Vintage Playgrounds
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- čas přidán 7. 01. 2016
- Credentialed PE teacher & Kinesiologist Ron Jones, MS of The Lean Berets narrates the many benefits of vintage playground equipment and highlights some newer equipment. "Off the ground" gravity training is essential for children to develop physically and mentally.
There’s an elementary school in my city with a huge late 60s-early 70s playground. There’s a super tall rocket ship and a silver igloo looking thing you can climb
I'm glad it's still there! Climbing is great for kids plus it's fun to pretend on a rocket ship too. :)
We need to bring these playgrounds back! With tornado slides and merry go rounds.
those merry go rounds were great. sometimes we got a little roughed up on these old playgrounds and it was thrilling, it's what we needed.
I went to a really cool old playground in the 80s somewhere in Nova Scotia
I can’t find what it was called (but I’m only starting to find it) and I remember this weird balance training thing…
There was a huge barrel on an axis like a big hamster wheel and it was fun to run in.
That’s amazing!
It's often the insurance that public and private parks and playgrounds are forced to carry on this equipment that often dictates their presence these days...
Yes, but why do we allow and insure skate parks where kids fly down steep concrete slopes often without helmets then say that a pull-up bar is dangerous? It's total hypocrisy and it's illogical.
@TheLeanBerets - Skateparks often charge a high admission to get in, along with some of the more dangerous chutes, pipes, or bowls requiring manditory protective gear AND separate additional ticket fees... The high admission and additional ticket fee is what pays the insurance premiums...
@@Jhihmoac Not many I have seen in CA. They allow skateparks because of public demands. We are not demanding pull-up bars and gravity training equipment.
Not much different from UK children's playgrounds. But most of ours were removed by the health and safety brigade. The kids now have four foot slides with plastic, where as the ones from the my childhood in the 60s were metal and twelve foot high. We also had conical swinging climbing frames on poles, that we called Witches Hats. They'd be banned as too dangerous now.
Sad. What is more dangerous are kids that cannot relate to a physical kinesthetic world.
Over the years, I developed a vintage park. 2 merry-go-Rounds, Metal Slide. Stage Coach, Large Swing, Global
Monkey Bars, and I restored 6 Spring Riders that I need to cement in yet.
There's a public park in a neighboring village that still has their 1950s and 60s playground equipment set up..
This is both amazing and very important! What country are you residing?
@@TheLeanBerets U.S.A. Upstate New York. Just a few miles away, there's a home that has
a Witch's Hat in their front lawn. I noticed they decorate it for the holidays, so I don't think
they'd let it go, but I'd love to have one.
Probably GameTime's Pull-a-Way Merry-go-Round (from I believe the 1940s) is the most
unique piece I have, but I also have a bench swing (probably around the 1940s) that I've
never seen before. It's been a great Summertime hobby over the years..
@@timippolito1182 This is really interesting! I have a podcast show called “The Long Road” where I discuss culture and education and often chat about classical PE, parks, recreation, etc. I would be interested in doing an interview with you. We can chat further if interested. My email is: ron@ronjones.org
had similar playgrounds in the old days especially the old metal monkey bars slides and swings in Australia. slowly started bringing in new plastic sterile stuff and now your lucky to find old stuff . too busy playing on their phones these days 🤦🏼
So true. They literally do not know what they are missing.
awesome
What park is this please?
This park is in CA near the Bay Area of NorCal
Thats neat but is that gravel or mulch on the ground? They should be using soft mulch
Wrong. They need to learn how to land. Life is dangerous. The sooner kids can navigate risks, the better they can live.