They Don't Make Playgrounds Like They Used To. Roger Radley

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  • They don't make playgrounds like they used to, or at least thats what Roger Radley says in this clip from his first ever Dry Bar Comedy special. In this clip Roger talks about the dangers of old playgrounds and how children today will never know the joy of playing on them. Whether you're someone who remembers the old playgrounds of yesteryear, or your just someone looking for a good laugh, this clip from Roger Radley is sure to keep you laughing from start to finish.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 351

  • @Sabbathissaturday
    @Sabbathissaturday Рік тому +255

    Every playground was made of blazing hot metal in the 60’s 70’s and part of the 80’s! 😂

    • @blueeyes3
      @blueeyes3 Рік тому +19

      They're still around in small awesome towns!
      Definitely a lot in 90s too. 😅

    • @williamhouseholder1558
      @williamhouseholder1558 Рік тому +21

      @@blueeyes3 yep the meatal slides were the best till you wore shorts on a summer day

    • @blueeyes3
      @blueeyes3 Рік тому +12

      @williamhouseholder1558 I still enjoyed them. We grew up very poor, so going to the parks was our best entertainment.
      But sometimes you could go home with a heat burn, And it wasn't from the sun. Not directly anyway. 😆

    • @lynnetheridge1765
      @lynnetheridge1765 Рік тому +6

      Burning legs from the elephant slide.

    • @lynnetheridge1765
      @lynnetheridge1765 Рік тому +5

      So funny💕 and true

  • @plaintiveplainvanilla9729
    @plaintiveplainvanilla9729 Рік тому +134

    Oh, but the monkey bars. Such fun, and they were on plain old dirt. If you fell, you got hurt. The school nurse fixed a lot of boo-boos. Not many ambulance runs, 'cause we mostly walked it off. Ah, good times.

    • @KenzoTan1942
      @KenzoTan1942 Рік тому +11

      We don’t even have a nurse, we get blisters and just got used to them, king of the hill kind of thing.

    • @solaveritas2
      @solaveritas2 Рік тому +9

      Our playground was gravel. Then when you fell you got a nice pebble pattern on our legs and arms, maybe the face also, depending on whether you dropped off the monkey bars or were yeeted off the spinner, or roundabout, whatever you call that thingie that possibly killed more kids on the playgrounds than any other piece of equipment.

    • @jameslipke354
      @jameslipke354 Рік тому +9

      We'd sit up on top of the monkey bars and our teachers NEVER said a word! 🤣
      ~ APRIL LIPKE

    • @kathyhollenbach7413
      @kathyhollenbach7413 Рік тому +6

      ​@@solaveritas2 Oh, so true!! I took my toddler daughter with me to ride on it and the kids had it going so fast I couldn't hold on any longer and we both flew off of it. I was so scared for my daughter but we were both safe. Guardia angel was there for us that day. Never went on that again, not even alone..that
      was too much to handle.

    • @maisies927
      @maisies927 Рік тому +1

      We were told not to come home crying. If you did get hurt and went home crying, we were yelled at. It was our own fault. Which it was. And we would be right back out there playing on it again.

  • @gsdfan8455
    @gsdfan8455 Рік тому +127

    I haven’t laughed that hard in a while. Brilliant set.

  • @johnmckown1267
    @johnmckown1267 Рік тому +244

    We played dodge ball. With slightly deflated balls, which would bend your nose when it hit you at about 300 mph.

    • @777ttaylor
      @777ttaylor Рік тому +9

      Exactly 🤣💥

    • @pamelameckley5040
      @pamelameckley5040 Рік тому +11

      Ohh yeah, good times. Especially when a boy who hit puberty early through one at you at maximum velocity!

    • @coleengoodell7523
      @coleengoodell7523 Рік тому +11

      Dooiingg, the smell and sound of those red balls, unforgettable.

    • @williamhouseholder1558
      @williamhouseholder1558 Рік тому +10

      dodge ball was one of my favorites... revenge!

    • @kathyhollenbach7413
      @kathyhollenbach7413 Рік тому +6

      ​@@williamhouseholder1558 you're a boy, but I was a girl and was terrified....I always got hit

  • @carachapman2776
    @carachapman2776 Рік тому +56

    I remember playing yard darts. We would see how close we could get them to the other kid's feet. I was good, I don't have any scars. 😁 Those things were sharp. And the Mom sayings, I don't want to hear a word when you get hit with one of those. But my favorite is "if you break your leg, don't come running to me" lol I want to be young again

    • @williamhouseholder1558
      @williamhouseholder1558 Рік тому +9

      my great grandmother had yard darts unfortunely they were hidden when we were found playing the wrong way with them lol. Those things were weapons.

    • @carolemascarini2036
      @carolemascarini2036 Рік тому +5

      LOLLLOL

  • @AKHWJ3ST
    @AKHWJ3ST Рік тому +11

    So funny 'cause it's pretty much the truth. Our parents philosophy was " Betcha won't try that again."

  • @ronnahjohnson5013
    @ronnahjohnson5013 Рік тому +11

    Reminds me of Jeff Allen’s skit about his grandchildren going down the slide an inch at a time screaming
    “WEEEE PAPA WEEEE”

  • @carolemascarini2036
    @carolemascarini2036 Рік тому +23

    Roger Radley, Awesome! Hysterically funny! Got to see more of this comedian's videos!😂😜🤣🤪

  • @cassandracleveland
    @cassandracleveland Рік тому +42

    No joke, I had a classmate in 1st grade that went flying off our metal swing set on the playground while trying to go as high as he possibly could. When he landed in the sand he received a compound fracture in his wrist. When we were back in class he called out to the teacher about “the red stuff” getting on his project. She flipped her lid when she noticed it was blood. I remember it like it was yesterday. Poor kid! That playground was the best though! My favorite was the concrete sewage pipes we had for climbing on and through. Talk about HOT in that Arizona heat. 😆

    • @kathyboly19
      @kathyboly19 Місяць тому

      I remember those concrete sewage pipes and went to school in Phoenix!!! We used to sit and talk, kiss, and sneak a cigarette inside those pipes after school. Oh dear, I've said too much! LOL

  • @kzoll3546
    @kzoll3546 Рік тому +103

    Our parents didn't even know where we were. We jumped on our bikes in the morning, came home for lunch, and then in for dinner. Then we go out at dusk and catch fire flies. Of course we stay within shouting distance. Those were the days.

    • @williamhouseholder1558
      @williamhouseholder1558 Рік тому +13

      I grew up near tons of lava rocks in the middle of no where. The neighbor kids and 6 of us would be out all night playing light tag with flash lights. Its amazing the things your do when you dont have ipads and your bored. Their were days where everyone would be covered in welts from crab apple wars lol

    • @seedsoflove7684
      @seedsoflove7684 Рік тому +4

      Dont forget drinking from the water hose. And making mud pies.
      But i do prefer plastic slides to metal. Safer.

    • @munbeam1
      @munbeam1 Рік тому +9

      In our house, we had to stay within my mom's whistle. And that thing could make your ears bleed if you were close when she let it rip. We could hear her whistle over any emergency vehicle sirens.

    • @seedsoflove7684
      @seedsoflove7684 Рік тому +1

      @@munbeam1 good ol days!

    • @deborahsmith6994
      @deborahsmith6994 Рік тому +1

      @@munbeam1 HAHAHAHAHA. "Let it rip" SO funny😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @PleaseNThankYou
    @PleaseNThankYou Рік тому +25

    You didn't mention the steel merry-go-round. What happens to 15 kids at 20 mph, and no railing !! Go ahead, tell THAT story.

  • @dongross6624
    @dongross6624 Рік тому +35

    We used to come home from the town park bruised,scratched,bloody.
    Backs of our legs burned from the slide.
    We would roll down a hill in the trash barrels.
    The good old days!😂
    Connie G.

  • @marinemom9198
    @marinemom9198 Рік тому +21

    Lmao...Merry go rounds....metal and wood! 16' metal slide...16' high swings that were concreated into the ground....yeah good times!!!!

    • @michellebarnhill5130
      @michellebarnhill5130 Рік тому +2

      Steel merry go round...going as fast as all of us could get it going.
      Mama was a boomer baby...used to take wax paper and make the 16 foot slide faster 😅

  • @-rockmusiclover-
    @-rockmusiclover- Рік тому +55

    This dude's hilarious

  • @CarlGorn
    @CarlGorn Рік тому +11

    The trick to making those metal slides slick was to toss a handful of gravel up it before you climbed. The dust would be dry lubricant, made for the fastest ride on the playground.

    • @musiqmike
      @musiqmike Рік тому +1

      Exactly! Or I would sometimes take a handful of it up with me and sprinkle it down first. Made a world of difference in reducing the friction.

    • @kathygreer2097
      @kathygreer2097 Рік тому +3

      We took a small square of waxed paper to the playground. Made it smooooth and shiny!😊

    • @sylviavega-ortiz3006
      @sylviavega-ortiz3006 9 місяців тому +1

      Yes to all above! And then it would rain and there would be a slimy puddle at the end of the slide.

  • @pi-sx3mb
    @pi-sx3mb Рік тому +21

    Yep! 500 degree Fahrenheit slides, monkey bars that would destroy you on the way down if you slipped, the merry-go-rounds that would sling you off into orbit if you didn't puke first, and the one nobody has mentioned yet - the seesaw which would give you a vertebrae fracture when your "friend" jumped off. And don't get me going on suicide missions down the sledding hill in the summer in a homemade go cart made from scrap wood, baby buggy wheels, a piece of rope to "steer" it, all held together by 4 rusty bent nails.

    • @mikeh.7499
      @mikeh.7499 Рік тому +4

      One thousand thumbs up!!!😂.me too.

    • @edwardwicks304
      @edwardwicks304 Рік тому +2

      You just took me back to my childhood days. Great comment. 😅

  • @dcsblessedbees
    @dcsblessedbees Рік тому +7

    😂"Like your working."🤣Yep, more please.👍

  • @LatimusChadimus
    @LatimusChadimus Рік тому +42

    I think he understands that self-esteem doesn't come from others, it comes from your own self so those gold stickers definitely do not to boost your self-esteem the same way achieving a goal does

    • @deborahduthie4519
      @deborahduthie4519 Рік тому +1

      You have that correct. The kids who grew up with ‘trophy, everyone’s a winner years’, have apathy and depression and are glad for nothing to do outside of the house.

  • @MarilynAlmodovar
    @MarilynAlmodovar Рік тому +71

    We used to make sure to gain momentum on the swing, not to go around it, but to jump from the highest point and see who would land the farthest. smh. I still wonder how we never broke bones or wound up in the hospital.

    • @iyaayas
      @iyaayas Рік тому +7

      Surprised he didn't mention this! I lived for this and the slacked swing that occured after I gave up trying to go over the bar

    • @DaisyCloverbee
      @DaisyCloverbee Рік тому +3

      We did that. We called it 'bailing out'.

    • @bvaughns
      @bvaughns Рік тому +3

      Right! These kids can’t manage falling off let alone jumping. I have 3 of them 😅

    • @Pascalore
      @Pascalore Рік тому +1

      When we jumped off the wooden seat swings we knew how to land. Those dumb rubber seats wouldn't let your butt go. And when we used the slide - wax paper - I even gave it to my kids on their first trip to the neighborhood playground. I didn't go with them. They were fine.

    • @Zorbino88
      @Zorbino88 7 місяців тому +1

      I used to jump off the swing for distance records, until one day my pants got caught in the seat itself. Nothing quite like yeeting yourself off of a rubber seat only to have it grab you on the exit and flip your face into the ground!

  • @lindajankowski1081
    @lindajankowski1081 Рік тому +7

    Crushed it, brother Radley!!!!😅🤣😂

  • @BrownEyedGirl1367
    @BrownEyedGirl1367 Рік тому +13

    I can still remember the pain in my arms from Red Rover…and the condemnation of peers if you were the breaking point.

  • @comcastjohn
    @comcastjohn Рік тому +14

    Ahhhh the good’ol days!

  • @terryruggiero1718
    @terryruggiero1718 Рік тому +5

    I grew up in those times,still remember a younger kid losing part of her finger sitting on the middle of the seesaw.

    • @mikeh.7499
      @mikeh.7499 Рік тому +1

      I recall sixth grade guy hanging by feet inside jungle jim...let go and head first into the bare pavement that we all played on and had fun!kid conked his head teacher&..oh. o.k.

  • @EarthSilver
    @EarthSilver Рік тому +15

    I don't remember wanting to swing all the way around. What I wanted was to get the farthest after jumping of at the highest point. I also remember wearing shorts on those metal slides, bad idea but I did it anyway.

  • @Isiltarie
    @Isiltarie Рік тому +11

    Young kids, just know that there is A LOT OF TRUTH in this show. It's ALL TRUE!

  • @babyzorilla
    @babyzorilla Рік тому +16

    Takes me back. We had pop bottle rocket fights . Good times

  • @maisies927
    @maisies927 Рік тому +20

    He's soo funny. I laughed out loud alone. It's funny because it was absolutely true.

  • @michelem8686
    @michelem8686 Рік тому +10

    We learned cause & effect, and consequences of our actions.
    One playground game I never hear about is Crack the Whip. It seemed I was always the poor kid at the end who went flying. 😅

  • @akki942200
    @akki942200 Рік тому +20

    Oh man, the way he describes those details!!!
    Loved your set! Great work! Keep making everybody laugh :D

  • @sandramcarthur1866
    @sandramcarthur1866 Рік тому +14

    Gravel and lava hot metal

  • @audraarndt1824
    @audraarndt1824 Рік тому +15

    Rusted metal and splintery wood.
    Omg the jeans thing 😂😂😂

  • @jayboogie7956
    @jayboogie7956 Рік тому +8

    Oh the memories 🤣🤣

  • @autumn7ful
    @autumn7ful Рік тому +70

    I was born in 1952. My house had the park right behind us with all the swings and the slides and the teeter totter’s in the monkey bars, so I’m totally enjoying your comedy because we had a great childhood not like the kids nowadays.

    • @AKHWJ3ST
      @AKHWJ3ST Рік тому +4

      I remember trying to go down the slide and getting my skirt caught at the very top of the 10 story slide. Had to go home after school and explain to my mother how that happened. Kids back then in the '50s were tough as nails, even the little girls who wore dresses because that's what little girls wore back then. Talk about going down a hot slide, try doing it in a skirt! Nothing between hot metal and tender young skin. We'd throw dirt on the slide to help cool it down and also made it slicker!

    • @katiedrew4708
      @katiedrew4708 Рік тому +1

      autumn7ful Maybe 4th grade I swung up as high as I could, let go and jumped. Landed wrong, fractured my elbow. It was the last day of school!

    • @rayburnyarborough4695
      @rayburnyarborough4695 Рік тому +2

      Dry Bar Comedy is the best!

    • @sandragrant1785
      @sandragrant1785 Рік тому

      I'm 1952 also. I was scared of the playgrounds, only sitting in and twisting in the swings. But I remember them fondly.

    • @tomklebine720
      @tomklebine720 Рік тому +1

      Do you remember wax paper on the metal slides?

  • @nintendo_oui
    @nintendo_oui Рік тому +18

    Very funny! I'm pretty sure I remember people running around and shocking kids after going down the plastic slides during my elementary school recess. There's a big build up of static electricity after you slide down one of those. And monkey bars and things to climb on do help kids learn to balance. Learning to fall correctly should be included in physical education.

  • @PhantomFilmAustralia
    @PhantomFilmAustralia Рік тому +3

    GENERATION X: *_"We've all been there!" Yep! We were tough kids!_*

  • @deejohnson827
    @deejohnson827 Рік тому +33

    This guy hit it on the head! Great routine!

  • @jameslipke354
    @jameslipke354 Рік тому +9

    Ah, yes. Dodge Ball...the game where if you didn't want to get hammered by the ball, you just learned to run faster! 🤣 We used to dare each other on the swing set to see who could swing the highest AND jump from the seat at its highest point. Our teachers NEVER once told us to stop and NO ONE DIED! We'd get that Merry Go Round as fast as we could get it to spin. No one flew off. I went to a rural school so our equipment was on dirt. We played TAG aka Touch And Go too. We played flag football with a skosh of tackle involved. Sadly, Dodge Ball and TAG have been determined as too violent to play and there are no more Merry Go Rounds because they too are considered dangerous. It's beyond ridiculous! We used to swing out of the hayloft and in mid-air hope we weren't going to overshoot that big hay pile. I know I did several times. We used to swing on a rope and land in the river. Let kids be kids.
    My Grandma and Mom both used to tell overprotective Moms, "They bend before they break. Stop hovering." 😁
    ~ APRIL LIPKE

    • @raymondschneider5217
      @raymondschneider5217 Рік тому +1

      Country school kid, too. Our playground was on dirt, too; swing feet were cemented into the gro9und. Slide was steel; abt 12 feet high. Yeah, good ol' days, huh?
      Y'all Be safe!

    • @davidmihevc3990
      @davidmihevc3990 11 місяців тому

      Holy crap! This brings back so many memories.
      Yep, we had all that stuff too, mostly all on pavement though.
      Lots of steel. We had an awesome merry go round. We would takes turns pushing or riding. We would get that thing spinning so fast, you could hang off the sides horizontally. I'm totally serious. I remember a couple times kids losing their grip and flying off, but they would be right back to do it again. Man, those were great times. I went back to the school years later and sadly , all that stuff was gone.

  • @ChildlessCatLady81
    @ChildlessCatLady81 Рік тому +23

    Everytime I hear stories about the metal slide of death I swear I can feel the experiences as if I was just on one of those things. I am so glad I am a younger Gen Xer who got to experience the more fun and dangerous playground equipment. 😆

    • @seedsoflove7684
      @seedsoflove7684 Рік тому +2

      Metal slides are a nightmare. Plastic is better. But those days of biking alone were amazing.

  • @kittensugars
    @kittensugars Рік тому +13

    The metal slides were SO tall....

  • @martas701
    @martas701 Рік тому +11

    It’s interesting that I still experienced that as a millennial but in Moldova, former part of USSR. It was 1994-2000 and we still had metal slides, wooden and metal playground structures and climbed water pipes. Boys climbed garages because they were usually a separate structure- like a row of garages completely separated from buildings

  • @randylaytonorangeboy
    @randylaytonorangeboy Рік тому +9

    We had a plastic slide and they can be dangerous too. Don't grab onto the under side of the slide or you will slice your hand open. If you are heavy it will bow and collapse in the middle. And if there was a chip in the slide and a piece of that was sticking out that would snag your shirt and would be nearly choked to death. And electric shock just by touching it.

  • @alterecho9122
    @alterecho9122 Рік тому +8

    This guy is amazing I’m dying😂😂😂

  • @barbarawitt2077
    @barbarawitt2077 Рік тому +10

    Thinking I just found my new favorite comedian...memories...

  • @sandramcarthur1866
    @sandramcarthur1866 Рік тому +11

    More like gravel

  • @claudialsmith2996
    @claudialsmith2996 Рік тому +9

    Burned my butt sliding down.😅100 degrees.😢no more😮😊

    • @africanchild4525
      @africanchild4525 Рік тому +1

      I used to slide on a rock behind our house. The butt got bruised but because we had no slides at home we continued to do it because it was fun.

  • @coleengoodell7523
    @coleengoodell7523 Рік тому +10

    You never see kids climbing trees anymore or a kid just sitting in one after climbing it to the best sitting in the tree spot.

  • @moonsting
    @moonsting Рік тому +3

    Roger Radley you're so descriptive in the funniest way 🤣 👏👏👏

  • @swcheshier61
    @swcheshier61 Рік тому +11

    Thanks! Great stuff! I grew up that way too. You brought back painful but good memories. Lol

  • @funniful
    @funniful Рік тому +14

    I laughed hard at this one!!

  • @brendad.c114
    @brendad.c114 Рік тому +8

    this is so true . my sister was on a swing in the 80s and she swung so high , she flew like superman off the swing . but she was fine . probably a bit of scratch and that was abt it . the good thing was the playground was filled with grass.

  • @debras8683
    @debras8683 4 місяці тому

    This was GREAT and what memories! Born in the 1950s I grew up playing on all these things that could burn you, rip your skin off, break your bones or knock your teeth out. Good times! And because we weren’t content with just that we had a brook and an enormous culvert behind our house in “the woods” where you could go rafting into it in warm weather or sledding into it when the brook froze. You could go miles through that culvert and end up a town away and fall through the ice if it wasn’t solid enough. It’s fun and adventures todays kids will never have, so sad

  • @sooziebarren8840
    @sooziebarren8840 Рік тому +9

    I had that metal slide attached to my swing set back in the 60's lol. This guys hysterical 😂

  • @kathyhollenbach7413
    @kathyhollenbach7413 Рік тому +6

    Excellent, lol, Excellent! When the metal sliding board wasn't sliding all you had to do was take wax paper out with you and start buffing up that metal and you were speed racing to the bottom again!!

  • @hazelsmith1716
    @hazelsmith1716 Рік тому +2

    We had the flying gate & the flying swing. Dangerous & so fun. Split my lower lip open (bit it falling)on the metal monkey bars, 4 stitches. Still wear that scar with pride!! Use to ride the rollers (were the milk cans came down) at the local creamery on the weekend!!!

  • @PleaseNThankYou
    @PleaseNThankYou Рік тому +9

    I think that last joke touched the young man in the audience. Looks like he got a painful visual. Looks like he can keep it to himself. Good kid.

  • @ms.mustlovecats1556
    @ms.mustlovecats1556 Рік тому +2

    I remember swinging on the " swing set " and when I swung backward, I also leaned forward while in the swing.
    I don't need to tell you . . . . . . . . . I fell out of the swing, *right on my face ! ! ! ! !* . 😒🙄

  • @autumn7ful
    @autumn7ful Рік тому +5

    My sister, my older sister, literally did fall swinging so high that she went right over and around fell onto the gravel had to be taken to the hospital. We weren’t sucky Poohs, like the kids are treated nowadays.

  • @dlight9849
    @dlight9849 Рік тому +6

    Yup. Growing up in the 70s and 80s it was all burning hot metal monkey bars and slides, and swings all on asphalt 🤣

  • @Emmanuel_Rivera1
    @Emmanuel_Rivera1 Рік тому +1

    Those really were the good days of life 😂 6:25

  • @bobperrine6193
    @bobperrine6193 Рік тому +7

    So true, hot metal and asphalt. Those were the days.

  • @shellyannhan8279
    @shellyannhan8279 9 місяців тому +1

    Hes hilarious. Took me right back to my childhood of metal monkey bars and metal rocket monkey bars. We did have fun though. 😂😂😂😂

  • @belaayya5094
    @belaayya5094 Рік тому +5

    Hot metal that scalded my legs on the way down...doing flying leaps off from swings onto asphalt so hot it was melting in the 103 degree Lis Angeles sun...playing chicken on the monkey bars while you ripped the callouses off your hands or someone split their head on the asphalt. And someone to go running to the office for the nurse because we had no adult supervision. Good times.

  • @kauffrau6764
    @kauffrau6764 Рік тому +7

    Non stop laughing! Love this guy - great set.

  • @agnesstokes1078
    @agnesstokes1078 Рік тому +11

    We rode bikes down the rode knowing a barbed wire fence was. Great fun😂😂😂😂

    • @blueeyes3
      @blueeyes3 Рік тому +3

      True, good old days, was watching the ignoramace (spelling intentional) boys pee on electric fences. 😅😂
      Country towns!

    • @PleaseNThankYou
      @PleaseNThankYou Рік тому +4

      I did that on a Shetland pony. I didn't know about the barbed wire... but he did. Luckily, the chicken feathers had piled up so high behind the coop that when he threw me off, it covered most of the barbs.

    • @majoroldladyakamom6948
      @majoroldladyakamom6948 Рік тому +4

      Rode down the road... ⚘️

  • @wolfmobile3693
    @wolfmobile3693 Рік тому +6

    I experienced those steel monkey bars and slides that were as hot as a frying pan! Good times!!!

  • @michellebarnhill5130
    @michellebarnhill5130 Рік тому +4

    Cold hard steel on asphalt! 2nd day of third grade, I was doing cherrypickers, lost my grip and landed on my forehead...5 stitches.
    I learned never to do that again!😊

    • @pamelameckley5040
      @pamelameckley5040 Рік тому +3

      At recess, watched the kid go down the metal slide but not down the slide part... Straight down to the ground.. the concrete. Knocked him out, the rest of us surrounded him, thinking he was dead. Good times. 😖😵😬

  • @klaatupensacola8996
    @klaatupensacola8996 Рік тому +4

    Great routine. Grew up in 70s and 80s with metal slides, monkey bars, swings with big chains and flimsy plastic seats. Riding bikes all day, getting lost in the woods, building tree houses with nails and splintery wood. We had awesome neighborhoods growing up with lots of kids around. And we used to traverse the busy streets end of school year to the local zoo and park for a picnic and to ride bumper cars and other who-knows-how-long-ago-inspected rides.

  • @kittyhawk8775
    @kittyhawk8775 Рік тому +3

    Hilarious! (Also, Nice to see a gentleman, my age, who hasn't let himself go...)

  • @maripartridge4168
    @maripartridge4168 Рік тому +1

    I hear you, man. When I was in 2nd grade in the 60s, we had this tall metal slide that would burn the hide off of you. The whole thing was metal. You had to climb to the very top, and once you got there. There were these bars all around it. When you got up to the slide, you had to bend down to go down it. I came up a little too far and hit the middle of my head. It hurt so bad. I came on down the slide and told the other kids I was with what I had done.
    They were like put your hand on your head and lean against the slide. So I did, until I saw all this blood pouring out of my head. One of the teachers brought me into the bathroom and cleaned it up, and called my mom.
    I still have a scare in the middle of my head. Everything was metal and in the Texas sun. It was all hot.

  • @curetiamhices289
    @curetiamhices289 Рік тому +3

    We would take pieces of waxed paper with us to the park, sit on them and go down the slide to make it slick. Then sit back and watch other kids go rocketing down and skid along the dirt at the bottom.

  • @johnnycole7990
    @johnnycole7990 Рік тому +1

    Nailed it!!!

  • @Phantom.1
    @Phantom.1 Рік тому

    Our equipment was metal on hard dirt! Yeah baby!

  • @yahwehisdead
    @yahwehisdead Рік тому +3

    How old is this guy? Cuz I keep forgetting how old I am, 35. He's definitely noticeably older than me but I can't tell how much. I'm old enough where I still know what he means but it wasn't every playground. If it was in a more well to do neighborhood then there was a good chance it was updated, but if not then yes just what he said.

  • @redneckhippy2020
    @redneckhippy2020 10 місяців тому

    Ah, the old 'monkey bar fights' at the town 'jungle gym'. Tether ball. Aluminum geometric domes. Oh, and the classic 'merry go round' of doom. We could walk ourselves to school...in kindergarten.

  • @oldmanfunky4909
    @oldmanfunky4909 Рік тому +7

    This is so accurate!

  • @thebazile5253
    @thebazile5253 Рік тому +3

    Even though I was born in '99, I lived in rural Kansas with a park that was built in like the 50's or 60's right across the street from my house. And I had 8 siblings so there was all types of tomfoolery going on. There was a jungle gym completely made from metal that idk how many times I bumped my head on. And the metal slide was the best to go down in the rain because you did get shot like a rocket.

  • @cestusfr
    @cestusfr Рік тому +2

  • @lmb1962
    @lmb1962 Рік тому +3

    Born in 1962, I am so familiar with the metal playground. Our metal slide worked really well. It also had a hump in the middle so that when you hit it just right, your butt didn't touch the slide for a fraction of a second. 😂❤

  • @DJinOcalaFla
    @DJinOcalaFla Рік тому

    Remember using wax paper to rocket down the slide?? Those were the days. LOL

  • @johnmckown1267
    @johnmckown1267 Рік тому +6

    Sue my parents because I was born smart instead of handsome!

  • @blast2686
    @blast2686 Рік тому +4

    Need the entire special 😂😂

  • @KimiW
    @KimiW Рік тому +1

    HILARIOUS!!!

  • @MissV2024
    @MissV2024 Рік тому +4

    “Stupid should hurt.”

  • @MamaTtoB-P
    @MamaTtoB-P Рік тому +2

    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 '& you never saw that brother again' so hilarious

  • @christopherbic7688
    @christopherbic7688 Рік тому +2

    3:50 swing all the way around.
    I was that kid?
    Weren't you?
    Get over and around.
    The slack left me guessing.
    So I sometimes had to jump.
    In the dirt.
    Great times.

  • @teresamathews3192
    @teresamathews3192 Рік тому +2

    We used to get strawberries on our legs and butt from the hot slides. Also the merry go rounds where we would hang off with our heads down, lol. We survived!!! Parents were hanging out socializing and smoking, they only bothered with us when we came crying. The good ole days for sure.

  • @emperorpublishing9322
    @emperorpublishing9322 Рік тому

    And don’t forget the merry go round of death🤣🤣

  • @hollynoel1564
    @hollynoel1564 6 місяців тому

    Hysterical!

  • @lj6152
    @lj6152 Рік тому +2

    Too funny. I was one of those kids that tried defying gravity on the swings, I however had a good grip but it was a jolt when the swing came down to a quick stop....and yes it was logging chain bolted to a plank.

  • @margaretgarana911
    @margaretgarana911 Рік тому +5

    Red Rover

  • @sheram5949
    @sheram5949 Рік тому +2

    You forgot one important thing. On the slides we would take waxed paper and go over it with that. Boy did it really slide after you waxed it. Thanks for the memories.

  • @FoxBD
    @FoxBD Рік тому

    I use to sit on a towel to slide down, idea from sliding down Discovery-Zone. I loved the multifloor sliding down in a sack but i would feel the ridges where the tube connected each other. Ouch.

  • @anhpam9205
    @anhpam9205 Рік тому +2

    Very funny and delightful to watch. Those were the days.What a handsome,stunning looking man!

  • @doughaven-rf8id
    @doughaven-rf8id Рік тому +2

    Exactly how it was in the 60's. Our playground anthem would have been "Another One Bites the Dust"

  • @Camthur1
    @Camthur1 Рік тому

    Don't forget that one doohickey that nobody knew what it did. It used to do something but it broke well before you came along. Maybe it used to spin or do some other fun thing. Not any more. Now you make your own fun on it. I remember when I was a kid, there was this round ride thing that you could sit on. At one point, It would apparently spin around by working a couple of metal bars at a some of the seats. Did those metal bars do anything when I was a kid? Nah, it was broken. All it did was give you arm exercises and squeak. If you wanted to spin, somebody had to run around and around the thing pushing it. What was under it? Nice and cushiony gravel with a ring of brick to keep the gravel in.

  • @jasonswearingin1009
    @jasonswearingin1009 Рік тому +2

    Who remembers the metal spinning wheel of death dismemberment tetanus and 2nd degree burns aka the merry-go-round?

  • @singingway
    @singingway Рік тому +1

    Remember tether ball? Somebody's bad idea.

  • @VeganWellnessTribe
    @VeganWellnessTribe Рік тому +6

    I love a good joke. As I listen to this I can’t help but think how this brand of joke is a product of a generation faced with a lot of change, and feeling emboldened by what they lived through. It seems to me, the reaction that would make more sense is to consider how things have improved. We don’t have it quite as hard as we did, in all the ways we used to. There are challenges unique to each generation. I’m glad the generation after me will have had some notable improvements to safety and overall quality of life.

  • @tamarascherette4946
    @tamarascherette4946 Рік тому

    Slides so hot a burger could fry on it. Just try not to scorch your hiney! Never mind that the thing was as tall as The Mare of Steel from the movie The Long Ships! Fun times...

  • @spiritchaser9826
    @spiritchaser9826 Рік тому

    Thanks!