[Summit] Red Park

[Theresa Mathiesen]

My husband and I walked by the tot lot (Ninth Street Playground is the
name that I know it by) on our evening stroll the other day, and we
noticed and commented on all those plastic toys.  We wonder if they
are discards or actually being used.  Perhaps someone who uses the
playground now could enlighten us.

In a related question, I've been wondering why that perfectly good (as
far as I could tell) metal slide in the Lippitt Park playground was
discarded in favor of a plastic one.

Elva Mathiesen

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Brett Summers <brett at mightycheese.com> wrote:
> We currently go to the playground with our kids.  When we first moved here
> (8 years ago), there weren't many toys in the playground at all.  In
> contrast, Humboldt playground had a bunch of toys, and I considered this a
> sign of a healthy neighborhood: that toys could be left at the park and
> would stay there for the next morning's assault on the park.  When our own
> neighborhood park filled up with toys, I was happy to see them collect and
> more happy to see that they stayed.  There are some broken ones, it's true,
> and I have periodically dumped broken ones in the trash when I've been there
> with my kids.  But there are also a lot of play houses (admittedly plastic
> and not terribly beautiful), that the kids construct and reconstruct into
> towns, fortresses, and rambling playground structures.  If we all keep on
> top of disposing of the broken, dysfunctional toys, the remaining ones can
> be seen as an advantage instead of a detriment to the park.
>
>
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