwise boring activity. Teeter totters: so the one on the bottom can get off and laugh when the one up high breaks their ass.
A " Jimmy goes splat." Lol
Bonafide "then" playground survivor here. I'm surely wiser, tougher and more germ resistant as a result. #OG
Nothing like sliding down that griddle, and flying off that wheel of death (like gravitron minus the walls) lol. My blood is probably still soaked into the asphalt as a sacrifice to the playground gods at the ones I grew up by 😂
Dude slides in the summer burned my butt so much lmao this brings back so many memories.
When I was a lil child my only toys were a piece of glass, a brick, and a rusty nail!!!
And you walked to school uphill both ways in the snow, every child with a log in their backpack so that the teacher could heat the classroom?
@@PhilosophyOnTheNightbus 20 miles both ways! And I had to work in a coal mine since I learned how to carry that pike axe at the age of 3.
And I was happy to have them!
Tetanus builds character!
Geez, you had a rusty nail?!? I always wanted a rusty nail, but my folks said they're too expensive.
I loved those playgrounds. I was gutted to find out that kids can fling themselves off the swings any more. That was AWESOME.
Wdym they can't? What's stopping them?
@@gator_productions Park rules? Helicopter parents? Could be anything these days.
@@gator_productions are they not encased in diaper-looking seats?
@@JudgeHill I'm pretty sure those swings are meant for younger kids
Wdym?? They still do that
so true and so sad, gen x was the last of the golden age of able to be a kid.
Ahhh,,, sweet memories of my childhood brings back so many scars!!!😂😂😂
"Upcycled" god I hadn't heard that word in a year and wish i'd continued that streak
And sometimes we would take wax paper down the metal slide so I swear you would be going like 60 mph!😝. So glad I grew up in the 60’s where kids could still have fun! 😂
Weirdest experience for me as an adult working at a school is that the playground had a merry go round, not even an old rusted one, it was relatively new, but they weren't allowed to play on it because it was "unsafe". Back in MY day we had two merry go rounds at our playground, one big normal beat up rusty one that went at normal speeds, and one highly coveted tiny one that went to mach 5 with one spin. And I don't remember anyone getting any severe injuries from either of them.
It ain't a trip to the playground until you scarp a knee ah good times
This reminds me how the playground I used to go to as a kid: this massive multi-area wooden kid city that had things like wooden castles with those big ass reflective metal slides, a Noah's ark and plenty of things for kids to hang off of/fall at least a story down. All of it is gone now. Replaced with new safety plastic equipment. It's still a big playground that my kids enjoy, but it's got nothing on the massive wooden monstrosities that I spend hours on days playing at and yeah getting scrapped, banged up and sometimes burned (cause of the hot slide), but man that was fun shit. Feel like those old playgrounds that had enough height for you to get hurt, but not go-to-the-ER hurt helped build character and at the very least made us a bit more cautious about what we were doing. It was like a soft lesson of "do stupid things, win stupid prizes", but having fun playing the 10th siege of the massive wooden castle with sticks for swords.
Someone else made a good point that when doctors got more expensive the playgrounds got more safe!
@@Bettinasisrg that actually makes sense
I remember in Kindergarden a boy falling off the Monkey Bars and severly breaking his arm. Didn't stop anyone from playing on them and he was a celebrity in his cast, which we all signed.
Don't forget the huge metal zipline thing. Get a running start so you slam into the end and go flying onto the rocks!
I've been running machines that produce playground equipment for 20 years and I totally agree that it's not like in the old days as a kid. The videos they have us watch to "inspire" us at work are exactly like the guy in the blue hat.
The sound the back of the thighs makes squeaking down the slide. Good memories.
Everything was able to hurt you, and building skills with knowledge to avoid all that was priceless. And the best part is that you can flex after you master the place. I miss old playgrounds.
I found an abandoned playground in the woods. Seemed like a dream come true till I went down the rusted out slide head first on my stomach, leaving skin behind the whole way down. Somehow I survived that before the days of antibiotic salve and without ever breathing a word of it to my mother.
On the swings we were always trying to swing high enough to actually go over the top.i t
Think I witnessed success like twice and one of those kids I think ended up with a broken bone. On the domed monkey bar thing we used to see who could walk up those and one time I don't remember if I walked up it or if I was doing something else but I fell through the hole to the ground below and knocked myself unconscious and when I woke up the whole playground was empty they just left me laying there and everybody went back inside It was pretty surreal to wake up to a completely vacant playground and then have to walk into the building and explain to the teacher that I just woke up underneath the monkey bars and I had to go down to the office where they had to check me over and make sure I was okay yep good times. Sorry for the run-on sentence I'm doing talk to text with no punctuation.
My mother & uncle succeeded in doing a 360 on the swing. According my mother, it took a 2nd person pushing the swing to be able to get enough momentum to go over the top. Amazingly, they survived childhood. It was the Depression and the adults were too busy trying to find jobs, to pay much attention to what kids were doing on the playground.
We actually had a concrete culvert pipe on rollers. It was big enough for an adult to walk through by leaning over. Once you get it spinning it will keep going even if you fall. Plus we had the giant pipe bar jungle that me and every one of my cousins broke an arm or leg on at least once.
Man, that makes me miss the old park I went to as a kid. Metal slides, old tractor tires stuffed halfway into the ground, a maze and pirate ship built entirely out of wood so you'd inevitably get splinters, swing sets we'd jump off of into the sand pit. It all got torn down eventually after they apparently discovered arsenic in it or something like that. Tch.
Bruh the bots are here freakin instantly
Everywhere
... which is exactly what a bot would say... We're on to you, bot.
i reported five of them within the first minute
@@JohnSmith-te1zd hahahahaha
@@igobysoulhow can you tell them apart? They are becoming more and more natural.
Not quite an old man but not a young man. This hit me in the feelers, t bar on a track (got a scar on my brow), tire swings that were bobcat tires laid flat with 4 chains (got a concussion from that),swing set that was 25' tall (never actually got injured on jumping off of or climbing), slides (ol iron frier,smart enough to dump water on it and go faster). When kids weren't coddeled
I loved the gravel cushioning. The asphalt area was for double Dutch, dodgeball, 4-square, and the hopping game with the chalk. Oh, and the monkey bar dome!. Also, the 🛝 had to have the bar for us to do a quick flip on before landing on the metal sheet to give us speed and style points!
Don’t forget that some upcycled rubber was found to contain carcinogens so children could roll around it!🤑🤑🔥🔥🤪🤪
I feel like everyone involved was so happy to finally have something to do with old tires that was more productive than burning them, they totally forgot that they were still old car parts.
Anyone else bring parchment paper to the play ground so you could go even faster down the slides?
When life gives you baking sheets, bring parchment paper, I guess.
Wax paper made the slide faster!😂
I mean, I survived. Playing in a playground was a freaking contact sport back then, man.
Back then you got baked on the slides
Now you get the electric chair
My elementary school playground!
"Dangerous" playgrounds were the best!
This is so fuckin' real old school playgrounds are just teaching kids how to do risk assessment
Being able to get up the good ol' sheet metal slide during the summer used to be a test of character.
You forgot those metal geodesic dome climbing things that were 20 feet tall. Broke my arm falling from one. We had a huge metal straight (ha ha not intended) slide in our lake and a spiral slide, I swear they were 30 feet or more. My Mom broke her ankle on the spiral one. We did have huge Oak and Maple trees in our playground though back in the 1970s. I like both but I'm purple so what do I know!
10/10 for accuracy, realism, and nostalgia! Nicely done Charlie!
That water pressure one for the water fountain was so true though
I miss almost getting a splinter from the climbing structure made of stacked boxes.
Your best written jokes this year. top notch work, both playgrounds.
It took me a couple of years to realize why there were no merry go rounds in California after we moved from Florida, when I was 4.
So what conclusion did your 6-year-old self come to about the merry-go-rounds or lack there of in California?
@@Mad4400 that Cali is more like the modern park designer
@@evanwilliams1750 Profound!
My childhood vs my children's. Those poor kids are missing out.
The old ones were always better though. We went to a small town midwestern playground a couple times growing up where most of the playground were old tires of all sizes and we’d play tire tag. If ya fell off (they flipped sometimes and some were firmer than others) then you were it same as if ya’d been tagged.
We need an in between! Modern technology, with old school risk. Steep plastic slides, tall and challenging climbing structures, rubber surfacing tiles, merry go rounds, see saws!
Junkyard parts in our playground...that's what tetanus shots are for, amirite?
Urite!
45 degrees is both the angle of the slide and their temperature in Celsius on a summer day.
Playground now: Gonna need go found me to start, and monthly subscription to join.
Playground then: No teeth, no rules, no lawsuits, no breaks. Bush with predator included
in all honesty, we need a little of both.
For hard core playground vets, don’t get me started on the black top- it’s a death factory..only they fastest, strongest kids may rule .. Monday through Friday.
I just love how he slipped in centripetal force rather than saying (the more commonly quoted but incorrect) centrifugal force when talking about the merry-go-round! Cheers Charlie!
Blisters builds character.
absolutely
Rocks for a safety break 😂
nothin will make ya stop harder than that
@CharlieBerens you're the freight truckers daycare service