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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.
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 ...
In the 1970s New York's Public Development Corp (PDC) took the land via eminent domain for the purpose of an industrial development. The property remained vacant and abandoned for years until being occupied by a movie complex, Toys R Us (closed in 2018) and office buildings. [54] Al-Tro Island Park: Menands: Late 1800s–early 1920s Astroland
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Playgrounds were an integral part of urban culture in the USSR. In the 1970s and 1980s, there were playgrounds in almost every park in many Soviet cities. Playground apparatus was reasonably standard all over the country; most of them consisted of metallic bars with relatively few wooden parts, and were manufactured in state-owned factories.
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.
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The company expanded its operations to playground equipment seven years later in 1959. [3] In 1971, Playworld Systems became its own company. [4] In January 1999, Playworld Systems moved to its current corporate headquarters in Lewisburg. [5] In 2007 Playworld launched NEOS, the world’s first outdoor electronic play system. [6]