The playground "slide"

Victor Steinbok aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Fri May 4 15:15:26 UTC 2012


Note that the picture captioned "monkey bars" on the jungle gym Wiki
page (mentioned earlier) shows a single bar with triangular "hoops'
rather than ladder-style parallel bars.

     VS-)

On 5/4/2012 5:58 AM, W Brewer wrote:
> (1) MD 1950s: monkey bars (>  1960s US Army parallel bars); (2) NoCA 1970s
> Monkey Bar (gay bar); (3) Welcome to the Monkey Bar =
> http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=8391.
> Jungle Jim = (1) Johnny Weismuller TV show; (2) playground climbing frame
> (not parallel bars).

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