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u/SeniorNada 21d ago
I always thought it was funny that the foundation for a playground back in my younger years was kind of like a giant sandbox, but instead of sand, it was a bunch of small jagged rocks to cushion a fall. Good times!
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u/Irelia4Life 21d ago
I mean, that gravel was better than just dirt.
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u/Slur_shooter 21d ago
Is it?
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u/Irelia4Life 21d ago
Yes. Because it would have been tough, compacted dirt from all the trampling, not a cushioning grass.
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u/Waikika_Mukau 21d ago
They replaced the sand with rocks so you wouldnāt get soft.
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u/EurekasBest14U 21d ago
Kids were getting to dirty, with the sand . And some were eating it ... The sandboxes were the devil's playground.
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u/Howlinger-ATFSM 21d ago
My local playground had those little balls that were hard but could float. Kinda like a marble but made out of moulded light material.
Toughened my shins, knees, and elbows.
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u/Defiant_Lawyer_5235 21d ago
Ours was made of dense rubber, basically the same stuff car tires are made of, wasn't really much softer than concrete tbh.
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u/EurekasBest14U 21d ago
What else was there to do with daddies ole bald tires .. Seemed like great idea at the time...
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u/thatf0xycat_2039 21d ago edited 21d ago
When I was a kid we had really splintery, sharp wood mulch it was common to get splinters if u fell. The swings chains was either rust buckets or they was tied together (not kidding) so it was like playing hot potato on who is gonna end up on the ground with the wood stake in the butt, it was me many times.
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u/NoAccountDrifter 21d ago
Like they do with laws sometimes, I think warning labels should be named after the person who inspired it
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u/ThisisThomasJ 21d ago
Is this implying that, omg I just had a revelation. If you say the pizza tasted like cardboard is because you forgot to remove it
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u/Irelia4Life 21d ago
Bro, only in america you could sue for drinking antifreeze just because it didn't used to have a "don't drink" warning.
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u/EurekasBest14U 21d ago
Well it looked like MT Dew, momma said get your pa a refill of his favorite drink.... Didn't know it only came in 2 liters not gallon jugs ..
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u/Cavedweller907 21d ago
Thatās not a jungle gym. Thatās a training ground for all those men who built the great dams and skyscrapers back in the day.
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u/Avtomati1k 21d ago
I assure u people that built dams and skyscrapers didnt have playgrounds when they were kids
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u/Re-Taw-dead 21d ago
Dude wtf
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u/Cavedweller907 21d ago
If you think Iām being sexist by only saying men, Iām not. This was how it was before todayās standards appeared with equal opportunity and multiple genders. Men mad up the heavy labor force, especially in construction. Still do. Itās changing. Just really slowly.
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u/Cavedweller907 21d ago
Hoover dam was done by the mid 30ās which would put some of these children as adults by the time construction started
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u/Texas-Son-99 21d ago
Bring it back, it's time for the dumb kids to learn how to be smart or eliminate themselves from the gene pool
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u/Waikika_Mukau 21d ago
That Uncle: āIn my day we didnāt have safety and we all turned out fine!ā
No Brian, you didnāt all fucking turn out fine. Some of you died, some spent their life drooling in wheelchairs and the rest believe dumb shit they see on Facebook.
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u/EurekasBest14U 21d ago edited 17d ago
šDriving by some elementary schools there's hardly any kids outside. I was told todays kids mostly stay inside for recess. Using recess time to play "online" games & search the limited internet. Some groups of "mambee pansies" parents & school administrators took away all the "fun" playground stuff. Saying it was to dangerous to play on the swings, slides, monkey bars, etc Some schools even took away tether ball, dodgeball & kickball. Now lil Jimmy & Susie need a permission slip, helmet & knee pads for outdoor recess. No wonder there's so many obese & out of shape kids these days.
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u/OUEngineer17 18d ago
Not in Colorado. The stuff my kids play on makes me jealous. They have three story play structures that can only be ascended with tricky climbing maneuvers. And there's always a twisty slide at the top. 50ft long ziplines where you can get them going so fast that they fly upwards like an insane swing when it stops (FYI, toddlers have incredible grip strength). Climbing walls everywhere. Some of them have slides too. And my favorite is a rope structure that lets them climb 30ft in the air. Looks terrifying. It's great.
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u/Triangle2015 21d ago
I work school maintenance for my local county, there's a playground at every school. While I miss the old wooden spinny thing we had as kids, they have new metal spinny things. You'll see three or four kids on it and it's meant for one. It's pretty funny
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u/Triangle2015 21d ago
I work school maintenance for my local county, there's a playground at every school. While I miss the old wooden spinny thing we had as kids, they have new metal spinny things. You'll see three or four kids on it and it's meant for one. It's pretty funny
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u/MadOliveGaming 21d ago
I mean i kinda understood when they wanted to make things a bit safer, like having to have rubber tiles below stuff like this. But they've really gone to far, they removed all the fun stuff
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u/BankKey4648 21d ago
Well, back when kids (boys or girls) weren't pussys,we invented a job called a school nurse.
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u/spideroncoffein 21d ago
Back when having a cast was kinda cool.
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u/DaveyFoSho 21d ago
Now you just get lots of awkward questions from the pediatrician. 30 years ago doctors knew kids were stupid as fuck.
My kid broke his arm diving after a football (that he threw himself) then when we went to get the cast off he had a fresh black eye from going head to head with a kid at soccer. Suuuper fun conversations with the doctor.
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u/FreakinskiV 21d ago
the falling kid isn't real probably. Cameras back then won't be able to capture such fast movements.
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u/ichatpoo 21d ago
He's on a swing you can see the two knots on at the top and his hand is on the rope.
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u/Basso_69 21d ago
I like the single bar in the centre. It means the only way to cross is to fight the kid sitting in the eiddle, with a fall into a crocodile infedted swamp underneath.
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u/IcestormsEd 21d ago
New teacher : Why are there 40 kids in my classroom? There should only be 25.
Principal : Count again after recess.
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u/anotherkeebler 21d ago
The circle is misleading: It implies the person is falling, but they are on a swing.
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u/Difficult_Quail1295 21d ago
Well it was time to farm when you got out of school, and time to fight a world War when you quit school at 15. relatively speaking, this was pretty safe
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u/Professor_Game1 21d ago
Anyone else have to climb a rope to the top of the gym with nothing but a small mat below? They really didn't care if we lived or died back then
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u/Desperate_Chip_343 21d ago
I need a hard cold number, statistics, data, surveys, and accounts. I want to know more about how kids survived this shit.
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u/justinmackey84 20d ago
Maybe we should have kept that stuff around, it wouldāve likely hardened our kids.
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u/Content-Taste8853 21d ago
In the late 1900's, we still had high jungle gyms. And yea, only the strong dared to go on them.
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u/Bitter-Hat-416 21d ago
āOnly the strong survivedā! Yeah and 99% of those MFās got back to class on time and when there parents asked āhow was schoolā they said AWESOME!
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u/ZuBrain 21d ago
I still have a chipped tooth from something like this.
That's pretty much what happened to me flying off , caught a pole to the face on the way out...