Back when “only the strong survives” applied to playgrounds.
Also when slides and monkey bars were 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. You had to be tough as shit to play.
Hell yeah, those were the days. I went chin first down the metal ladder on one of those slides when I slipped. My grandfather told me to wipe the blood on my shirt and get back up there.
Gen X raised by Silent Gen grandparents and absentee Boomer parents - we’re resilient. Like cockroaches.
Yeah. Ín the Eastern Block we literally had polished concrete slides with metal ladders. Metal poles and monkey bars. Sandpits with concrete sides. Swings with barely painted rusty chains and metal rails around them. No grass just gravel everywhere.
It's not concrete concrete but that mixed artificial stone stuff they make stairs out of. How do you call it in english? That keeps a polished surface a little bit better, but by not too much.
Imagine playing soccer on a concrete pitch which has a rebar iron fence around it and full metal goals. My parents always warned me to not do pullups on those because they were not secured to the ground at all and little kids died because of them. The late '80s and the '90s were literal "if he dies he dies" decades. Almost all of my fellow kids had broken bones and concussions on the regular and still we were allowed to play outside without parental supervision at the ripe age of 7-8 as long as we came home in time for dinner. I once fell under a parked car with my Czechoslovakian BMX bike and smashed my head open and had to have stitches. The commie block I lived in had a grumpy communal dog in the parking lot which bit all our asses daily. It had it's rabies shots so no biggie just some crying kids running around with a barking dog chasing them. Those were the days.
Here in the US, my friend wiped out on his bike after riding down the steep hill on our street. I remember watching the back of his head bounce repeatedly off the asphalt as he slid down the street. Also, took all of the skin off his elbow - it was raw meat, basically.
His mother stuck a bunch of bandaids together to make a large bandaid for his elbow. Then send him back outside.
No doctor, no checking for a concussion, just cover the bloody spot to keep the fluid inside the body. Mostly.
Now they call Child Protection on you if you let your 10 year old kid go to school alone or play alone outside. When we were 10 we took my grandma's dachshunds for a long ass walk through the village, up the hills, through the woods and then we came home for dinner when the church bell striked 6pm.
Everyone talks about the heat on those stainless steel slides, but I'll never forget the smell they had on particularly hot days. Combined with the musty, creosote smell of the wooden playground equipment...heaven
The scene from terminator, where everyone is incinerated near the chain link fence.
I was watching the movie one time and I thought-for all the days I left burnt skin on a bajillion degree metal slide, monkey bar or spinney wheel of death, I think some of us would just end up as ghouls because that blast wouldn’t be as bad as it seems. lol
In Germany you find a lot of people from my generation that's will get it. *Die Dino's* was very big here. In German he says *Ich glaube wir brauchen einen neuen Timmy*.I miss this show😞
In Mexico too. Baby Sinclair was a phenomenon. You could see many shows at birthday parties where people dressed up and came out singing some songs from the series.
The truth was very strange.
Drinking from hoses is fine. Megadoses of neurotoxins, endocrine disrupters, and lead and other heavy metals never hurt anyone, and give the taste of hose water that special je ne sais quoi.
An important part of ol playgrounds was "teaching risk assessment."
I feel this is an excellent tool for that by teaching kids to stay the fuck off this thing.
As gross as this sounds … we sneaked out with butter and greased the slide so that we could go down the thing faster.
The local Mothers started getting suspicious, what with their disappearing butter and their kids coming home stinking of the stuff.
We finally all got grounded that day Kenneth Colquhoun broke the sound barrier coming down the slide, suffering concussion as he slip slided his way over the sand trap and onto the playground concrete.
Our buttery Summer days were over.
We used to steal our parents ski wax (Canadian obviously) and do the bottoms of our gt racer sleds with them. Had a cousin jump a busy highway off at 9 years old doing easily over 100 km/h. We got called in and granny took several hot kettles to our sleds. Wasn’t worth it after that lol
Dumbassery children used to invent... Coincidentally we had a Kenneth that got labeled cry baby Kenny. The kids built a dirt ramp for more excitement and entertainment and Kenny was convinced into going first. There was a tree very close and though the trunk and roots were never in the way it had not occured to anyone that a lower branch would be problematic. Kenny speedily targeted the ramp and reached lift off hitting his head on the branch and crashed... The crying commenced and did not stop as Kenney shakily walked his bike away and went home. The end, no one else jumped that ramp.
I grew up on American Air Force Bases all over the world in the 90’s. A lot of them had these old play grounds from the 70’s still. It was a trip. you’d come across the weirdest shit on base housing.
We had one of these at the local lake. Saw a girl fall from the top and break her arm. Lucky that's all she broke.
Wasn't at all unusual to see 50 kids in line, 15 or so on the ladder itself, ranging in age from 5 to early teens.
On a real sunny day your ass was burning by the time you got to the bottom so we used to run a bucket brigade to keep the slide slick and cool.
Good times.
while i know that kids are dumb and and can fall anywhere theres still a small part of me that thinks that if you somehow manage to fall off a straight slide you probably weren't going to last long in life
If the internet had been around at that time, we would have seen reports of many deaths and injuries. As it was, if little Jimmy dies falling off a slide in a tiny Alabama town, no one would ever hear of it.
Had something like this at my school as a kid (I'm old) and it was awesome. Except it was surrounded by asphalt. I think we had a teacher keeping an eye on everyone though so there weren't a lot of incidents. There was always that one kid tho.
In '85 (I was 4), I fell of a slide like this at a park and smashed the back of my head on an metal bar. Apparently, I was out for days.
All I remember is that after I woke up, I got all the Mac and cheese I wanted.
Edit- changed iron to metal, I can't be sure it was iron. I was 4 and my parents refuse to talk about The Incident.
Here I am over 40 years old and just now realizing why all the big slides on playgrounds are tubes. It’s so kids don’t go flying off in all directions.
My elementary school had one and you could see the roof of the school from the top. It was awesome. One day a kid fell or jumped off and broke their leg. Good times. This was in the mid and late 90’s.
This is what my first tall side experience felt like in kindergarten. Yes I remember that first time I left the small wide slide and climbed the tall thin slide. They were both made of metal so got really warm on hot days but felt nice.
See we already know you’re not Gen X you must be younger you call this “dangerous”.I think Gen X is the last generation that knows children bounce. They’re like silly putty.wait you don’t even know what that is. They’re like… oh never mind you wouldn’t understand even if you fell off you’re not gonna die!!! 😜
As a kid, yeah. I was an 82 kid in an urban burb that basically doesn’t exist anymore. We did so much crazy shit I honestly can’t believe I’m alive and have all my limbs. But I do have scars! On my head, my shin, and my hand!
Yep. We used to ride in the back of the station wagon, window down, no seatbelts. Rode bikes with no helmets. Climbed trees. Lit fires. Jumped on trampolines with no protective fencing around them. Somehow lived through it all. Pretty amazing, huh?
You would think that slide was fake, but I've seen photos of play equipment from the 50's that was just as outrageous. At least it was over grass and not dirt and rocks.
I lived. I also tore the bottom out of some pants, burned the crap out of the back of my thighs and once I broke my leg. Good times, it was a sad day when they took the slide and the merry go round.
My elementary school had one like this only rows of slides down the side of the hill next to the yard. Huge fiberglass double woop and like 12 wide and zero supervision for recess.
Lemme tell ya, in my youth (80s) there was a neighborhood park with a slide that no doubt in my mind was at least 50 feet tall. Screeching hot metal on your legs and ass when you went down.
I did try a slide almost this high. About halfway down there was a joint that snagged my shorts and slowed my descent so that the hot slide burned my bare legs. Never tried it again. 🔥 ouch
We had one about half this height at my school and at our local park in the 80s. This is in New Mexico and they would both get hot enough in the summer to leave blisters if you made skin to metal contact. The ladders were much sketchier too. They took them down when some kid fell off and broke his arm and collar bone. The playground stuff at the school was then changed to this stuff made of round wooden beams that would stick you with "splinters" as big as a #2 pencil.
Even safe slides can be made dangerous due to stupidity, [Slide clogging incident](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-06-03-mn-65160-story.html) as an example
We had [Witches Hats](https://www.flickr.com/photos/opobs/15609048238) in playgrounds up & down the country. Caused many an injury everywhere til they were banned & scrapped. We used to climb right up them and grip the bars at the top-get them spinning fast af.
You could get your legs flying out behind you if you had the right people on the ground. The brave & foolish used to let go and try to parachute roll. I did hear some kids died on em and that’s why they were banned but I reckon it’s urban myth bollocks.
There was one like this at a campground in Indiana that my family used to go to. Rocky Fork or something like that? You had a use a blanket or piece of carpet to ride down it. I tried to grab the side one time to slide down and got a giant blister on my hand, lol.
Edit: Rocky Fork campground is in Hillsboro, Oh - the opposite direction I was thinking. Either I'm misremembering the name of the park, or I was kid that was completely lost, directionally-speaking.
I have slid down many of those in my day they were hot 🔥 af and you'd catch at almost every seam they were actually hilarious bcuz you knew at some point someone would shortless at the end of day and those stories are priceless my friends the world is "NOTHING" Like it was then them are are also priceless
Nah! Doesn’t seem sunny and hot enough to get that “my skin is on fire feeling” oh and got to throw that hand full of sand down first to get that extra speed
It was a different time. I remember breaking my forearm, it looked like a boomerang, so I walked around a little bit showing it off to the other kids. Then it started hurting so I went home.
Back when “only the strong survives” applied to playgrounds. Also when slides and monkey bars were 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. You had to be tough as shit to play.
Hell yeah, those were the days. I went chin first down the metal ladder on one of those slides when I slipped. My grandfather told me to wipe the blood on my shirt and get back up there. Gen X raised by Silent Gen grandparents and absentee Boomer parents - we’re resilient. Like cockroaches.
Can confirm. I crawl around at night looking for snacks.
But will you're genes survive nuclear Armageddon due to your countless offspring?
You are genes!
A fellow nightcrawlers enjoyer, I see.
I also scatter when the lights come on. Lol
and pooping on the counters.
Yes, that’s not pepper in the potato salad.
lol. That's not potatoes on the counter.
''That is no moon..''
Yeah. Ín the Eastern Block we literally had polished concrete slides with metal ladders. Metal poles and monkey bars. Sandpits with concrete sides. Swings with barely painted rusty chains and metal rails around them. No grass just gravel everywhere.
Yes, absolutely, it was a lot tougher there. Does a polished concrete slide even, you know, slide?
It worked fine after the initial blisters on your ass and back popped and lubricated things a bit.
It's not concrete concrete but that mixed artificial stone stuff they make stairs out of. How do you call it in english? That keeps a polished surface a little bit better, but by not too much.
Damn, I can imagine a wet concrete slide and a few concussions.
Imagine playing soccer on a concrete pitch which has a rebar iron fence around it and full metal goals. My parents always warned me to not do pullups on those because they were not secured to the ground at all and little kids died because of them. The late '80s and the '90s were literal "if he dies he dies" decades. Almost all of my fellow kids had broken bones and concussions on the regular and still we were allowed to play outside without parental supervision at the ripe age of 7-8 as long as we came home in time for dinner. I once fell under a parked car with my Czechoslovakian BMX bike and smashed my head open and had to have stitches. The commie block I lived in had a grumpy communal dog in the parking lot which bit all our asses daily. It had it's rabies shots so no biggie just some crying kids running around with a barking dog chasing them. Those were the days.
Sheesh, that’s crazy. We have goals like that now, but they’re destined to the point that you have to try pretty hard to tip them forward.
Here in the US, my friend wiped out on his bike after riding down the steep hill on our street. I remember watching the back of his head bounce repeatedly off the asphalt as he slid down the street. Also, took all of the skin off his elbow - it was raw meat, basically. His mother stuck a bunch of bandaids together to make a large bandaid for his elbow. Then send him back outside. No doctor, no checking for a concussion, just cover the bloody spot to keep the fluid inside the body. Mostly.
Now they call Child Protection on you if you let your 10 year old kid go to school alone or play alone outside. When we were 10 we took my grandma's dachshunds for a long ass walk through the village, up the hills, through the woods and then we came home for dinner when the church bell striked 6pm.
May we live long and prosper 😂
Now if they join a company that offers “free coffee” they order 30 of them by 5pm, daily.
Everyone talks about the heat on those stainless steel slides, but I'll never forget the smell they had on particularly hot days. Combined with the musty, creosote smell of the wooden playground equipment...heaven
we used little mats to sit on and slide down,saved burning our bums on hot days.
We couldn’t afford mats but I think I know where my scars came from now…🤡
The half dome monkey bars were my favorite. Though I know kids that broke their arms on those.
The scene from terminator, where everyone is incinerated near the chain link fence. I was watching the movie one time and I thought-for all the days I left burnt skin on a bajillion degree metal slide, monkey bar or spinney wheel of death, I think some of us would just end up as ghouls because that blast wouldn’t be as bad as it seems. lol
Right, we kept going back for more while starting to look like a half melted Terminator. lol
I may only be a 2006 child, but I too have felt the wrath of the sun upon my asscheeks through my cargo jorts via those metal slides
Some slides can get just brutally hot where it was more of a dare to go down at that point.
Yup. Todays playgrounds doesnt weed out the weaklings at all
Yeah it sucks. Now we're back to thinning the herd by hand again.. *Humms 'pumped up kicks' while loading AR-15 mags.*
If you cant take a couple of bullets from an AR-15 are you really fit for society?
Right? Back in my day you took a .308 to the dome, uphill, both ways in the snow with no shoes on the way to school, smiled and asked for seconds!
Back when "onky the strong survive" wasn't just an euphemism. Fail, and you die.
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You say dangerous I say let little Timmy break his neck how else is he going to toughen up lol
https://i.redd.it/0qdqbsas895d1.gif
I still say this and no one outside of my family gets it.
In Germany you find a lot of people from my generation that's will get it. *Die Dino's* was very big here. In German he says *Ich glaube wir brauchen einen neuen Timmy*.I miss this show😞
In Mexico too. Baby Sinclair was a phenomenon. You could see many shows at birthday parties where people dressed up and came out singing some songs from the series. The truth was very strange.
I high five you in solidarity.
What is this from?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaurs_(TV_series)
And refresh by drinking from a garden hose
Where you not supposed to do that, because I did alot as a kid lol
I thought everyone did it.
Drinking from hoses is fine. Megadoses of neurotoxins, endocrine disrupters, and lead and other heavy metals never hurt anyone, and give the taste of hose water that special je ne sais quoi.
And let’s not forget the first blast that came out like a hot cup of tea from baking in the sun all day. Ehh
When you say it like that, it makes more sense why it was so good.
Nothing better.
"SUPPLIES!"
"MURDER HOLES!" (...idk, if we're referencing the same thing. You'll know, if we do.)
Did this OFTEN as a kid
Anyone's garden hose, every garden hose in the neighborhood was communal, as long as you turn it off when you're done.
An important part of ol playgrounds was "teaching risk assessment." I feel this is an excellent tool for that by teaching kids to stay the fuck off this thing.
Yes, but only early in the morning or an hour after the sun goes down; never during noon Those who know, know
Gotta run it for a while first!
Yeah, you had to with those old, gravity-fed models
As gross as this sounds … we sneaked out with butter and greased the slide so that we could go down the thing faster. The local Mothers started getting suspicious, what with their disappearing butter and their kids coming home stinking of the stuff. We finally all got grounded that day Kenneth Colquhoun broke the sound barrier coming down the slide, suffering concussion as he slip slided his way over the sand trap and onto the playground concrete. Our buttery Summer days were over.
We used to steal our parents ski wax (Canadian obviously) and do the bottoms of our gt racer sleds with them. Had a cousin jump a busy highway off at 9 years old doing easily over 100 km/h. We got called in and granny took several hot kettles to our sleds. Wasn’t worth it after that lol
I'm confused.... what did the hot kettles do? Did it melt the wax coating off?
Yes… they probably meant hot water
Hot kettles probably meant several hot kettles full of water. Just like how people say "x buckets of water" and similar.
You could say Kenneth was put in a sticky situation…oh and a concussion.
Dumbassery children used to invent... Coincidentally we had a Kenneth that got labeled cry baby Kenny. The kids built a dirt ramp for more excitement and entertainment and Kenny was convinced into going first. There was a tree very close and though the trunk and roots were never in the way it had not occured to anyone that a lower branch would be problematic. Kenny speedily targeted the ramp and reached lift off hitting his head on the branch and crashed... The crying commenced and did not stop as Kenney shakily walked his bike away and went home. The end, no one else jumped that ramp.
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I think it's real. Awesome and disgusting.
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Settle down.
Are you sure it wasn't Parkay margerine
Yes, and on a skateboard lol
That might help. It looks pretty shallow so it would be really slow unless you run a hose up it to make it a water slide.
that was the first thing i was thinking too
Ahhhh yes I remember the 3rd degree burns on these babies
Yeah seems legit......but you go first
Rock paper scissors? 🪨 📄 ✂️
I grew up on American Air Force Bases all over the world in the 90’s. A lot of them had these old play grounds from the 70’s still. It was a trip. you’d come across the weirdest shit on base housing.
It's like they realised it was going to be too steep halfway through building it.
This gave me a good cackle 😂😂
We had one of these at the local lake. Saw a girl fall from the top and break her arm. Lucky that's all she broke. Wasn't at all unusual to see 50 kids in line, 15 or so on the ladder itself, ranging in age from 5 to early teens. On a real sunny day your ass was burning by the time you got to the bottom so we used to run a bucket brigade to keep the slide slick and cool. Good times.
while i know that kids are dumb and and can fall anywhere theres still a small part of me that thinks that if you somehow manage to fall off a straight slide you probably weren't going to last long in life
I've made it to 43...
Gotta show the bottom of the slide. These killer playground amusements always ended in a deep trough usually filled with mud and water.
I mean, cross-braced A-frames with trussed stairs... yes. Am I wrong?
I remember those!!! You're too busy having fun to see the dangers.
It could be a Pink Floyd cover or something.
The Great Gig on the Slide
See Emily Play
Ahh. So this is why they say kids were more durable in the 70’s/80’s
If the internet had been around at that time, we would have seen reports of many deaths and injuries. As it was, if little Jimmy dies falling off a slide in a tiny Alabama town, no one would ever hear of it.
TBF I was that age in that time period and we used to jump off the roofs of houses for fun. I just assume kid bones are more rubbery.
But when we figured out how to get our bikes up there……
Where is the concrete?
Who could ever forget how hot those slides got on hot sunny days? A slide that long, you would be fried.
Had something like this at my school as a kid (I'm old) and it was awesome. Except it was surrounded by asphalt. I think we had a teacher keeping an eye on everyone though so there weren't a lot of incidents. There was always that one kid tho.
In '85 (I was 4), I fell of a slide like this at a park and smashed the back of my head on an metal bar. Apparently, I was out for days. All I remember is that after I woke up, I got all the Mac and cheese I wanted. Edit- changed iron to metal, I can't be sure it was iron. I was 4 and my parents refuse to talk about The Incident.
See! You're fine. Now get out there and slide again!
Those where the days
Yes, but only because I'm not big on self-preservation.
This looks like the local slide from when I was a boy. Good times.
😨😨😨😨
Best out of three
Yeah why not?
Reminds me of a carnival ride I almost fell off of in Florida in the 70s
r/suislide
People back on 70’s had some serious balls !! 👌
Here I am over 40 years old and just now realizing why all the big slides on playgrounds are tubes. It’s so kids don’t go flying off in all directions.
They weren't that tall; but I remember metal slides in 100°F weather.
My elementary school had one and you could see the roof of the school from the top. It was awesome. One day a kid fell or jumped off and broke their leg. Good times. This was in the mid and late 90’s.
I broke both my wrists on one of those.
Reminds me of Holiday Sands in Ohio. If you haven’t heard of it (no idea why you would) look it up. Thigh scorcher for real.
This is what my first tall side experience felt like in kindergarten. Yes I remember that first time I left the small wide slide and climbed the tall thin slide. They were both made of metal so got really warm on hot days but felt nice.
That looks familiar. They took them down and put up that plastic ones that are more dangerous
These type of slides are still active duty in Japan, it’s the Wild West of playgrounds out here.
That's a dream come true. Whatchu talking about?
Reminds me of that picture of a old school jungle gym with a caption "only the strong survived recess 💪 "
I've been on that slide, it burns.
See we already know you’re not Gen X you must be younger you call this “dangerous”.I think Gen X is the last generation that knows children bounce. They’re like silly putty.wait you don’t even know what that is. They’re like… oh never mind you wouldn’t understand even if you fell off you’re not gonna die!!! 😜
I’m 24 and I’ve never seen a slide like that in my life and probably never will. And you’re right I don’t understand most of what you typed…
Is the danger in the background somewhere???
What!? There are railing on most of the stairs.
Broke my arm pretty bad on something like this in the 90’s not nearly as tall as this behemoth tho… savages from the 70’s
Rusty bottomburners they were, sunburn and tetanus, sounds like the title of a Beck record but for us it was pure fun
As a kid, yeah. I was an 82 kid in an urban burb that basically doesn’t exist anymore. We did so much crazy shit I honestly can’t believe I’m alive and have all my limbs. But I do have scars! On my head, my shin, and my hand!
Action Park?
You beat me by 2 seconds
Did they have a kid surplus in that town?
Guys will look at this and think “hell yeah”
It would take an entire nfl offensive line to keep me off this thing
As a kid? Hell yeah. Would also bring my wax paper
That looks fun! Society is just too soft now 🤣
Yep. We used to ride in the back of the station wagon, window down, no seatbelts. Rode bikes with no helmets. Climbed trees. Lit fires. Jumped on trampolines with no protective fencing around them. Somehow lived through it all. Pretty amazing, huh?
> Somehow lived through it all. Pretty amazing, huh? [I mean](https://i.imgur.com/szHvc7P.png)
You climb up and slide down there is zero danger unless you are an idiot.
That lil dude is takin his balance game to a whole new level
We would be riding our bikes down it!
I'm grabbing a gallon of lube to speed this bad boy up!!
The engineers who designed this slide really just drew perpendicular lines on a bar napkin and told people to build it as high as possible
Head first
You say dangerous but we said fun.
What playground was this? Did they ever have any accidents or injuries?
With wax paper.
That's when you end up decapitated in front of your brother
You would think that slide was fake, but I've seen photos of play equipment from the 50's that was just as outrageous. At least it was over grass and not dirt and rocks.
I lived. I also tore the bottom out of some pants, burned the crap out of the back of my thighs and once I broke my leg. Good times, it was a sad day when they took the slide and the merry go round.
My elementary school had one like this only rows of slides down the side of the hill next to the yard. Huge fiberglass double woop and like 12 wide and zero supervision for recess.
People didn't twerk everywhere back then i guess.
It's about as tall as the sloped roof I climbed on to clean leaves out of my gutters, so yes. That slide looks considerably safer than my roof.
Oh hell yeah!
What do you mean “give it a try”? There’s a slide, we were kids, we slid down the slide.
Bin there Done that
Only in the 70s
Lemme tell ya, in my youth (80s) there was a neighborhood park with a slide that no doubt in my mind was at least 50 feet tall. Screeching hot metal on your legs and ass when you went down.
I still have a scar from the burn of such a summer slide.
Only dangerous the first time then you get the hang of it
I hated those slides even back then. I avoided the really tall ones. The stairs scared me lol
I rode taller and steeper ones as a kid in the 90s
if i were younger, might. looks fun enough for children to slide while discouraging adult trying.
Thats the man maker 2000
I don't want lead poisoning. No thank you
Survival of the fittest baby. I tell you what, those where the good days.
I did try a slide almost this high. About halfway down there was a joint that snagged my shorts and slowed my descent so that the hot slide burned my bare legs. Never tried it again. 🔥 ouch
I think I did.
He’ll yes
You spelled awesome wrong 🤣
Oh hell nah wtf lol
We had one about half this height at my school and at our local park in the 80s. This is in New Mexico and they would both get hot enough in the summer to leave blisters if you made skin to metal contact. The ladders were much sketchier too. They took them down when some kid fell off and broke his arm and collar bone. The playground stuff at the school was then changed to this stuff made of round wooden beams that would stick you with "splinters" as big as a #2 pencil.
This is normal to me
That is gangster
It builds character 😎
And when the slide had a bit of dirt from the trees or rust, you'd have to skootch down it inch by sunny broiling painful inch
I'm from NJ. If it doesn't have a loop in it, that's amateur shit. Welcome to Traction Park.
Wet should bring back playgrounds like this
This picture omits the hard concrete floor that the slide stands on. And it isn't raining, so I've defo seen (and used) worse
Surprised it wasn’t on solid concrete as well lol
This reminds me of one of my recurring nightmares
They were great fun and dangerous man I miss that stuff.
At my elementary school in South Texas We had slides like that and in July and august it would cook your ass on the way down.
Even safe slides can be made dangerous due to stupidity, [Slide clogging incident](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-06-03-mn-65160-story.html) as an example
We had [Witches Hats](https://www.flickr.com/photos/opobs/15609048238) in playgrounds up & down the country. Caused many an injury everywhere til they were banned & scrapped. We used to climb right up them and grip the bars at the top-get them spinning fast af. You could get your legs flying out behind you if you had the right people on the ground. The brave & foolish used to let go and try to parachute roll. I did hear some kids died on em and that’s why they were banned but I reckon it’s urban myth bollocks.
I know them from the 60s. They were cool. And hot as hell in the sun.
Me yes, my kids definitely no
There was one like this at a campground in Indiana that my family used to go to. Rocky Fork or something like that? You had a use a blanket or piece of carpet to ride down it. I tried to grab the side one time to slide down and got a giant blister on my hand, lol. Edit: Rocky Fork campground is in Hillsboro, Oh - the opposite direction I was thinking. Either I'm misremembering the name of the park, or I was kid that was completely lost, directionally-speaking.
I have slid down many of those in my day they were hot 🔥 af and you'd catch at almost every seam they were actually hilarious bcuz you knew at some point someone would shortless at the end of day and those stories are priceless my friends the world is "NOTHING" Like it was then them are are also priceless
Wouldn't call it play- "ground" I would advise you to play on the "ground" But do not change your mind midway!
With a bike, one could roam the land looking for the best play structures.
Nah! Doesn’t seem sunny and hot enough to get that “my skin is on fire feeling” oh and got to throw that hand full of sand down first to get that extra speed
Everything was "dangerous" back in the 70's, yet here we are still alive.
Conservatives will look at this and genuinely not understand why we no longer allow a few of our children to snap their necks from 40ft
It was a different time. I remember breaking my forearm, it looked like a boomerang, so I walked around a little bit showing it off to the other kids. Then it started hurting so I went home.