Remember playing on a contraption like this?

[yortsed snacilbuper]

[Skittles]

1. honestly

I do NOT remember them being that high

I used to climb trees that high, then I would cry for my dad to come get me because I'd get vertigo

[mr_lebowski]

2. Apparently those contraptions were gone by the 1970's when I'z a kid ... but HOLY CRAP!?!

What kind of child-hating sadists designed this thing?

And I'm confused how one even gets onto the swings? Or off of them?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. I never saw one that big.

The jungle-gyms I played on weren't more than about 6' above the ground.

[JohnnyRingo]

4. Yes, and I skinned my knee in the gravel.

Thank goodness we've safety proofed our playgrounds so no child will again have to experience the sheer debilitating agony of a boo boo.

[rsdsharp]

16. When I was in 4th grade they covered our playground in ASPHALT.

Try sliding into third base on that shit.

[JohnnyRingo]

19. LOL

That must have been the year of the great gravel shortage. Just made learning to ride that Harley less fearsome one day.

Now it's nothing more abrasive than wood chips.

[rsdsharp]

25. Before the asphalt it was grass.

Well, it was supposed to be grass. A couple of hundred kids playing on it four times a day turned it into dirt -- or mud. Mothers apparently thought it was better for little Mortimer to come home covered with abrasions, than with muddy clothes. Of course, the clothes were beat up, too, and you can't wash out rips and tears.

[jberryhill]

27. Apparently, no one in your class had a permanently disfiguring injury from poorly designed equipment

Unlike my class.

[2naSalit]

5. Hell yeah.

Maybe about 3 or so feet shorter but yep. Every once in a while one of the kids would fall off the top or get whacked by someone else on a swing... fun times in the military housing. They had big playgrounds for the whole housing complex and some were very much like that. Made out of galvanized steel pipe, I think it was. I always climbed up to the top. The swings weren't up high like that so they had really long sweep and you could get quite a rush from them. Kind of like a tire swing that is lashed over a high branch.

[defacto7]

6. Yeah, and we all fell and died... until morning. Then we'd do it again.

[safeinOhio]

7. I have a huge collection of photos from 1905

and by the cloths and bike, I'd guess about that time period.

[msongs]

8. when every kid wore a hat to the playground lol nt

[Karadeniz]

9. No...but I would've if one had been around!❤

[Bucky]

10. Why is it built over grass instead of concrete?

If you molly coddle kids, they'll grow up weak! Broken bones build character.

[Bucky]

11. Here's another old playground photos

I like the "slide" that's just two wooden poles and the parallel bars that are 5 ft off the ground.







Of course back then getting kicked in the head by a mule was a favorite form of entertainment. Social Darwinism and regular Darwinism are potent character builders

[diane in sf]

12. These would give the yard apes a very good workout. They look like unsanitized fun to me.

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

13. When I was a teenager I never had to shave my knees

All the years of scrapes and scabs made them permanently hairless.

[samnsara]

14. about 20 yrs ago my husbands co workers dtr was paralyzed from the neck down playing on one..

...on a weekend with her dad just feet away. She was hanging by her knees..fell.

Last I heard she graduated college and is married now..

[Aristus]

15. Yeah.

I slid through the bars wrong one time, and gave myself a bloody nose.

Another kid fell off the monkey bars and knocked himself out cold. School personnel had to bear him off the playground on a stretcher.

The people who say "Kids these days..." with the implicit understanding that they survived unsafe conditions are lying about or forgetting how unsafe they actually were.

[targetpractice]

21. I remember those as "monkey bars"...

I remember commandeering them and turning them into the Starship Enterprise, with my crew assigned to the bridge, engine room. different decks, and whatnot.

[Aristus]

22. I did the same thing!

Once monkey bars gave way to 'Big Toys', with their platforms, ladders, bridges, steering wheels, firehouse poles, etc, I turned ours into a submarine. Even in sixth grade, I knew all the submariner lingo from the movies. So I was the captain, and was constantly ordering my 'men' to 'rig for depth charging! Blow negative to the mark!'

What fun...

[utopian]

30. The bars in post 17 were our Enterprise

"Kirk" and "Spock" hung out on top. We used little red staplers as communicators. Great times.

[samnsara]

28. the only thing i would do on them is hang by my hands on the bars.. my feet were

almost touching the ground. I hated heights then... as i still do! Also the boys would always try to look up our dresses ( cuz in those days females HAD to wear dresses..even in the sub zero weather.)

[IcyPeas]

17. this is the type we played on in the 60s:

[lpbk2713]

23. I see London. I see France.

IcyPeas??

[IcyPeas]

33. lol

yeah, I noticed the boys' faces. hopefully my mother put me in shorts.

[samnsara]

29. ..like these boys are doing!

[ThoughtCriminal]

18. By the time I was was in grade school in the early 60's

they were not that high and they removed the punji stakes that were previously underneath.

[Kaleva]

20. We used to climb trees higher then that.

[LawnKorn]

24. I was about to say

I lived in a somewhat rural area, we called them " trees ".

[TEB]

26. I do not

Do not Remember our school having anything as this but then I started school 71-72 and we had monkey bars but nothing like this

[Archae]

31. In the 1960's and early 1970's, ours looked like this...

Yup, our "space capsule."

[Bayard]

32. I'll say one thing about the acrobatics involved here...

These kids all look FIT!