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What was your favorite thing to do on the playground???
I love the swings!
It was a tie between the swings & the slides. :)
Swings were definitely one of my favorites. Also liked the sandbox, cause when I was little I loved getting dirty...lol
Jody
Swings it is! Slides were only good if I had long pants on and took my shoes off...skin and shoes slow down the ride down!
I couldn't do anything that spinned or went up and down, easily made sick by any of those movements, even a swing could get me pukey. I guess the only thing I could try was the slide. But when we were little we wore lots of dresses, so that didn't happen all that often either. (Ever hit a metal slide on a hot summer day in a dress???? OW) So I was creative and the sandbox ended up my favorite. I made whole villages and caught little toads and put them in and watched them go in and out of my houses and up and down my streets. LOL God I hadn't thought of that in ages!!!
Annie
swings are the funniest.
i vote for the teeter totter [see saw] -- i've got lots of video of my sis-in-law and me doing synchronized teetering while trying to balance discreetly after a few cocktails up at lake chautauqua [upstate new york] a few years ago. it was hysterical!!! :eek:
thanks for reminding me -- good times!!
I liked swinging so high that the chains would get some slack. It was fun to see how high over the bar you could get.
Those were the days.
I just remembered something!! My dad put hand made swings in our backyard. He had these incredibly big pieces of wood for the seats. One day a neighbor and myself were swinging and her swing broke. She fell harmlessly to the soft ground below. But her out of control swing hit me square in the face and knocked me unconscious, & loosened 8 teeth. I woke up at the local doctor's office/house. He lived less than a quarter mile away. The next day I had braces put on my teeth to keep them in my mouth. They were my second teeth.
Funny thing about this story is that my sisters and I all had a rather wide space between our 2 front teeth. This took care of correcting that space for me. My sisters had cosmetic work on their teeth when they were adults and always reminded me how I got away with not having to pay for my straight gapless grin!!!
I still don't like swings!!!
Annie
Poor Annie.
At least it had a happy ending. :-)
For me, it was the monkey bars....those silver barred pyramid-like monstrosity. And whoever could make it to the top, was the coolest. (Which was never me...) I used to play tag on the monkey bars and if you touched the ground, you were out.
Joe
Monkey bars were great - but I used to love to hang upside down on the bars and do little spins on them. I miss that :( gymnastics was my first love.
Spins on them??? Upside down??? Egads, Jen!!! You're the Evel Knievel of Playground People!!!
Here's a playground story. Actually a true one. Many, many years ago, playgrounds were built over cemented sidewalks. Kids were beginning to get injured as they fell off the see saws, slides and monkey bars...the monkey bars, Jenel Knenel...
My brother, not the brightest bulb in the world, decided that he would crawl up the slide on the slide part because, I guess, it was faster and easier to do it than to go all around and then climb up the stairs to the top.
As he was doing that.... some kid was at the top sitting, rarin' to go sliding down!!! Zzzzoooommm!!! Off he goes...sliding down to Slide Heaven!!! Wheeee!!!! He hits into my dumb brother, who falls off of the slide, onto the concrete where he bleeds like a wounded whale.... Off to the hospital!!!! They kind of stitch him back up and the next thing I read is that they will be redoing all of the parks and playgrounds with rubber, so dopey kids like my brother wouldn't get hurt.
Where was I in all of this playground funnery??? Probably the kid who encouraged the kid on the top of the slide to slide down.... ha ha. Well.... it was kind of cool....
Joe
i liked the one that spinned around...the merry-go-round type that you hop on once you get it going around real fast
:)
Anything but the monkey bars!! i broke an arm on monkey bars!! ... and once, i even got stuck on top of them (u know how kids like to climb up on top of the monkey bars?!)...
Actually, my fav part of playgrounds is probably the slides... we used to always play this game where one person would sit at the bottom, and slowly the entire class would slide down (sideways, not feet out front)and the person at the bottomw ould try to hold them all... as soon as that person gave out, the person next to the bottom would try to hold everyone up... it was a fun game! lol..(i dunno if that made sense!)
x0x0x Kim
I loved the one that spun around. You could really whip that thing and then hang half your body off. That is hands down- the best.
You wont find any at a playground anywhere- anymore.
They are too dangerous.
Probably too many lawsuits!
Still, its the best damn playground toy ever. If I found one these days, I would ride it, forsure!
My next favorite is the see-saw.
Ahh- I could use an old fashioned day at the playground, I think! :p
Thanks for this tread. Brought back some really terrific memories!
MelissaLynn
Swings, and the monkey bars, and the slides.......I liked everything....except the seesaw, It made my butt hurt...
The merry-go-round was my favorite. Several kids could get that thing spinning so fast if you didn't hang on it would throw you off.
I loved the see saw. I had twin cousins just a year older than me and we were really close back then - we'd get on them (one of us sat in the very middle) and talk for hours.
And this isn't true playground equipment, but I LOVED the pogo stick! I was the pogo stick champion at the summer playground program in grade school - still have the blue ribbon somewhere!
okay -- what abouth the sandbox? huh? didn't you have fun there?
my 9 yr old likes the monkey bars. she can do 5 pullups at a time!!
:D This is such a great thread!!! What memories. Of course the playgrounds I played on were the ones built on cement or rock hard dirt. Metal slides, swings and everything else metal - except the merry-go-round thingy, that was wood with extra splinters please! All of the metal slides and swings were always in the sun, never ever in the shade. This is so the bird droppings wouldn't get on the equipment. AHHHHHH, nothing like a metal slide at 12 noon in the sun and shortie shorts! Actually, we all learned that if you braved the "cooking" of the back of your legs, every time down the pain got less and less. Of course this is because the skin is burnt and dead now. Let Mom deal with getting rid of the pain later at night when I would be crying about it. And I wonder why I have such skin problems now! I would spend the entire day - every day at the playground with all of my friends. We never got tired of it. I completely forgot about all of this so thank you so much for reminding me. I cannot get this smile off of my face now.
I now have a 5-1/2 year old boy who absolutely loves the playground. Here in Sayreville, NJ there is a big one that has the usual swing sets, even one for wheelchairs [though I have never seen a wheelchair on it. Only the kids sitting on the "floor" and whipping it around like crazy until they end up hurt and crying :( ]. Anyway, there are 2 amazingly huge things the kids love. A castle and a pirate ship. They are made by Little Tykes, I believe. You can climb all over, through and under them. There are slides everywhere on them and monkey bars connecting them in areas. If I could learn how to post a picture here I'd love to show you all. And by the way - they are way big enough for adults, who usually are running all over them because they are always "it" in a non-stop game of tag :p !
Oh boy, another generation building wonderful playground memories. :D
my 9 yr old likes the monkey bars. she can do 5 pullups at a time!!
Karen, sign her up for gymnastics......ya need a coach????? :)
My favorite was the Maypole...............we used to go to the playground everyday and Mom always said DO NOT go on the maypole.......I think that is what made me want to do it even more...I used to sneak and go on it anyway :eek:
IMAGINATION.
VERE AD LUDUM INCESSURUS ES!
Swings!!!! Oh, glorious swings! I still go to the playground up the street once in a while just to swing.
Though that spinny merry go round thing really was great!
And I can vouch that as recent as the late 80's early 90's playgrounds still had asphalt instead of nice cushy sand and plastic!
Jill
I love the swings!
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It was a tie between the swings & the slides. :)
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Swings were definitely one of my favorites. Also liked the sandbox, cause when I was little I loved getting dirty...lol
Jody
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Swings it is! Slides were only good if I had long pants on and took my shoes off...skin and shoes slow down the ride down!
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I couldn't do anything that spinned or went up and down, easily made sick by any of those movements, even a swing could get me pukey. I guess the only thing I could try was the slide. But when we were little we wore lots of dresses, so that didn't happen all that often either. (Ever hit a metal slide on a hot summer day in a dress???? OW) So I was creative and the sandbox ended up my favorite. I made whole villages and caught little toads and put them in and watched them go in and out of my houses and up and down my streets. LOL God I hadn't thought of that in ages!!!
Annie
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swings are the funniest.
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i vote for the teeter totter [see saw] -- i've got lots of video of my sis-in-law and me doing synchronized teetering while trying to balance discreetly after a few cocktails up at lake chautauqua [upstate new york] a few years ago. it was hysterical!!! :eek:
thanks for reminding me -- good times!!
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I liked swinging so high that the chains would get some slack. It was fun to see how high over the bar you could get.
Those were the days.
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I just remembered something!! My dad put hand made swings in our backyard. He had these incredibly big pieces of wood for the seats. One day a neighbor and myself were swinging and her swing broke. She fell harmlessly to the soft ground below. But her out of control swing hit me square in the face and knocked me unconscious, & loosened 8 teeth. I woke up at the local doctor's office/house. He lived less than a quarter mile away. The next day I had braces put on my teeth to keep them in my mouth. They were my second teeth.
Funny thing about this story is that my sisters and I all had a rather wide space between our 2 front teeth. This took care of correcting that space for me. My sisters had cosmetic work on their teeth when they were adults and always reminded me how I got away with not having to pay for my straight gapless grin!!!
I still don't like swings!!!
Annie
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Poor Annie.
At least it had a happy ending. :-)
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For me, it was the monkey bars....those silver barred pyramid-like monstrosity. And whoever could make it to the top, was the coolest. (Which was never me...) I used to play tag on the monkey bars and if you touched the ground, you were out.
Joe
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Monkey bars were great - but I used to love to hang upside down on the bars and do little spins on them. I miss that :( gymnastics was my first love.
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Spins on them??? Upside down??? Egads, Jen!!! You're the Evel Knievel of Playground People!!!
Here's a playground story. Actually a true one. Many, many years ago, playgrounds were built over cemented sidewalks. Kids were beginning to get injured as they fell off the see saws, slides and monkey bars...the monkey bars, Jenel Knenel...
My brother, not the brightest bulb in the world, decided that he would crawl up the slide on the slide part because, I guess, it was faster and easier to do it than to go all around and then climb up the stairs to the top.
As he was doing that.... some kid was at the top sitting, rarin' to go sliding down!!! Zzzzoooommm!!! Off he goes...sliding down to Slide Heaven!!! Wheeee!!!! He hits into my dumb brother, who falls off of the slide, onto the concrete where he bleeds like a wounded whale.... Off to the hospital!!!! They kind of stitch him back up and the next thing I read is that they will be redoing all of the parks and playgrounds with rubber, so dopey kids like my brother wouldn't get hurt.
Where was I in all of this playground funnery??? Probably the kid who encouraged the kid on the top of the slide to slide down.... ha ha. Well.... it was kind of cool....
Joe
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i liked the one that spinned around...the merry-go-round type that you hop on once you get it going around real fast
:)
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Anything but the monkey bars!! i broke an arm on monkey bars!! ... and once, i even got stuck on top of them (u know how kids like to climb up on top of the monkey bars?!)...
Actually, my fav part of playgrounds is probably the slides... we used to always play this game where one person would sit at the bottom, and slowly the entire class would slide down (sideways, not feet out front)and the person at the bottomw ould try to hold them all... as soon as that person gave out, the person next to the bottom would try to hold everyone up... it was a fun game! lol..(i dunno if that made sense!)
x0x0x Kim
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I loved the one that spun around. You could really whip that thing and then hang half your body off. That is hands down- the best.
You wont find any at a playground anywhere- anymore.
They are too dangerous.
Probably too many lawsuits!
Still, its the best damn playground toy ever. If I found one these days, I would ride it, forsure!
My next favorite is the see-saw.
Ahh- I could use an old fashioned day at the playground, I think! :p
Thanks for this tread. Brought back some really terrific memories!
MelissaLynn
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Swings, and the monkey bars, and the slides.......I liked everything....except the seesaw, It made my butt hurt...
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The merry-go-round was my favorite. Several kids could get that thing spinning so fast if you didn't hang on it would throw you off.
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I loved the see saw. I had twin cousins just a year older than me and we were really close back then - we'd get on them (one of us sat in the very middle) and talk for hours.
And this isn't true playground equipment, but I LOVED the pogo stick! I was the pogo stick champion at the summer playground program in grade school - still have the blue ribbon somewhere!
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okay -- what abouth the sandbox? huh? didn't you have fun there?
my 9 yr old likes the monkey bars. she can do 5 pullups at a time!!
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:D This is such a great thread!!! What memories. Of course the playgrounds I played on were the ones built on cement or rock hard dirt. Metal slides, swings and everything else metal - except the merry-go-round thingy, that was wood with extra splinters please! All of the metal slides and swings were always in the sun, never ever in the shade. This is so the bird droppings wouldn't get on the equipment. AHHHHHH, nothing like a metal slide at 12 noon in the sun and shortie shorts! Actually, we all learned that if you braved the "cooking" of the back of your legs, every time down the pain got less and less. Of course this is because the skin is burnt and dead now. Let Mom deal with getting rid of the pain later at night when I would be crying about it. And I wonder why I have such skin problems now! I would spend the entire day - every day at the playground with all of my friends. We never got tired of it. I completely forgot about all of this so thank you so much for reminding me. I cannot get this smile off of my face now.
I now have a 5-1/2 year old boy who absolutely loves the playground. Here in Sayreville, NJ there is a big one that has the usual swing sets, even one for wheelchairs [though I have never seen a wheelchair on it. Only the kids sitting on the "floor" and whipping it around like crazy until they end up hurt and crying :( ]. Anyway, there are 2 amazingly huge things the kids love. A castle and a pirate ship. They are made by Little Tykes, I believe. You can climb all over, through and under them. There are slides everywhere on them and monkey bars connecting them in areas. If I could learn how to post a picture here I'd love to show you all. And by the way - they are way big enough for adults, who usually are running all over them because they are always "it" in a non-stop game of tag :p !
Oh boy, another generation building wonderful playground memories. :D
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my 9 yr old likes the monkey bars. she can do 5 pullups at a time!!
Karen, sign her up for gymnastics......ya need a coach????? :)
My favorite was the Maypole...............we used to go to the playground everyday and Mom always said DO NOT go on the maypole.......I think that is what made me want to do it even more...I used to sneak and go on it anyway :eek:
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IMAGINATION.
VERE AD LUDUM INCESSURUS ES!
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Swings!!!! Oh, glorious swings! I still go to the playground up the street once in a while just to swing.
Though that spinny merry go round thing really was great!
And I can vouch that as recent as the late 80's early 90's playgrounds still had asphalt instead of nice cushy sand and plastic!
Jill
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