Tuesday, JULY 14, 2020 SOMEHOW WE SURVIVED THESE PLAYGROUNDS
TUESDAY
July 14, 2020
RIHS’s 104th Issue of:
PLAYGROUNDS OF OUR CHILDHOOD
“GO OUT AND PLAY”
“COME HOME FOR DINNER”
Think about your childhood where little girls and little boys played in separate areas of the school yard.
Girls had hopscotch, which has recently been revived on Roosevelt Island, along with jump rope and cat’s cradle
47 dangerous old playgrounds that our great-grandparents somehow
from Click Americana (c)
How many can slide down at once?
Before composites, rubber padding and any kind of protection, the playground was a “free-for-all.”
Remember the slides, shiny metal and burning hot in the sunshine.
The Jungle Jim
The seesaw, another favorite. just hold on real tight
You spin me right round (1925) On the Medart Ocean Wave (“With an Undulating and Wavelike Motion”) you could sit facing in or out — or stand — on this spinner from the mid-’20s. It just depended on whether you wanted to throw up on bystanders, or the other people on the ride with you.
The description says this comes from a school for the blind
Knee boo boos were an everyday occurrence.
TUESDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY
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Win a trinket from the RIHS Visitor Center Kiosk
MONDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY
CORNERSTONE ON FORMER GOLDWATER STEAM PLANT.
STARETT VAN YLECK ARCHITECTS 1936
Go out and play was the instructions kids of the 50’s received from mom.
I remember some of the playground equipment illustrated here. I think I mastered cat’s cradle and Hopscotch
Text by Judith Berdy
Thanks to Bobbie Slonevsky for her dedication to Blackwell’s Almanac and the RIHS
Thanks to Deborah Dorff for maintaining our website
Edited by Melanie Colter and Deborah Dorff
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Images courtesy of CLICK AMERICANA (C)
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