I remember back in da day I used go to park across the street play on monkey bars and swing in 1970s in my neighorhood it was safe
I think start change in 1980s when gang members was shooting each other at the park that got so bad that they even advise don’t allow the kids play in the park themselves
I used go in late morning hour go home for lunch then come back come home in time of dinnertime for me it was 5pm
Whenever I hear Monkey Bars, I think of the old Bill Cosby routine:
"As kids we knew the grownups were trying to murder us, to bump us off. We had a perfectly good playground....and then the grownups moved in......the monkey bars. The monkey bars came in....we lost 124 kids in one day."