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The Merry Go Round?

• bugs_bunny 7y ago
  I think he might be referring to the slide with 20 ft drops made with two pipes...as in the Darwinian versions shown here.... https://clickamericana.com/toys-and-games/dangerous-old-playgrounds-our-great-grandparents-somehow-survived https://clickamericana.com/toys-and-games/dangerous-old-play...
• dllthomas 7y ago
  Not the Merry Go Round. https://playgroundology.wordpress.com/2018/06/29/whats-in-a-name-or-the-spinny-thing-of-death https://playgroundology.wordpress.com/2018/06/29/whats-in-a-... A glorious, if occasional, feature of my childhood. We did refer to it that way, I think organically (perhaps just looking back and not at the time - I can't recall). I found the article about it by googling the phrase! I'm not sure how I'd feel about my own child on it, to be honest. I'm more bummed that he isn't allowed to climb any of the disused locomotive engines that are still present (but now fenced off) at a number of playgrounds.