When I was a kid the playground equipment was all iron pipes--jungle jim, monkey bars, swingsets hung from a good ten feet with chain link and plain board seats. Teeter totters five feet off the ground at the high end (great fun to jump off of when you were down and let the other kid take a breath-expelling thump at the other,) shiney metal slides you could hardly walk up, but always tried. Merry go rounds you could pump to make go faster.
Don't remember a soul who was ever (seriously) hurt.
When I was a kid the playground equipment was all iron pipes--jungle jim, monkey bars, swingsets hung from a good ten feet with chain link and plain board seats. Teeter totters five feet off the ground at the high end (great fun to jump off of when you were down and let the other kid take a breath-expelling thump at the other,) shiney metal slides you could hardly walk up, but always tried. Merry go rounds you could pump to make go faster.
Don't remember a soul who was ever (seriously) hurt. And all of that was on asphalt. Not only that, but we went out in the coldest of winter and deepest snow. That made it all the more fun. And I remember that the muddier it was, the more of a challenge to ride the merry-go-round with to see if you could stay on and not fall off in the mud while kids were working hard to spin it faster. Then we would take turns and we would spin and they would try to stay on. It seemed that all of them sloped downward toward the outside making it more of a challenge.