[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

My dad built a thing he and others called a Spinning Jenny. It was a long piece of wood, “nailed” to a tree stump and it would go a full circle. As kids we loved that thing but we would be very dizzy afterwards.

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I grew up in a city during the 70s. Our parks were a bit worn and rough but structurally well-maintained.

We had a metal version of your homemade ride. It was a large flat disk on an axle and had metal pipe handles to hang on with.

The bigger kids would set it spinning and the smaller kids would try to hold on.

I understand they've been banned by our wonderful modern day liberal caretakers. Yippee.

I'd rather go back to "dangerous liberty" and abandond this "safe slavery."

[MamaB]

Don’t get me started on what the powerful have done to our playgrounds. No large slides, nothing that “might” hurt a kid. I loved those slides, the bar thing that we used our hands/feet to walk across. Funny, I do not remember walking on top of it. Guess the teachers did not allow it. People today do not allow kids to be kids. They start dressing them like adults before pre-school. That is so wrong. I remember my late husband telling my older daughter and her friends not to climb in and out of his bass fishing boat. One did, fell out and broke her arm. No big deal. Her mom took her to the dr, had a cast put on and I do not know this for a fact but I imagine they kept doing that. Accidents happen. I often wonder what happened to her and my daughter’s other friends. I did find one on Facebook.