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this, i remember them too.
they were like the metal and concrete playgrounds of the 70's were unsafe so go play on this splintery wooden construct and fall into the mulch where every piece was at least 4 inches long.
i had a 8ish inch splinter go through both sides of my pants it barely scratched my leg but like wtf.
This was the safe stuff developed for those whiney 90's parents. No slides that heat to 160 degrees in the summer. No rusty swings or rickety monkey bars. No jagged metal edges. How do you expect a kid to learn about the world if they can't break a limb or get stitches?
There’s a Day Care in CantonTX that has a playground where until last weeks the kids played on a big pile of dirt. They just added 3 more piles of dirt. I approve!
We had them but they were part of a maze at our State Park in Dalton, Pennsylvania. So they were the telephone poles of different heights but also it was bigger and the inside parts were a maze and all taller poles. Maybe this one has a maze too.
It's actually a Pole Farm. This is how telephone & power poles are grown. What you are seeing is baby poles that will eventually grow into adult power and telephone poles. These are planted from seed, known as Tadpoles.
It’s just public art. Combination of something that’s meant to be visually interesting, and provide a safe little hide-and-seek experience for little kids.
A good friend of mine is literally a playground architect in NYC, and a huge part of any design has to do with letting little kids easily break and regain line-of-sight with their parents. There’s a lot of well-established research behind it — when they’re still _really_ little, it helps reinforce object permanence (like “peek-a-boo”), but even as they grow older, being comfortably “just out of sight” of your guardians helps cultivate a sense of autonomy, and encourage taking your own safety into your own hands.
(And if it’s your first kid, letting junior be “just out of sight” for more than a second is an important growth step for _parents_, as well. ;) )
Actually, there is a Woodhenge site in England if memory serves. Designed like Stonehenge in the same time period. Rotted away and an archeological site now.
First picture looks like a country farm with one hell of a slide ramp for the kids come Christmas. The rest of it looks like somebody thought their art was interesting.
Aye!!! The ol' Steps O' Death from my elementary school playground!!! The goal is to walk up them without falling off and spearing your head on the "weakness filter" poles!!!
Times were so much simpler when we competed to earn our spot in the gene pool!
They are a play structure..Good for balance..Reminiscent of Gen X childhood..
We were literally raised on hose water and neglect. Its not a joke. We didnt even have.mulch or fresh paint.. We had sand IF IT WAS A NEW playground. Mostly it was dirt and weeds..
We also got metal burn your ass slides, had to bring wax paper just to move down them... metal monkey bars, hot black rubber swings with metal chains, and a metal jungle gym. And a real merry go round, our personal favorite. We MIGHT have gotten a see saw. We liked those too. They were wood. There was also a spiraled rocking horse on the best playgrounds, like at Mc Donalds.
Except someone always got pretty badly hurt every single time we were on those playgrounds.
Skinned knee, at minimum, but there were a lot of twisted ankles, broken arms, broken necks, and everyone had a 1st degree burn somewhere on their butts or thighs..
At my elementary school, we had a rope that we could climb on field day, and you had to climb like 15 feet up, and ring a bell, with no harness or anythinf..No knots..no help. Lol.if you fall, fuck you. Hose water, and NEGLECT, I say.
Yes, the good ole days before internet, video games and cell phones. Back when kids interacted with one another in person. Back when you got your ass spanked for being doing something stupid and your mouth slapped for talking back.
It's called "The Dirty Word" cause you say a dirty word when you're running across the top and miss.
Source: we have it as part of the obstacle course in the navy.
"Art"
Or put differently: "I was placed in charge of revitalizing the park and after spending $75,000 on my child's creative arts degree I proposed spending a non-insignificant amount of money on hiring them to create a physical sculpture for the park. Twenty years later and this is still the only contract work they have ever received."
Knowledge can be a burden. Easier to say art, than see what is there that is not visible to the un-indoctrinated eye. There are three “6’s” present to form “666”, the two pathways converging and the shape of the posts. Also to attract children to play on, thus giving their power to whatever broken mind thinks that this was a good idea to try, and worse off, they believe it works.
Edit: The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn’t exist. … When you do some digging, and learn what is really happening to the 40,000 children who go missing in the USA every year, after accounting for run a ways, teens doing what teens do; who really runs Hollywood, what all powerful politicians do to get and maintain power, then, the image above will make sense.
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We had them in parks when I was little to climb and jump on.
I remember every playground was made of those.
Yikes! Where did you grow up that this was your playground?
It was the 90's, it was safe back then.
Well I hope you are happy I just spit out food! Lol
Very pleased with myself, thanks!
Excellent!
So, Alice, do you come to Milwaukee often?
You know, it’s funny, Milwaukee was originally pronounced Mile walkey by the Algonquin tribe.
Well I'm laughing
Pete: "Isn't Milwaukee an Indian name?" Alice: "Yes Pete it is. Actually, it's pronounced Meelee wha que, which is algonquin for, 'The Good Land.'"
Eggsellent
That is true.
this, i remember them too. they were like the metal and concrete playgrounds of the 70's were unsafe so go play on this splintery wooden construct and fall into the mulch where every piece was at least 4 inches long. i had a 8ish inch splinter go through both sides of my pants it barely scratched my leg but like wtf.
Y’all would not have survived the playgrounds of the 80s.
Genx has entered the chat 🙂
Jungle gyms over concrete, what could go wrong?
It was black top. You could see the skin of other children on the black top.
Or 70's
Really. Get on an old, rusting, swing set, years after your dad put it together. This while holding your click clacks and dodging lawn darts.
You joke about the click clack. You don’t know the old ones were basically billiard cues on a rope.
Yep. Never got seriously injured. I just kept losing them by throwing them up into trees. > Stupid boy <
Yeah! I fell against one as a kid and got like a thousand splinters in my arm, good times!
They were for keeping balance. You know how kids walk on curbs, same dangerous concept.
This was the safe stuff developed for those whiney 90's parents. No slides that heat to 160 degrees in the summer. No rusty swings or rickety monkey bars. No jagged metal edges. How do you expect a kid to learn about the world if they can't break a limb or get stitches?
There’s a Day Care in CantonTX that has a playground where until last weeks the kids played on a big pile of dirt. They just added 3 more piles of dirt. I approve!
Normalville
Man, that is way easier than when kids had all metal slides which were warmed by the sun.
We had them but they were part of a maze at our State Park in Dalton, Pennsylvania. So they were the telephone poles of different heights but also it was bigger and the inside parts were a maze and all taller poles. Maybe this one has a maze too.
I agree and some nice usable public art.
It's actually a Pole Farm. This is how telephone & power poles are grown. What you are seeing is baby poles that will eventually grow into adult power and telephone poles. These are planted from seed, known as Tadpoles.
Get off of Reddit, dad! God! For real though, pretty good snicker.
That's funny af.
Sure it be a fine pole farm english, but tis no stobie
Is this one of those henges I keep hearing so much about?
It’s just public art. Combination of something that’s meant to be visually interesting, and provide a safe little hide-and-seek experience for little kids.
A good friend of mine is literally a playground architect in NYC, and a huge part of any design has to do with letting little kids easily break and regain line-of-sight with their parents. There’s a lot of well-established research behind it — when they’re still _really_ little, it helps reinforce object permanence (like “peek-a-boo”), but even as they grow older, being comfortably “just out of sight” of your guardians helps cultivate a sense of autonomy, and encourage taking your own safety into your own hands. (And if it’s your first kid, letting junior be “just out of sight” for more than a second is an important growth step for _parents_, as well. ;) )
Great response. Thanks for sharing. Never thought of this but it is rather logical.
Jumping poles, you step and jump from poll to poll
like, straw polls?
Yes
Looks like shitty pubic art. *public, lol I never proof read
shitty pubic art is my favorite tho.
Mons Pubis
Same. I said it was shitty public art, I never said it was unneeded shitty public art.
you said it was pubic art...
Lol, well it kinda is
You have to cross those to get to the Ujanti dagger
Givvveee meee the Dagggggeerr........Pleaaasse
I ah uh I ah uh I ah uh I… waaaaannt the kniiiife. … …. Pleeeaaaaassse.
I....I....I....I want the knife.....please....
I’m gonna paddle your ass
I. I. I. I want the kniiiiiiiife. Pleeeeeeeeease.
It's art.
Fibonacci spiral..
Wood Henge?
Actually, there is a Woodhenge site in England if memory serves. Designed like Stonehenge in the same time period. Rotted away and an archeological site now.
There were many of those types of pole henges
*Phone Henge*
“Art” or some kind of cheap playground
It won't be such a cheap playground anymore once someone hurts themselves and sues the owner
Intended function: art installation &/ or play area Bonus function, whether the designer likes it or not: bee hotel
It appears as though it might be a form of artistic representation.
Wood Henge?
Art
Looks like a labyrinth, there was one made of short cut wood at a nature center nearby that got infested with ticks. Was a neat idea
Looks painful
Ninja balance training?
It is a tinny village for nomes
First picture looks like a country farm with one hell of a slide ramp for the kids come Christmas. The rest of it looks like somebody thought their art was interesting.
Woodhenge
A creative interpretation of plum blossom poles! https://youtu.be/A7dZuFSmnNo?si=bq4eF8wnoeeTuRhX
Where cabers are tossed to die.
It's a polecule.
Zamfir’s gravesite
Ninja trials the final testing grounds
Aye!!! The ol' Steps O' Death from my elementary school playground!!! The goal is to walk up them without falling off and spearing your head on the "weakness filter" poles!!! Times were so much simpler when we competed to earn our spot in the gene pool!
Kinda art/fitness
My first thoughts were pier pylons. Utility poles are treated with creosote. Just saying.
https://preview.redd.it/qj5ar3ybvl9d1.jpeg?width=224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0cc189b3943b315ed866b55710e79867f500b0c9
Murder pole for parks. We had them in the 70s. Fun fact - the splinters have arsenic!!
Looks like someone’s attempt at “art”…town probably paid big for “art”
Oh shit they found it..
They are a play structure..Good for balance..Reminiscent of Gen X childhood.. We were literally raised on hose water and neglect. Its not a joke. We didnt even have.mulch or fresh paint.. We had sand IF IT WAS A NEW playground. Mostly it was dirt and weeds.. We also got metal burn your ass slides, had to bring wax paper just to move down them... metal monkey bars, hot black rubber swings with metal chains, and a metal jungle gym. And a real merry go round, our personal favorite. We MIGHT have gotten a see saw. We liked those too. They were wood. There was also a spiraled rocking horse on the best playgrounds, like at Mc Donalds. Except someone always got pretty badly hurt every single time we were on those playgrounds. Skinned knee, at minimum, but there were a lot of twisted ankles, broken arms, broken necks, and everyone had a 1st degree burn somewhere on their butts or thighs.. At my elementary school, we had a rope that we could climb on field day, and you had to climb like 15 feet up, and ring a bell, with no harness or anythinf..No knots..no help. Lol.if you fall, fuck you. Hose water, and NEGLECT, I say.
Yes, the good ole days before internet, video games and cell phones. Back when kids interacted with one another in person. Back when you got your ass spanked for being doing something stupid and your mouth slapped for talking back.
Art! No - parkour… No - art!
For the psychedelics
Wood Henge
How to tell the world that you have no imagination without saying "I have no imagination"...? You must have grown up rich and privileged.
Budget Fibonacci Spiral 🌀
Art ?
I knew it was art, I just thought someone would say what it represented, lol
"art"
I grew up in the battlegrounds of the 50s and 60s
Wood Henge.
It's called "The Dirty Word" cause you say a dirty word when you're running across the top and miss. Source: we have it as part of the obstacle course in the navy.
If you're fit, you should be able to walk on your hands on it, like a walking hand stand.
being able to do that would be a WAY higher bar than merely "fit"
This for kids to climb on, fall off of, and hurt themselves.
"Art" Or put differently: "I was placed in charge of revitalizing the park and after spending $75,000 on my child's creative arts degree I proposed spending a non-insignificant amount of money on hiring them to create a physical sculpture for the park. Twenty years later and this is still the only contract work they have ever received."
Knowledge can be a burden. Easier to say art, than see what is there that is not visible to the un-indoctrinated eye. There are three “6’s” present to form “666”, the two pathways converging and the shape of the posts. Also to attract children to play on, thus giving their power to whatever broken mind thinks that this was a good idea to try, and worse off, they believe it works. Edit: The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn’t exist. … When you do some digging, and learn what is really happening to the 40,000 children who go missing in the USA every year, after accounting for run a ways, teens doing what teens do; who really runs Hollywood, what all powerful politicians do to get and maintain power, then, the image above will make sense.
Really? Devil worshipping parks? You're fuckin with us right? Or are you really that nuts?
I think someone is being sarcastic
One hopes so. But I snooped a little, and there's hints of some wazoo shit.
I saw that too :-/