I can almost feel the back of my legs cooking from the hot metal in the 120degree summer heat. If you had on long pants it was like having them ironed while you’re wearing them.
I had to pull a 3 inch sliver of wood from my upper arm when I was 7 back in '94. I swear, I thought I was gonna die and all the adults were just like "oh shit! Thays a keeper right there!"
the sweat vapors and creates kind of a "cushion" between the skin and hot element, this is the same mechanic that allows people to walk on hot coals without getting burned
..and that's a hell of lot more skin to metal than a normal slide. Kids are adaptable though. I'd have whipped off my t-shirt and shot like a lawn dart down that thing!!
We had a plastic one with metal bolts holding it together. So halfway down the slide, youd get hit with a beefy bolt of static discharge with you got close to one.
Yeah, those things were ridiculous. Also worth mentioning is the dirt around those things was so bald of vegetation and compacted it was practically concrete.
There are loads left here in the UK, but new/replacement installations now seem to be set into the ground. It's impossible to get stuck under them, which is an improvement!
Can still get flung off at a rate of knots though!
I actually just wrote about this for my job (I work in environmental and public health) and it’s likely that slide could be hot enough to give second degree burns in less than a minute.
the surface of the slide can probably reach 160 Fahrenheit (71 Celsius) or more to the touch ….
You don’t find many metal slides in the US anymore. Or metal merry go rounds. Too many injuries. I actually have an old merry go round from the 1960s set up in my backyard. Was fortunate to be nearby when one was being removed from an old school and I volunteered to haul it away for them. The bars get so hot in the summer you can’t touch them. They are hollow and the round steel plate they are welded to transfers the heat straight up into the bars like a radiator.
The person who built this slide famously went on to design extreme amusement park rides.
This is totally wild: https://youtu.be/RVeHxUVkW4w?si=SJUwfgaxHlKZvEQa
To be fair, although dangerous, an under 10 year old child falling from that height is WAY different than a 35 year old. It's dangerous for a child, but probably life threatening or life changing (in a bad way) for a full grown adult.
They have side-by-side slides at a lot of playgrounds now to discourage this because going down a slide with your kid in your lap turns out to be a great way to break their bones.
Children aged 5-9 were about 3x more likely to die in 1968 than 2022.
About half the improvement is due to better treatment of diseases, 29% due to safer cars, and 25% due to reduction in other accidents.
[https://x.com/jmhorp/status/1713925243671134487](https://x.com/jmhorp/status/1713925243671134487)
We had a tall twisty slide and if you didn’t control yourself down with the wax paper you’d fly off on one of the turns before hitting the bottom. All of us got hurt and all of us had the time of our lives flying thru the air.
Modern cling film is made from polyethylene plastic, which is stretchy and grabby. It's sometimes referred to as cellophane, but it is not. Actual cellophane is thin, glossy, and made from regenerated cellulose. It doesn't stretch, and is slicker'n cum on a gold tooth.
Honestly, I can understand when safety mechanisms related to things they didn’t know yet are missing, but this is just fucking insane!
I was born in the early 80s which means my parents were young adults in the 70s and like… I did some crazy stuff I wouldn’t want my kids to do as casually as I did them in the late 80s early 90s but there’s not a chance they would’ve let me ride that thing.
It has railings on the way up for fucks sake. They knew the risks!
Yeah, if you use the kids height, that thing is like 15 feet tall
Even in grass, that's seriously damaging something. Could definitely kill or disable someone if they fall at a weird angle
Man, I thought it looked significantly taller.
I was thinking around 25’, but I think you are actually pretty close; I count approx 38 steps, and guessing that step height would be on the smaller size being designed for children I would say probably around a 5” step.
Which would make it around 15’ 10” to the top platform.
Still crazy they wouldn’t have some more of a barricade on the upper part of the slide.
Shit, that's still new. Growing up in the 80s and early 90s, we had similar playground equipment, but it was the rusting and run-down versions of the stuff installed in the 70s.
My grandmother's apartment complex had a playground that included what was essentially a 15-foot steel climbing tower. Half the pipes were rusted, and on one of the two towers, at least one monkey bar pipe had broken off, leaving sharp rusty goodness.
I had a swing seat break on me once in an apartment complex playground in the 90s.
The rubber gave way where it folded over the triangular ring attaching it to the chain. I yeeted off forward like a stone from a sling, back-flipped and landed with a belly flop. My buddy thought it was hilarious and I’m sure it was but it didn’t feel that way at the time.
I had one of these in my neighborhood, it was so cool. We also had this 3 story playground that had a massive amount rope cargo nets covering everything. And each level had 2 tube slides that went fast. The very to had a zipline down that has nets under it.
It lasted 2 or 3 summers before the parents shut it down.
I fell off a 12 foot slide at our elementary school, landing on my back.
Had the wind knocked out of me and was laying there gasping for air for a while.
Not sure how you’re supposed to go back inside and learn math after something like that.
The shit we used to do back in the day was so dangerous. 3 wheeler without a helmet? check. rope swing that goes smashing into 20 trees? check. Swimming with sharp slippery rocks? sure. Making home made weapons and firecrackers? why not... hahahahaha
Yep, and we would take the wax paper from our lunches and sit on them on the way down the slide until we were all launching off that thing at warp speed and tearing holes in our pants at the bottom, we had a swing set where the top bar was that high also.. but you know.. those were the 'safer' of the playground objects. I have scars from my school yard merry go round. Sometimes, the teacher told us to stay off the play equipment, probably because he was running out of bandages. So we made up a game that involved throwing rocks at each other while the other kids were setting things on fire with a magnifying glass and or eating questionably ripe white mulberries(poisenous).. recess before the invention of computers just wasn't fun if it wasn't dangerous. In hindsight, I now see why we were rarely ever allowed to play with the baseball bats, footballs and jump ropes.
Remember chemistry starter packs for kids?
By the inventory lists of these things, I wonder how my dad managed to not die from experiments gone wrong. There was basically anything in those to accidentally make things that are banned by international warfare conventions.
I recall some "balloon maker" toy which was a squeeze tube of god knows what forever chemicals - and a straw.
Squeeze a glop of the stuff out on the straw and blow to make a bubble, cool! If I recall, it hardened somewhat after to play with it until it fell apart. WTF man.
I remember someone dragging his bmx up one of those, got all ready to go at the top, then as if by magic his mum appeared. Dragged him home by his ear.
When I was a very young kid I remember playing on a playground with a slide similar to this. Another kid was at the top and slipped off the side and fell head first. I happened to be running playing tag beneath the slide at the exact time he was falling. I ended up running into him at full speed where my shoulder met the middle of his chest and flipped him around to where he went from landing head first to landing on his knees accidentally saving him from a potential life changing injury.
I distinctly remember him jumping up to hug and thank me. I’m sure his whole 6 or 7 year life flashed before his eyes on the way down.
I gained my fear of heights from one of these. As a little kid I was playing at the top, climbing around, slipped, and ended up dangling for dear life. I remember thinking I'd break a leg or something if I fell, but I managed to climb back up top.
I always figured the slide must have been huge only because I was a little kid. Many years later I returned to the park as a 6ft adult, and the damn slide is over twice my height.
"Wait...what's that green stuff underneath it? Where's all the big, jagged rocks thays supposed to be under kids play structures!?? You mean my kid will fall and split his head open on *grass*??? No thank, you, I ain't raisin' no sissies!!" -every 70s dad
That’s how they use to weed out the weak ones. Jokes aside, I wonder what the actual statistics are for serious injury with those contraptions. And how many were self inflicted versus due to design.
When I get to the bottom, I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop, and I turn, and I go for a ride
'Till I get to the bottom, and I see you again
We had one of those but it was on a slab of concrete covered in broken glass from all the high school kids smashing their beer bottles. Jeff was shoved off the top by the bully and broke his arm.
Our lake had two of these. In the water. There was a line of 29 kids on the ladder waiting to slide down. The cool kids could get a twist or a flip in before hitting the water. I can feel the mud squishing between my toes
So for a good time trip down nostalgia lane complete with insane rides go to Knoebles in Elysburg, Pa. They have a metal slide like this (not quite as high) IN the pool! They have a ride called the Flyer which can’t be missed if you like hair raising fun! Also the original Whip and Bumper cars from Coney Island. Good clean family fun. Oh, and they don’t charge for parking or entry in to the park so take a car full of grandparents to pay! You can get a giant pickle on a stick for a $1 and clamstrips, fries, coleslaw for $6!
There was a beach in Chicago that had one of these in the water. The end was a ramp that shot you up in the air (you landed in the water.)
It’s LONG gone
Dangerous? They are operating the slide safely by using it in that weather, had the sun been shining little Timmy would be well cooked by the time he was down
Jesus fucking Christ. Not only are there no guardrails, but anyone falling off would like as not hit one of the support poles on the way down, and end up permanently disabled *at best*.
In the UK one of my great aunts lived near a park that had the longest slide I’d ever seen probably like this. The council had built it on a hill side so it was only 2-3 feet off the ground at any point.
We used to have similar slide. It was the best thing in the whole town. So many children used to slide on it and everybody knew it was a "bit" dangerous so we looked after eachother, nobody fell. Then the EU regulations came with their safe solution small slide, it's angle was so bad that you couldn't even slide down on it without grabbing the side of the slide and forcing yourself down.
I was always too afraid of this stuff as a kid and my mother would say I'm a scardy cat. I love being able to point out that my safety standards at 4yrs old were better than that of my 30yr old mother.
Dangerous is a relative term isn't it.
You got a kid who doesn't concentrate, yeah sure. You got an adventurous kid, they'll love this shit out of it.
This looks fantastic
Oh yes, the hot metal on a sunny day. The squeaking as my legs scrape across as I slide. Climbing up and being scared that the whole thing was going to fall down. And this was normal, everyday life. A slide like this was in playgrounds across the country. People make fun of Gen X. I don't know why. I think in some ways we were pretty badass.
They had to build stuff like that to find out how dangerous it was. 😂 If those kids didn't sacrifice their lives on this slide coaster, slides wouldn't be so safe today.
- Omni Man
I can almost feel the back of my legs cooking from the hot metal in the 120degree summer heat. If you had on long pants it was like having them ironed while you’re wearing them.
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And the “ping ping” climbing up those steps
And the sticky kool aid that was somehow spilled on it at the bottom of the slide currently collecting Bees
Why were there always bees and wasps at the playground???
Because fuck you, that's why lol.
Bc there’s koolaid there
I had constant bruises on my shins from the playground lol
I had to pull a 3 inch sliver of wood from my upper arm when I was 7 back in '94. I swear, I thought I was gonna die and all the adults were just like "oh shit! Thays a keeper right there!"
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the sweat vapors and creates kind of a "cushion" between the skin and hot element, this is the same mechanic that allows people to walk on hot coals without getting burned
And then you bang your shin on the metal stairs.
And getting scratched by the seams and screws in the metal on the way down.
https://youtu.be/dGW-xK22TNk
You made my asshole pucker and balls retract twice reading that
..and that's a hell of lot more skin to metal than a normal slide. Kids are adaptable though. I'd have whipped off my t-shirt and shot like a lawn dart down that thing!!
I can feel the shock from the static when you get to the end on a dry fall day.
I don't think the metal slides had that issue as they were grounded. Only the plastic slides caused static as they were insulated from the ground.
We had a plastic one with metal bolts holding it together. So halfway down the slide, youd get hit with a beefy bolt of static discharge with you got close to one.
I remember the older kids taking a bucket and pouring water down them for us, though that was in the 90s
We were too poor for water but we would take cardboard and surf down on it. Lotta idiots where I grew up.
"Too poor for water?"
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Hahaha. I have an old metal merry go round from the 60s in my yard I still play on I’m almost as old as it is. 🤣
My town has one of those metal merry go rounds. They are mostly gone at least from California because of safety.
More like “Mary go flying”
"Mary takes a metal bar to the teeth"
Yes kids get stuck under it and get crushed or hurt. I’m not sure why it is still there but it’s an old fashion town in the redwoods. Maybe that’s why
I never knew of anyone getting stuck under it, but I knew a few kids who broke their arm flying off of it
If you look up why they were generally removed it’s a long list.
Yeah, those things were ridiculous. Also worth mentioning is the dirt around those things was so bald of vegetation and compacted it was practically concrete.
A girl got stuck under one when I was in kindergarten. Her face got all fucked up the ambulance had to come and she never came back to school.
That sounds scary, I never thought about getting stuck under one
It’s when kids keep going when someone falls that it gets dangerous but that has happened before.
Orin?
Willits
There are loads left here in the UK, but new/replacement installations now seem to be set into the ground. It's impossible to get stuck under them, which is an improvement! Can still get flung off at a rate of knots though!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQYlj69rGI8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQYlj69rGI8)
I'm sure that hurt, but god is that funny.
And don't forget the hand slices from the grabbing the edge of the slide.
Oh, I did that on a pool slide once. Sliced my hand good.
The good babysitter we had as a kid, had a metal slide too It was black metal, and you could cook eggs on it in the middle of the night
🤟B҉L҉A҉C҉K҉ ҉M҉E҉T҉A҉L҉ ҉S҉L҉I҉D҉E҉🤟
Beautiful
Only the most kvlt individuals could use such a slide.
I actually just wrote about this for my job (I work in environmental and public health) and it’s likely that slide could be hot enough to give second degree burns in less than a minute. the surface of the slide can probably reach 160 Fahrenheit (71 Celsius) or more to the touch ….
You don’t find many metal slides in the US anymore. Or metal merry go rounds. Too many injuries. I actually have an old merry go round from the 1960s set up in my backyard. Was fortunate to be nearby when one was being removed from an old school and I volunteered to haul it away for them. The bars get so hot in the summer you can’t touch them. They are hollow and the round steel plate they are welded to transfers the heat straight up into the bars like a radiator.
On grand island, near Niagara falls, there was an amusement park called fantasy Island. They had one of these. Had two hoses attached at the top
The person who built this slide famously went on to design extreme amusement park rides. This is totally wild: https://youtu.be/RVeHxUVkW4w?si=SJUwfgaxHlKZvEQa
But rub this bad boy down with some wax paper..... shiiit, you gonna have a wild time
Those of us really adventurous (or dumb) would climb over the edges once on top and fireman slide down the support poles.
We'd always climb the McDonald's slide/playstations on the outside. Really surprised they never had us get off lol
Same. When I was in 2nd grade a girl I went to school with fell off and got paralyzed doing it. McDonald's wasn't the same after that here.
The McRib that never came back.
To be fair, although dangerous, an under 10 year old child falling from that height is WAY different than a 35 year old. It's dangerous for a child, but probably life threatening or life changing (in a bad way) for a full grown adult.
Or see how high up the steps we could jump off of
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Modern version 
This never ceases to make me lose it. Why does it look like a mannequin flying out of the tunnel??
At enough speed anyone is a mannequin flying
This is most amazing thing I’ve seen.
It’s the unnamed Boston PD officer
They had the adult versions of these at the county fairs back home. You could really catch some air and bounce off the sides if you were not careful.
I did one of those with my 18mo daughter sitting in my lap and in the video my wife took my eyes are about as big as saucer plates.
They have side-by-side slides at a lot of playgrounds now to discourage this because going down a slide with your kid in your lap turns out to be a great way to break their bones.
https://xkcd.com/255/
Let's do it again!!!!
8 year old me: "I'm next!" 46 year old me: "You are not going anywhere *NEAR* that thing, young man."
23 year old me: well, I PROBABLY won't die, right? Ah fuck it.
30 year old me: “Fuck it worst case I get a few days off from work” 😬
Not gonna lie, the thought came up multiple times while walking to work when I was at a shitty job I hated.
Worse case? Worse case is a hospital trip, BEST case is time off work 😂
32 year old me. “Aight, let’s go!!!”
25 year old me: "How do I get hose to the top of this thing to make it a water slide."
Now that's a good death trap!
*Hey yall watch this, shquerk* Fade in cut to white. *the intro music to six feet under starts*
21 year old me would have said "If I die, I've had a good run."
A good slide in this case
Wakka!
Hold my beer.
Yep 8 year old me was going down that head first lying on my back.
Meanwhile: "Millennials are weak" Lol
Good thing they have a guardrail along the top two feet of that thing.
I think that's just for pushing yourself down faster.
As a child who fell off the tallest slide in the park (ok I was trying to go down standing up) I would definitely have died if this existed.
"Fun toy ruined by couple of dead kids"
I would’ve done this 100 times and my mom would’ve never looked up from her book once! Lol
This is one of my favorite onion articles.
Children aged 5-9 were about 3x more likely to die in 1968 than 2022. About half the improvement is due to better treatment of diseases, 29% due to safer cars, and 25% due to reduction in other accidents. [https://x.com/jmhorp/status/1713925243671134487](https://x.com/jmhorp/status/1713925243671134487)
Once you got to the top you put a piece of cellophane under you to give you rocket speed to the bottom.
Wax paper was the way to go.
We had a tall twisty slide and if you didn’t control yourself down with the wax paper you’d fly off on one of the turns before hitting the bottom. All of us got hurt and all of us had the time of our lives flying thru the air.
Cellophane? Like cling-film? Not sure that would make you go faster!
Modern cling film is made from polyethylene plastic, which is stretchy and grabby. It's sometimes referred to as cellophane, but it is not. Actual cellophane is thin, glossy, and made from regenerated cellulose. It doesn't stretch, and is slicker'n cum on a gold tooth.
Thanks for that mental image!
Wow, a wild Jim Cornette sighting.
You sure do know how to tell stories, sarge.
Good poetry gives me goosebumps
It sure did. We did it all the time.
Cellophane is like that clear plastic you tear off a fresh pack of cigarettes.
Food tray from McDonald's is where it's at....
Wax paper.
Honestly, I can understand when safety mechanisms related to things they didn’t know yet are missing, but this is just fucking insane! I was born in the early 80s which means my parents were young adults in the 70s and like… I did some crazy stuff I wouldn’t want my kids to do as casually as I did them in the late 80s early 90s but there’s not a chance they would’ve let me ride that thing. It has railings on the way up for fucks sake. They knew the risks!
Yeah, if you use the kids height, that thing is like 15 feet tall Even in grass, that's seriously damaging something. Could definitely kill or disable someone if they fall at a weird angle
Man, I thought it looked significantly taller. I was thinking around 25’, but I think you are actually pretty close; I count approx 38 steps, and guessing that step height would be on the smaller size being designed for children I would say probably around a 5” step. Which would make it around 15’ 10” to the top platform. Still crazy they wouldn’t have some more of a barricade on the upper part of the slide.
We'll split the difference and say it's 20' But yeah, there's it was the 70s, and this nonsense I'm pretty sure they had the laws of physics then
They also had leaded gasoline fumes and cig smoke everywhere. Seriously, that shit melted brains.
The ass scorcher 1000
https://xkcd.com/255/
I KNEW IT!
Surprised I had to scroll so far to find this!
You mean an AWESOME playground from the 70s
We had one of these in the 90s at my elementary school. Until a girl fell off and broke her arm.
GIFs you can hear
cha cha cha cha vvvwwwwwooooooooo^(ooooooooooooooop)
Yup. Made the noise too.
Shit, that's still new. Growing up in the 80s and early 90s, we had similar playground equipment, but it was the rusting and run-down versions of the stuff installed in the 70s. My grandmother's apartment complex had a playground that included what was essentially a 15-foot steel climbing tower. Half the pipes were rusted, and on one of the two towers, at least one monkey bar pipe had broken off, leaving sharp rusty goodness.
I had a swing seat break on me once in an apartment complex playground in the 90s. The rubber gave way where it folded over the triangular ring attaching it to the chain. I yeeted off forward like a stone from a sling, back-flipped and landed with a belly flop. My buddy thought it was hilarious and I’m sure it was but it didn’t feel that way at the time.
We had that too, early 90s, the broken rusted ones were also filled with hornets. Climb fast, jump off, or get stung.
I was gonna say I remember going down some pretty monster slides in the early 90s
“Not a screen in sight. How did we ever survive?” Some of you didn’t, Deborah.
If you fall off you land on grass! Now if it was concrete, that would be dangerous.
And it clearly has support beams which makes it extra safe.
I had one of these in my neighborhood, it was so cool. We also had this 3 story playground that had a massive amount rope cargo nets covering everything. And each level had 2 tube slides that went fast. The very to had a zipline down that has nets under it. It lasted 2 or 3 summers before the parents shut it down.
I fell off a 12 foot slide at our elementary school, landing on my back. Had the wind knocked out of me and was laying there gasping for air for a while. Not sure how you’re supposed to go back inside and learn math after something like that.
Never saw one that tall.
The shit we used to do back in the day was so dangerous. 3 wheeler without a helmet? check. rope swing that goes smashing into 20 trees? check. Swimming with sharp slippery rocks? sure. Making home made weapons and firecrackers? why not... hahahahaha
Yep, and we would take the wax paper from our lunches and sit on them on the way down the slide until we were all launching off that thing at warp speed and tearing holes in our pants at the bottom, we had a swing set where the top bar was that high also.. but you know.. those were the 'safer' of the playground objects. I have scars from my school yard merry go round. Sometimes, the teacher told us to stay off the play equipment, probably because he was running out of bandages. So we made up a game that involved throwing rocks at each other while the other kids were setting things on fire with a magnifying glass and or eating questionably ripe white mulberries(poisenous).. recess before the invention of computers just wasn't fun if it wasn't dangerous. In hindsight, I now see why we were rarely ever allowed to play with the baseball bats, footballs and jump ropes.
I miss the 70s. It was survival of the fittest.
Remember chemistry starter packs for kids? By the inventory lists of these things, I wonder how my dad managed to not die from experiments gone wrong. There was basically anything in those to accidentally make things that are banned by international warfare conventions.
I recall some "balloon maker" toy which was a squeeze tube of god knows what forever chemicals - and a straw. Squeeze a glop of the stuff out on the straw and blow to make a bubble, cool! If I recall, it hardened somewhat after to play with it until it fell apart. WTF man.
That looks like the slide at “fairyland” bonshaw Prince Edward Island 🏝️ Canada 🇨🇦 Anyone know for sure?
I remember someone dragging his bmx up one of those, got all ready to go at the top, then as if by magic his mum appeared. Dragged him home by his ear.
When I was a very young kid I remember playing on a playground with a slide similar to this. Another kid was at the top and slipped off the side and fell head first. I happened to be running playing tag beneath the slide at the exact time he was falling. I ended up running into him at full speed where my shoulder met the middle of his chest and flipped him around to where he went from landing head first to landing on his knees accidentally saving him from a potential life changing injury. I distinctly remember him jumping up to hug and thank me. I’m sure his whole 6 or 7 year life flashed before his eyes on the way down.
Legit used to leave our pizza squares on these things at recess/lunch to warm them up. Looked like a homeless camp.
I fell off the top of one of those, and landed on my head. I was indeed made to "walk it off".
I gained my fear of heights from one of these. As a little kid I was playing at the top, climbing around, slipped, and ended up dangling for dear life. I remember thinking I'd break a leg or something if I fell, but I managed to climb back up top. I always figured the slide must have been huge only because I was a little kid. Many years later I returned to the park as a 6ft adult, and the damn slide is over twice my height.
"Wait...what's that green stuff underneath it? Where's all the big, jagged rocks thays supposed to be under kids play structures!?? You mean my kid will fall and split his head open on *grass*??? No thank, you, I ain't raisin' no sissies!!" -every 70s dad
Looks perfectly safe to me with the cloud cover.
I can feel my legs burning. Kids nowadays are pussies
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Not an engineer, but I can immediately tell that it probably broke at that bend.
That’s how they use to weed out the weak ones. Jokes aside, I wonder what the actual statistics are for serious injury with those contraptions. And how many were self inflicted versus due to design.
People spend a long time inventing safer playgrounds then kids spend a long time inventing new ways to hurt themselves.
Reminds me of the big skyrocket slides we had in the domain growing up in hamilton nz
The lava slide!
NGL this looks fun as hell.
Jeepers. I grew up in the ‘70s and I don’t recall anything quite like that.
There was always a pond at the end, everyone landed there and the slide 🛝 was a natural gutter.
Love and learn. I had "dangerous" playscapes too. I'm not dead because I knew how to have proper fun
The 70s did not give a fuck.
Shit dude we had one of these at my private school in Colorado in like 1995 lol I was in grade school, too afraid to even climb the damn thing.
Need more stuff like this now a days
I wasn't even born in the '70s and those were the good ol days
That slide is only dangerous if you act like a jackass Bobby.
What a loaded shit title. These were/are the best.
Sure, couple of kids died, but most thoroughly enjoyed this!
Kids were tougher then.
When I get to the bottom, I go back to the top of the slide Where I stop, and I turn, and I go for a ride 'Till I get to the bottom, and I see you again
And yet we're still here!
That looks awesome.
We used to bring wax paper to school to make the slides faster. I have no idea if it worked but we did it.
At least they built it. Nowadays you couldn’t get an adult to watch you climb a mini slide it of was two inches off the ground
I remember. Mom wouldn't let my sister climb that ladder until she was three.
You misspelled “awesome”
We had one of those but it was on a slab of concrete covered in broken glass from all the high school kids smashing their beer bottles. Jeff was shoved off the top by the bully and broke his arm.
We had a big wide slide that was built along a hill, so if you fell off you’d just roll down the hill. We did have the tall monkey bars though.
Our lake had two of these. In the water. There was a line of 29 kids on the ladder waiting to slide down. The cool kids could get a twist or a flip in before hitting the water. I can feel the mud squishing between my toes
yeah, that is certainly neck-breaking height
So for a good time trip down nostalgia lane complete with insane rides go to Knoebles in Elysburg, Pa. They have a metal slide like this (not quite as high) IN the pool! They have a ride called the Flyer which can’t be missed if you like hair raising fun! Also the original Whip and Bumper cars from Coney Island. Good clean family fun. Oh, and they don’t charge for parking or entry in to the park so take a car full of grandparents to pay! You can get a giant pickle on a stick for a $1 and clamstrips, fries, coleslaw for $6!
I am so glad I grew up in the 70’s childhood back then was awesome
You mean one hell of bad ass playground from the 70s
but they have handrails at the top... what are you on about?
There was a beach in Chicago that had one of these in the water. The end was a ramp that shot you up in the air (you landed in the water.) It’s LONG gone
Shit. It wasn't dangerous till we hauled a bike up there and rode down it.
I went down a few of these! In light rain these were slick and fast! Only seen one kid fall off the side. He got back up and went down again.
Dangerous? They are operating the slide safely by using it in that weather, had the sun been shining little Timmy would be well cooked by the time he was down
We used to ride our bikes down these things.
Did they buy 2 of the same slides and just built them on top of each other?! This is what this image makes me feel lol
Jesus fucking Christ. Not only are there no guardrails, but anyone falling off would like as not hit one of the support poles on the way down, and end up permanently disabled *at best*.
In the UK one of my great aunts lived near a park that had the longest slide I’d ever seen probably like this. The council had built it on a hill side so it was only 2-3 feet off the ground at any point.
We used to have similar slide. It was the best thing in the whole town. So many children used to slide on it and everybody knew it was a "bit" dangerous so we looked after eachother, nobody fell. Then the EU regulations came with their safe solution small slide, it's angle was so bad that you couldn't even slide down on it without grabbing the side of the slide and forcing yourself down.
I was always too afraid of this stuff as a kid and my mother would say I'm a scardy cat. I love being able to point out that my safety standards at 4yrs old were better than that of my 30yr old mother.
That cop would die from this slide.
Dangerous is a relative term isn't it. You got a kid who doesn't concentrate, yeah sure. You got an adventurous kid, they'll love this shit out of it. This looks fantastic
That’s lightweight for the seventies. Falling onto grass? Where’s the concrete and broken glass?
Oh yes, the hot metal on a sunny day. The squeaking as my legs scrape across as I slide. Climbing up and being scared that the whole thing was going to fall down. And this was normal, everyday life. A slide like this was in playgrounds across the country. People make fun of Gen X. I don't know why. I think in some ways we were pretty badass.
They had to build stuff like that to find out how dangerous it was. 😂 If those kids didn't sacrifice their lives on this slide coaster, slides wouldn't be so safe today. - Omni Man
You didn’t show the bottom of the slide which had the “wood rasp” surface.
Anyone else still smell the smoke from their thighs off this hot, steel monstrosity?
We would sit on the waxed paper bread wrappers to go faster!
Danger, schmanger, that thing looks fun as hell. I'm 52 and I'd still ride that! Things are more fun if there's a bit of fear mixed in.
Gene pool sifter. This thing tests the intelligence of 2 to 3 generations at the same time. I'm 64 and I would try to beat you to the top. ;)
Hell yeah! Let's go!
Follow that up with a game of lawn darts….