Comments on: Old School Playground

By: Hereiam_2

Hereiam_2 — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 02:53:00 +0000

Does anyone remember hand swings? If you do, could you post a picture?

By: Billann637

Billann637 — Mon, 30 May 2011 17:33:00 +0000

I feel exactly the same! Loved my childhood playground!

By: dawn

dawn — Thu, 26 May 2011 00:47:00 +0000

I’ve been mentioning this piece of playground equipment to my husband for decades, as he hadn’t ever experienced one when he was young. How I loved it–it was just the wildest fun, and addictive. It was so popular, too, that a solid wall of kids would be hanging on around it, and you had to wait until someone dropped off to get a chance to grab the bar. And yes, when the big kids were making it swoop and tilt, it was terrifying and thrilling. I remember getting huge blisters on my palms because I didn’t want to get off. I would even hook my arm over the bar to get some more rides when my palms got too sore. I can still feel the thrill of it even to this day, almost fifty years later!

By: Joeylotsakids43

Joeylotsakids43 — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 15:25:00 +0000

We had one of these at Delaney Elementary in Grand Rapids Michigan. I was telling my 2 youngest boys about it. I wish they didn’t vote it to dangerous I loved this ride. I hate that evrything has gone from fast and furious and yes sometimes dangerous to totaly boring and simple. I think that the things we had as children were awesome sometimes great courage buliders we seriously had to get the guts to check it out. And when we did we couldn’t get enough of it. Totaly wish my boys could experince the. Fun and thrill of the witches hat.

By: PolishBear

PolishBear — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:42:00 +0000

The bestest, funnest, most dangerous piece of playground equipment EVER! There was one of these at a city park in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, back in the 1960s, and my cousins and I used to have a BALL on it! If you were REALLY foolhardy, you’d jump inside and try to avoid being smooshed between the swinging part and the central pole!

It’s too bad cool old playground equipment like slides and swings and teeter-totters and merry-go-rounds are vanishing for fear that some kid might get a bruise or chip a tooth. Eventually playgrounds are going to be little more than big piles of pillows … which is pretty much what the kids of the future will be like also.

By: iankennedy

iankennedy — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:03:36 +0000

Ah yes, we had that rope climb too! There was a mat but it was super thin. I think you'd still break a leg or blow a kneecap.

I remember riding in my parent's old Saab, standing up between the front seats and talking to mom & dad while we sped down the freeway. None of us ever considered what would happen if the car made a sudden stop. Times were different then…

By: Nancy Vetter

Nancy Vetter — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:48:50 +0000

I'm in my 50's and I remember this piece of playground equipment so well. Yes, the grown ups were trying to kill us off – or at least providing us with a near death experience. Another device of torture in my elementary school was a very thick rope suspended from our gymnasium ceiling, which at that time seemed like 300' feet high. We would be instructed to climb up the rope and touch the top. I do not remember if there was even a tumbling pad at the bottom of the rope – just in case we fell to break our fall somewhat. In order to receive a passing grade, you had to touch the top. Yeah, they were out to kill us.

Thanks for the memories.

By: Mangalamata

Mangalamata — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:00:50 +0000

Are you complaining about the witches hat? That thing was so fun. Does anyone know if they still make these- I would take every scrap, scratch and bruise over again a million times–thats how fun old playground equipment -especially this one -was.

By: iankennedy

iankennedy — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:36:00 +0000

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