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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

"Surfacing guidelines? We don't need no stinkin' surfacing guidelines"




Helen Levitt, New York, c. 1940

Image and caption submitted by reader Peter Hoh...thanks Peter! [original source]

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5 comments:

  1. clgJuly 19, 2011 at 5:54 PM

    just published on nyt...

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/science/19tierney.html?_r=1&src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fscience%2Findex.jsonp

    interesting take on the safety of playgrounds.

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  2. Magic and MayhemJuly 20, 2011 at 9:47 AM

    Yikes! I'm all for nostalgia but as a parent, I do not want to go back quite to that extreme! :)

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  3. danJuly 21, 2011 at 10:58 PM

    everything is a play structure for a child =)

    I just saw these playground pics from another era on one of the blogs I read:

    http://streeturchins.blogspot.com/2011/06/edwardian-urchin-playgrounds.html

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  4. Garden AccessoriesJuly 24, 2011 at 1:38 AM

    great picture!

    it amazes me that some organisations are now starting to throw the safety guidelines out the window and build 'danger' grounds -

    there is one close to me in Melbourne called CERES. The following sketch is a tad lame in terms of what is actually on the ground - http://ceres.org.au/cerescontent/images/childrensHabitat.jpg

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  5. PuppyLovePrincessAugust 7, 2011 at 7:30 PM

    this makes me smile. what adventurous little monkey-kidlets :)

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