[belairv8]

Monkey Bars - where you really learned to hold on. If you fell, you hit ten steel bars before you landed on the concrete below.

The good old days.

 

[joninomader]

That is back when life had consequences. That is how we learned about life and the results of bad decisions.

 

[chevman57]

And we still survived. Too many people trying to watch over everyone else these days.
Terry

 

[55belairman]

I loved the monkey bars and pretty much everything else on the playground.

 

[delray_fan]

In today's world those kids on top would need to be tied off with a harness to comply with OSHA.....

 

[Lloyd's 55 R.I.P 7-10-2016]

Really like this post, had to reply. We were RAISED to accept the consequences of out actions. It was NOT someone else"s fault. Grow up Parents, you are not your childs best friend, you have obligations. Whew :gba: :bowtier:

Guess what, My grandbabies love Granny and Pawpaw.

 

[belairv8]

In today's world those kids on top would need to be tied off with a harness to comply with OSHA.....

:sign0020:

 

[Babs57]

Yep..........the good old days, survived the falls from it and it made us stronger !! :tu

 

[carls 56]

life was simpler back then. :tu

 

[Dan Starnes]

I am fairly certain any common sense that exists in me was because I bonged my head on those more than once.

 

[zbad55]

Now those are lawsuit in waiting, too bad that's the way things are now, everyone wants to sue and make money.

 

[mr 265]

Yep,,,, you learned real fast back them to be careful ,,,

 

[Before My Time]

lol...I loved climbing all over those!!

As for our old play grounds...I knew a girl my age that fell off one of the rides...loss the use of one side of her body. It took her years to learn to walk with a limp, and use her left hand to write. We were in fifth grade. From that day, I was careful with who I was playing with, more than where I was playing...

 

[Rick_L]

Monkey bars were a lot of fun! Even as dumb kids, most of us knew how to survive them.

 

[FUZZY]

Loved the monkey bars.

Where we learned to contort our bodies into positions they weren't meant to be in to get to the next bar.

 

[Ratpackin]

Loved the monkey bars.

Where we learned to contort our bodies into positions they weren't meant to be in to get to the next bar.

Yep- and how about the bar set that was shaped like an Apollo capsule- anyone else play on one of those?

 

[07dodge]

I was lucky enough to be a kid at the tail end of some of the old-style ways, before everyone was sue happy or worried about pedophiles.

I was in kindergarten in '89, and we still had monkey bars and those solid swinging vertical bars where two kids could climb and see who rung the bell first. In PE we had an obstacle course with a giant net that we climbed, up until about 4th or 5th grade. Our parents cut us loose and said be home at this time and nobody worried about the kids being unsupervised. Got two bucks from my mom and went to Olsen's Market in Lander WY and left with 200 pieces of penny candy...

About the time I hit middle school, ALL of that stuff was gone. Kids are worse off now in a lot of ways, but I can't with good conscious let my 6yo daughter go out of my line of sight, never know what kind of sicko could be eyeing her...sad days now.

 

[delray_fan]

I think we need a poll to see how many tri fivers got their tongue stuck to the monkey bars in the middle of winter ......:sign0020:

 

[angs1957]

Consider yourselves lucky we only had one row of bars in a straight line

 

[Randy 57]

Besides all the metal bars there were the exposed nuts and bolts to snag you on and many of them were built right on the good old asphalt.