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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." [8]
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.
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 ...
In the mid-1980s, CBS revived the Creative Playthings name to use on a line of wooden playground equipment. These were produced in Herndon, PA, and a CBS-owned plant, which had also made Tinkertoys. After CBS divested itself of its toy lines beginning in 1985, the name was sold to a playground equipment manufacturer in Framingham, MA.
[80] Rainbow Gardens White Oak: 1924–1968 Began as a roller rink and swimming pool, with an amusement park and drive-in theater added in the 1940s. [81] Rock Point Park Ellwood City: 1884–1911 [82] Rocky Glen Park: Moosic: 1886–1987 Rocky Springs Park Lancaster: 1899–1966, 1979–1980 [83] Rolling Green Park Hummels Wharf: 1908–1971 ...
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