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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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   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."

4. List of defunct amusement parks in the United States

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   1960–1962 [9] Idora Park: Oakland: 1904–1929 Japanese Village and Deer Park: Buena Park: 1967–1975 J's Amusement Park: Guerneville: 1960s–2003 Jungleland USA: Thousand Oaks: 1926–1969 Lion Country Safari: Irvine: 1970–1984 Luna Park: Los Angeles: 1910–1914 Formerly Chutes Park: Luna Park: San Jose: 1910–1916 Marine World/Africa ...

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. 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.

7. 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.