No snowflakes in this bunch of kids.

[dixiegrrrrl]

Anyone here remember playing on contraptions like this?

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[Floyd R. Turbo]

1. Over a ground covered with jagged rocks and broken glass!

Where’s the fun with no threat of substantial bodily harm!

[Glamrock]

3. Hahahaha

You beat me to it! Proud Gen X'er! No shredded tires for us! You can play on concrete you little shits! And broken glass! You'll learn dexterity or stitches!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

11. Whipper Snapper!

[Glamrock]

12. Not feeling so whipper snapperish at 46!

I bend over and noises come out!

[ret5hd]

2. A modern version: Adventure playgrounds

https://www.fastcompany.com/3058197/at-this-new-nyc-playground-kids-will-be-free-to-do-almost-anything-they-want

[Phentex]

4. When my kids were little I took them to an older park...

and off to one side, it still had a couple of swings and a slide. The slide was tall and really narrow with very short sides. It's a wonder someone didn't fall off and die.

Shortly after our visit, they built a new modern playground with all the plastic stuff. The swings from the old playground were removed but the slide stayed a while longer.

[TexasProgresive]

5. Those slides were great.

We used to sit on waxed paper to go faster. They were a bit uncomfortable when it was very hot or cold. Swings with wooden seats were ever more comfortable than the safety flexible ones, plus you could slide off at the top of the arc to fly. I guess they caused a few concussions and fractured skulls, but they were so much fun.

At my school they had a thing like a maypole that used chains around a central pole. The chains were all locked together with padlocks so I guess someone got hurt. It looked like the users could run in a circle fast enough to get lifted off the ground. That'd been fun and dangerous.

[Phentex]

7. Remember how your teeth would clatter together

as you hit the ground when someone jumped off one end of the old wooden seesaw?

Good times.

[TexasProgresive]

8. Anyone who did that ended up shunned on our playground

That hurts.

[Glamrock]

13. Ewwwwwwww!

I remember that!

[MFM008]

6. Yes

Might as well have played on a skyscraper construction
Site........

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. All of my elementary schools had shorter versions of this.

They were neat, we had access to them during the summer.
I cannot remember kids getting hurt ever.
I came from the early boomer generation where houses were very small, less than 1500 sq. feet on average, bedrooms were small, and it was common to send the kids outside to play all the time. Wasn't until the 1060's and tv that kids sat around the house a lot.

The stuff and things we got into while roaming the outdoors gives me the shudders now. Simply don't understand how we escaped any serious injury or falls.
I think we grew up less fearful, and bolder than kids a decade later.

[lame54]

10. Is that Al Qaeda?

[TheSmarterDog]

14. We played on steel pipes when we were kids.

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. At several points of my ages 7 to 10 years

my brother and I would think nothing of climbing Douglas firs as high as could go before the tree top bent.
easily 100 feet up.
Never once felt fear. But we did not talk about it when we went home, either, another form of survival.

[Archae]

19. We played on "monkey bars" like that one...

Reminded me of a space capsule.

Saw one boy try jumping off the top, was "intercepted" by a bar on the way down, you got it.
He probably still sings soprano.

[Wolf Frankula]

16. Remember Monkey Bars?

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I played on them as a kid.

Wolf

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. Yep.

I remember feeling frustrated 'cause we had to wear dresses or skits at school, not pants...ahem..."pedal pushers" and were discouraged from using the bars.."boys might be looking up your dress"
As if any kid under 12 cared.

[Blue_Adept]

18. oh for fucks sake

They shouldn't be playing, they should be working in the factory!

[Iggo]

20. I remember a time when I was fearless.

I don't remember what that felt like, though.

[dixiegrrrrl]

21. I miss that feeling.

We had every confidence we could change the world, and we did. We got a criminal out of the WH and an end to a war,
The students today are showing same determination, and I know we all are applauding them.