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2. Cold War playground equipment - Wikipedia

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   Playground equipment—including rockets—was usually mass-produced at large manufacturing plants which tended to follow repetitive designs and patterns. As a result, playgrounds across the Soviet sphere of influence often featured identical equipment, with "brutal construction" and "generous use of old tires."

3. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. Gendron, Inc. - Wikipedia

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   However, it continued to manufacture wooden wagons and playground equipment. Catalogs from the 1950s and early 1960s show playground equipment and hand car racers with the trade name Howdy Doody. [2] In 1959, Gendron Wheel moved most of its manufacturing to Archbold, Ohio. [5] The Perrysburg plant was closed in 1963.

6. Spring rider - Wikipedia

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   A spring rider or spring rocker is a bouncy, outdoors playing device, invented in the 1960s in Italy by the company Pozza. [1] It mainly consists of a metal spring beneath a plastic or wooden central beam or flange, with 1 to 4 plastic or fiberglass seats above it. When a person sits on it, the structure moves and bounces.

7. 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 ...