Comments on: Up for a Park Day?

By: jdmock

jdmock — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:03:12 +0000

i loved the park. we use to swing has high has possible and jump had to out do eash othe. also we had the wood see-saw with the metal handle to hang on to. then when you were coming down you tried to hit the ground has hard has possible to bounce the other person off. great fun

By: Susan Helene Gottfried

Susan Helene Gottfried — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:17:23 +0000

You’re right about the parks we had growing up. I’ve gotten so used to the new-fangled ones that I hadn’t stopped to think about what we’d had as kids!

I still love the shaky bridges…

By: dgm

dgm — Sun, 03 May 2009 23:43:03 +0000

I love Pines Park! We haven’t been in a long time but I used to love taking my kids there when they were younger. It always made me think, as do many places around here, that our kids have it soooooooooo good growing up in this beautiful place.

By: Damien

Damien — Sat, 02 May 2009 03:13:12 +0000

The park is truly a magical place. I try and take my kids as much as I can until they shed their alien shell and become pupas of the system.

By: Deena

Deena — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:52:36 +0000

I loved going to the park when I was a kid. I especially loved the swings and the monkey bars. It’s nice to remember those carefree days! Did you ever jump off the swings? I used to swing as high as I could and then jump off. It was the closest thing I could get to flying.

By: Painted Maypole

Painted Maypole — Fri, 01 May 2009 04:42:29 +0000

oh, this post brought back memories!

and your trampoline description made perfect sense. we didn’t have those, but we loved to ride the animals on giant springs… even after we got way too big for them and they would bend all the way to the ground!

By: Bumbles

Bumbles — Fri, 01 May 2009 02:06:34 +0000

I visited a playground last weekend with my nephews and tried to swing along on the monkey bars. I was very happy that my toes could reach the sand because I couldn’t make it past 2 bars before my arms fell off. I used to spend HOURS hanging upside down from them, swinging from them until my sweaty palms slipped or it was too hot to handle. Thanks for the memories!!!!

By: Alice Audrey

Alice Audrey — Fri, 01 May 2009 02:00:15 +0000

I don’t know about KaBoom, but YOU are certainly taking me back. I came in right as the wooden swings disappeared and the rubber ones came in. I hated them. They squish the legs together painfully.

By: colleen

colleen — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:39:54 +0000

Ah, you brought back so many memories. We made up a game called “Hitch” to play on the swings and met every day all summer to play. Playgrounds today are so much more elaborate but we made up for that lack with imagination.

By: Brenda ND

Brenda ND — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:12:14 +0000

Oh, I remember those metal slides. They had one in my childhood park too. It had a tunnel like coverint near the top. I just thought it was the coolest. Happy TT!