Jungle gyms

[Joel S. Berson]

At 5/3/2012 02:42 PM, Alice Faber wrote:
>On 5/3/12 2:40 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>On May 3, 2012, at 2:30 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>>
>>>You forgot monkey bars and girl scout cookies.
>>
>>Isn't "monkey bar" another name for what we called a jungle gym?  I
>>think we only used the latter term.  But I suppose if some
>>outlander called the jungle gym a monkey bar we wouldn't have
>>looked around for someone to whip up a banana daiquiri.  And we
>>were also pretty sure we didn't have to worry about getting cut by
>>the sharp blades of a see-saw.  It's all context.
>
>Yeah, in my NY suburb, in the late 50s/earl 60s, 'jungle gym' was the
>default term, but we knew that there were people who called them monkey
>bars.

Me too, in NYC (well, almost a suburb -- the far North Bronx).

Joel

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