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As far as I can remember noone ever died or had a catastrophic injury on the Jungle Gym in Elementary School. They were made of Iron Bars, could hold 100 kids at the same time without breaking and were firmly planted in rock hard ground trampled by thousands of feet. There was no cushion on the ground, no teachers to tell you not to rough house and was basically a free for all event.
If I remember right the boys jungle gym had one cube tower on top and the girls had two. There were separate ones in those days because little girls wore dresses to school.
We alternated the slide and merry-go-round between the boys and girls morning and afternoon.
My first day there I went down the slide during the girls time. I was quickly corrected and never made the same mistake again.
