I can never pass by a rambling scaffold like this on the courthouse without thinking back to summer days on the Gulliver Field monkey bars. They were sets of metal poles that kids could climb all over. Today, they might call them jungle gyms. The bars were great fun. When we were young things, it was always the challenge to get to the top and be able to oversee the entire playground. All the guys made it; few girls took the dare. Later in our teen years, it was always a good place for us guys to hang out on and talk about who liked who and who was going out with whom and swing to our hearts content. We were truly monkeys in many ways.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Monkey Bars
I can never pass by a rambling scaffold like this on the courthouse without thinking back to summer days on the Gulliver Field monkey bars. They were sets of metal poles that kids could climb all over. Today, they might call them jungle gyms. The bars were great fun. When we were young things, it was always the challenge to get to the top and be able to oversee the entire playground. All the guys made it; few girls took the dare. Later in our teen years, it was always a good place for us guys to hang out on and talk about who liked who and who was going out with whom and swing to our hearts content. We were truly monkeys in many ways.
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ca fait penser a un labyrinthe géant ;) belle photo graphique
ReplyDeleteyou still like monkeying around, don't you.
ReplyDeleteCool capture of the scaffolding while monkeying around with your camera.
ReplyDeleteThe scaffolding looks like a giant maze.
ReplyDeleteInteresting to know what boys are talking about when they're all together.. :o)
ReplyDeleteThe monkeys work a lot!
ReplyDeleteLéia
Old School monkey bars are definitely a no no now. Ours, probably like yours, were just steel bars over asphalt. If you fell it hurt. But getting to the top to hang out and talk with your buds was great.
ReplyDeleteLove it Birdman!
ReplyDeleteNow metal monkey bars are seldom built. Too dangerous claim the powers that be. Seems like they are taking away all the fun --like you experienced when you were young. -- barbara
ReplyDeletewe girls would hang out on the swing sets and talk about the same things... :)
ReplyDeleteSure is a good name for it. And this is a cool photo.
ReplyDeleteHanging upside down till all your blood ran to your head was a real treat on those old ones. We are all lucky we survived childhood!
ReplyDeleteNice shot, Birdman! Gives a whole new meaning to the term, "Monkey bars!"
ReplyDeleteHave you looked at a playground these days? Everything has been made so "safe" that it doesn't look like any fun. Where are the childhood memories going to be made?
ReplyDelete... a few of our gal pals would brave hanging by their knees, in get this, dresses. Ah... it was a time.
ReplyDeleteOh, yes, those monkey bars, swinging and climbing; thanks for reminding me.
ReplyDeleteSo THAT'S what you guys were always talking about up there? :D
ReplyDeleteSuch happy memories you do have Birdman!
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