Sorry.
I did want to elaborate on the playground which had this hard metal Soviet style brutalism to it. At one point in the 6th grade they installed a small more normal wood one (which I forgot to add) but the OG structures were out of Mad Max.
The Pony Swing had these 40 pound metal horses you rode that were attached to the arch. You pumped them forward to get going and it was a lot of fun to swing the ones in the middle and just Ben Hur the knees out of the kid next to you.
The UFO was maybe 10 feet off the ground and had a metal saucer on top that you then slide down from on a firefight pole or one of those devious playground coils.
The rocket slide. Wow that was something else. Imagine a 40 foot metal rocket shaped cage. Then small ladders running up with each alternating on each level (which was maybe 6 feet between levels) until at the second to highest level there was a burning metal slide. If you did go down it then you had an intense claustrophobia trapped in the slots. Did I mention it was all rusty?
Looked like this only taller and red.
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| It was huge. You could see the curvature of the earth! |
Mind you this was boarded up after 1998 so it still stood but no one could climb up either the ladder of slide.
The field by the playground was just a hodge podge of grass and the red mud. The back half was dotted with gopher holes** that gobbled people up as they ran three legged races.
So yeah to get quikcly you took a lot of short cuts especially when you made it to 7th grade and you did not need to worry about lining up or getting your raincoat out from your cubby. No, GO! You got 5 minutes to make it from Art to Computer Lab!
*Assumed. I don't know if anyone save robots read that blog.
**Mind you there are no gophers in PR so this was either rats that made it or some ankle hating monster
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