“Metal slides that felt like molten steel in the summer.”
“So I remember being a kid (born in early ’80s) and hanging out at the park by where my sisters played soccer games.
Middle of the playground structure was a hollow metal tube about two stories tall with a ladder in it. Idea being, you popped in at the ground, climbed up, and there were two or three points where you could pop out at different areas of the structure.
Well, that tube was just a sheet of metal rolled into a tube and riveted together. Put that in direct sunlight and it got hot.
Made climbing up it a game of ‘the sides are lava.’
On really hot days, kids would cram into the tube, then someone would say ‘1, 2, 3, go!’ and everyone would press their backs against the metal. Last one to stay in contact won the eternal respect of the playground, some first-degree burns, and an honorary mention in that year’s Darwin Awards.”
