[Proud_texan]

Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about the fun playground stuff, that's a great one. Also the swings with the chain link that you could try and wrap around the poll (I never did it/knew anybody who did it) but the coolest was to bail out at the apex.

So what if you landed on asphalt or, if it was high end, pea gravel, that was part of the "skill"!

[Cboldt]

Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about the fun playground stuff ...

We had a May-pole sort of thing, actually, two different kinds. One kid would get to rid while the others crowded toward the center and powered the wheel. It could go mighty fast. Fast enough, in fact, that it was not possible to hang on! I loved to ride, and as a "small kid" the bigger ones found it easier to power the wheel with me as the rider. Man, those were the days.