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Let me just tell you that the oldest millennials have turned 42 this year. And while we’re well aware of the fact we’re no kids, we don’t feel that ancient either. Dad jokes and cargo pants seem to be a boomer thing, but what if we’re not that far from them?

So today, my fellow millennials, we’re about to feel not just old, but ancient thanks to this walk down memory lane right back to our simpler and happier childhood days.

“The Ultimate '80s Page” Facebook page is a notorious source for nostalgia–inducing content, and below we wrapped up some of the best examples shared here. The page’s whopping 2.7M followers show just how much we all relate to the long gone days, and honestly, it’s no surprise.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Robin was such an amazing person. I want to cry anytime I see him or watch his movies, I miss him so much.

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Lauren McMenemy, a professional writer, journalist, and writing coach who runs workshops and training to help people get their words down right, told Bored Panda that the immediate thought when someone says "1980s" is the cliches: “neon, big hair, shoulder pads, power ballads. It was an era of multitudes.”

She commented: “There was indeed that break-out fun, bright and fluffy, everyone's excited angle - but there was also the ‘Greed is Good’ angle, the Wall Street tycoons, the money-at-all-costs which really started to dominate at this time (and still does).”

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John Harrison
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dear other generations: Just in case you forgot, we drank from garden hoses. Sincerely, GenX.

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Lauren argues that what was unique about the '80s - aka her childhood - “was the sense of adventure and exploration, particularly as technology started to infiltrate the home. It was the first era of home computing consoles, of Nintendo and Atari.” So for her, as a kid, it was the absolute best time.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I got to spin the wheel once (relative works for CBS & he was giving us a backstage tour). It's *really* heavy.

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Since the '80s style, from clothing to music, has been coming back to fashion in recent years, we asked Lauren why she thinks this bygone era has this enduring appeal.

Lauren believes that there isn't anything unique about the '80s that's driving this comeback. “As humans, we are inherently nostalgic, and there seems to be a trend that we go back every 30 and/or 50 years.”

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In fact, Lauren argues, “in the '80s, we were obsessed with the '50s. In the '90s, it was the '60s, and so on. It's a long enough time-lapse that we can remember things with rose-tinted glasses.”

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Mimi La Souris
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

and it is resistant, since the 70s, we are in the 4th generation to play with, still works "Ding!" !

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to be a smoker, still hated people smoking where I was eating back then.

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We also asked Lauren what’s her favorite '80s thing, and she said it’s “Back to the Future. Hands down, my favorite movie ever. And you get the double whammy of '80s and '50s nostalgia, too!”

“I'm also partial to hair metal and power ballads; put on The Final Countdown by Europe and I'll sing at the top of my lungs,” she added.

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Ariom Dahl
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I recently went to a high school reunion. Those of us who are still alive are turning 75 this year. :)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We called the theatre phone number and listened to the recorded listings on repeat

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KJ
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My dads car had a hatch in the backseat that gave access to the boot, my dumbass would happily travel about in the boot with my head through the hatch.

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Weiss Denise
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'll can tell you, as the teacher writing on and teaching from an overhead projector, that thing gave off massive amounts of heat! I pitied the kid sitting behind it.

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Ashley Schriber
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember when those were called "hard disks" and floppy disks were larger and literally floppy.

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VonBlade
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's good to be the King. (also shout out to my first ever crush, the Brazilian Bombshell herself, Cleo Rocos)

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Geoffrey Scott
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe, but Ford has had a spontaneous combustion issue WAY before Tesla. Think it started with the Windstar

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Michelle M
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

“I have little feet because nothing grows in the shade.” - Dolly Parton Don’t you just love her. And here’s a cheesy joke. Q. How can you spot Dolly's children in a crowd? A. They're the ones with stretch marks round their mouths.

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KJ
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All of them had to be checked for any coins left in the coin return slot, you never know!

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Louisa Johnson
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah we had some, bloody horrific seeing them again. Somethings you don't need reminding of

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is this American? I think the UK equivalent is chip paper and those foam ceiling tiles!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"UUUUUUPPPPP next it's COUPLE'S skate!!! Grab your sweetheart and head to the floor!!!!" ::: Every middle schooler::::: immediately skates to the exit

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OMFG! I got this toy and I loved it I was convinced that I was going to be a fashion designer. I'm not.

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KJ
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Brilliant movie and songs, Sir Didymus and his noble steed are still my favourite characters.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

By the time I was a kid we were playing Cruisin' USA. We earned those book-it pizzas.

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Kate Jones
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lol it's true. There was a point where everything had to be see-through so we can see the workings inside. Phones, toys, etc.

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Cassi Lyris
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh shiiiiiiii a Kidtopia Park?! I once climbed one of those spires. Had some random adult screaming at me for it, so I got down. 🤣 I didn't want to get my new random "friend" in trouble with their mom. Oh my mom? Yeah, she wasn't there. She dropped me and my sister's off at like, 11am. She'd be back around 3. She finally showed up around 4. Great day, honestly.

Id row
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You came home with so many splinters it looked like you wrestled with a group of porcupines.

Upstaged75
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mom is an artist and our wooden playground had murals she painted all over it. The coolest one was Medusa hiding inside a castle. It was sad when they had to tear it down.

MrsFettesVette
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is a whole story behind the company that designed and helped build them- how they developed the fundraising process, how they got communities involved in them. I read an in-depth article about it that would be fascinating to any 80s kid; I believe there was a documentary in the works about it. I will try to find some helpful links for my fellow 80s kids and edit to add them if I can

Luis'GF
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This was is the rich neighborhoods. Our playgrounds were steel. Burnt your A*S in the summertime. Lots of rust! But fun!

Grudge-holding Treefrog
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My elementary school had a mini one of these. Many a battle were fought over the highest spot

Nicoll Cope
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ours had slides on different levels, and there were several broken bones from us trying to walk down the top of the enclosed slides. At least they put down wood chips, because falling flat on sand was enough to knock the air out of you... wood chips at least gave a little bit of a cushion. We also had the big long monkey bars, and Americam Gladiators had just started, so lots of gladiator fights happened there.

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Samantha
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's one of these two minutes from my house. It's actually about to be torn down and replaced with something safer, but some of the locals were talking about having a sit-in to stop demolition.

Celtic Pirate Queen
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There was one at the local park when my son was little. It was half castle, half pirate ship. It was f*cking awesome!

Anthony winn
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is this Martha rivers park? Or are we in a simulation where all castle playgrounds are the same.

Justin Trouble
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My school never had anything like this just asphalt under steel monkey bars and a steel slide.

Robert Beveridge
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's still one near my son's place. We spent probably three entire summers there...

Robert Skinner
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember the pirate ship the 60 ft slide and the used tire pyramid

majandess
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We live in the house we do because this is right down the hill! My son was so excited to move to the playground house.

CORGI QUEEN
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

still i am 13 and i know of these, i went on my 6th birthday to one in a batgirl outfit and met a guy my age wearing a batman outfit, friends forever!.......................until i had to go

Lynn Morello
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those were the good ones, we had the Steel ones with NO SAFETY RAILS

Sue Kozin
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is that the Indian Boundry playground? I helped build one in the late '80s. I worked the 5 days it took to build the playground at Indian Boundry. Whole families worked together and when the opening speeches were finished and the ribbon cut, we all climbed over the finished playground. A true neighborhood project in West Rogers Park, Chicago.

Laura Mortensen
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We had a small one at the park at the end of our block. They took it down after homeless guys starting using it as a toilet.

Riley Quinn
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We had a large asphalt surface butted up along a larger, empty area of hardpacked dirt surrounded by chain link fencing. My primary school got their playground design from a prison yard I guess.

Baali Venomax
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nope, never used that. Mom didnt even like me using the swing that Dad built in the back garden because if you went up high enough, the supports would lift partially out of the ground from momentum. Never collapsed on me though.

Barbara Ryan
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Splinters! I removed so many splinters from my kids knees, hands, butt. They loved these playgrounds.

Bobby Sammons
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My kids loved one of those that was in Alamogordo, NM. They both cried when it burned up one night.

Heidi Nicholas
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These are still around. There's one in my town. We never go play on it because it's where all the highschool kids go to do things, but it's still there.

Mother of Dragons
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Moved to a new town and found one of these playgrounds fully functional lol I took my kids every chance I had so I could play too!!!

Xray0976
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's a park near me that has a playground just like this! Fort Fraser in Fraser, MI!!

StitchIsCuteAndFluffy
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m 17 and I still love playgrounds! I WANNA KNOW WHERE THIS IS! I WANNA LIVE HERE!

Christian Dyson
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm thirteen and I think these are way better than the ones we have now.

EP
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Omg for me these were the nice playgrounds. I always was excited when we could go to one.

D3v1lD0ll
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We had one built at my Sturbridge, MA elementary school that we designed in a brain-storming session followed by a school vote. We spent months collecting "Pennies from Heaven" in empty milk cartons to do our part, as we kids were challenged to gather enough pennies to cover the gym floor to "pay" for the playground. I'm sure that there had been additional grants, donations, etc. to cover the cost, but my 9-year-old self totally bought into the "mission" and puffed with pride in our accomplishment. Once the ceremony marking the end of fundraising (I e., making a big show of spreading out pennies over the gym floor) was finished, I was able to join the local civic groups in hammering nails and spreading sand there between my school hours over the course of two weeks, allowing me to feel like my young self had been a part of designing, paying for and building something magical that would be there for many years to come. This is one of my very favorite memories.

DrLivingstonipresume
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Spiders, splinters, and the world's entire population of yellow jackets. There is still one in existence in Tomah, Wisconsin...it was swarming with yellow jackets

David
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A local park playground has more of less this - installed pretty recently. It's a bit more modern but same general idea with lots of wooden structure to climb around on. Stuff like the slides are plastic.

Brandi VanSteenwyk
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There was still one nearby -- and in darned good shape -- to me up until about 3 years ago. It was "The Castle" and so much fun. The plastic behemoth in it's place will never achieve such status.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

we literally *still* have a park like this a short drive away from my home and it's still one of the best (and bee infested) playgrounds I've ever played on

Abrufal
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was lucky enough to catch the tail end of wooden playgrounds....they got ride of them all when I was a teenager. Nothing has ever come close to these glorious splinter and bee infested heavens

ravn
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hmmm...that's some mighty odd-looking asphalt on the ground there...

Alicia M
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember happily running my hand along the rail one day...right over a wasp.

Falcon on Dizzy
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

my old school had 2 of em, got taken down as they were 2 stories or so tall and kids could fall off em

Lori Fuqua
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I miss it so, it was the best part of going to my one family reunion I was 18-19 the year we got there and it was gone, I was so sad, it was huge and always had fun running through it and climbing up into top part of tower

RafCo (he/him/ele)
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These are still around. The elementary school in Chestnut Hill (a neighborhood in Philadelphia) has an awesome one.

Ozymandias73
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ahhh the injuries from these houses of pain and fun. And we kept on going after brushing off the dirt not giving the scrape, bruise, or whatever a second thought.

Susan
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My elementary had one wooden playground and one metal (colorful) playground. EVERYONE knew the wooden one was the best and would beg the teachers to take us to that one.

Gwyndall
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember when a bunch of volunteers built one like this at our school! It was a-maz-ing!

lauracubitt050183
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Super market close to town still has one of these!! And pretty much health and safety is the parent or group of parents who arrived together yelling their kids names every time an accident had or will happen. Nothing says parenthood quite like having a mums a**e hanging out of a wooden hut blocking the queue for the slide whilst trying to convince their child the floor is not real lava, it's just a game and it's safe to go down - no prizes for guessing what I was doing earlier today! 😂

Lynn Gracie-Rogers
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I worked one long day in our community to build one of these back in 1990! Hit myself in the head really hard on one of the bridges that day because it was THISCLOSE to being my exact height. It wasn’t. I took my two daughters to play here for 10 years until we moved to a different town.

Jk
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This actually half burned down a while back because of arson, but was completely rebuilt by volunteers. It's located in High Park, Toronto.

Amberlie Mikelsen
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Blisters, splinters, burned legs, and bruises; these things were daily occurrences if you had one of these with a metal slide in your local park/playground. We were lucky that our playground kept the wasps out of it.

SkekVi
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

god I miss playgrounds. proper ones. proper big ones not just a single sad little playstructure in the middle of an open field.

Thomas Hunt, Jr.
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Never seen anything like it. Was this a popular thing in cities or something?

MeggoTheSteggo
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They just replaced the one I grew up on with plastic, I feel old and sad

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember the day they replaced the blackboards in my school with whiteboards (2001)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was the opposite. "Dad, I can swim!" *takes armbands off* *has to be fished out from under the water*

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A lot of my pants cut off around the ankles because I have long legs. I still rock these bad boys.

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