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  2. Miracle Recreation Equipment Company - Wikipedia

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    Miracle was the first playground manufacturer to use powder coating of steel parts in the late 1960s. After World War II, thefirm widened their market to include the increasingly popular drive-in movie theaters, selling two smaller versions of carousels that were commonly found at fairs and amusement parks. The first year they sold over 200 ...

  3. Cold War playground equipment - Wikipedia

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    When the city tried to replace the playground equipment in 2008, it was met with local opposition. A task force established to investigate the removal found the rocket ship had "very limited play value," and had "hazardous conditions that present a great danger to young children." [4] The playground equipment was dismantled despite the ...

  4. List of defunct amusement parks in the United States

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    Severely damaged by fire in 1932. Rebuilt as Boardwalk Park. Construction began on a drive-in movie theatre in 1960, which was completed, but never opened to the public. The land went up for auction in 1966. Carson City and Indian Village: Catskill: 1958–1997 Celoron Amusement Park Celoron: 1893–1962 Cimarron City Monticello: 1950s–1960s ...

  5. Category:Playground equipment - Wikipedia

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    Media in category "Playground equipment" This category contains only the following file. Merry-go-round.jpg 800 × 639; 176 KB

  6. Jungle gym - Wikipedia

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    A jungle gym (called a climbing frame in British English) is a piece of playground equipment made of many pieces of material, such as metal pipes or ropes, on which participants can climb, hang, sit, and—in some configurations—slide. Monkey bars are a part of a jungle gym where a user, hanging in the air, swings between evenly spaced ...

  7. Playscape - Wikipedia

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    The term was associated in the 1960s with the New York-based Playground Corporation of America. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] It is mentioned by Joe Frost in his 1992 book, Play and Playscapes , referring to attempts to replace or add on to the rubberized surface, metal and plastic of traditional playgrounds.

  8. Roundabout (play) - Wikipedia

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    A merry-go-round at a park in New Jersey. A roundabout (British English), merry-go-round (American English), or carousel (Australian English), is a piece of playground equipment, a flat disk, frequently about 2 to 3 metres (6 ft 7 in to 9 ft 10 in) in diameter, with bars on it that act as both hand-holds and something to lean against while riding.

  9. Leathers and Associates - Wikipedia

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    A typical example of the community-built wooden playground complexes associated with Leathers and Associates. This one was located in Dormont, Pennsylvania.. Leathers and Associates is an Ithaca-based family-owned playground construction company, best known for having coordinated community-led construction of large wooden playground parks in many towns across the United States during the 1980s ...

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