Monday, September 13, 2010

Jump board. Jump plank. Call it whatever, but it's a game children of the 1940's played at school. Picture this, a seesaw with a child standing on one end, another child climbing a fence, tree, anything high enough to jump off and land on the opposite end and send victim sailing through the air. Clowns in a circus made it famous. Children with no other playground equipment made it fun.

No one ever broke a leg, not that anyone has reported to me. One girl said she fell into the open pit the school was in the process of digging for a new outhouse location. She skinned her leg, the teacher didn't blink. So she cleaned herself up and went back for more.

Catch of the day,

Gretchen

7 comments:

  1. Oh, I can hear the gasps of parents who are watching the playground, arms crossed, sure to never take an eye off their child, in today's world... horrors!!

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  2. At my kids grade school you can't even throw snow balls anymore.

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  3. Hi Gretchen,

    Did you ever play? I didn't. But I bounced someone up in the air on the other end of a seesaw plenty of times.

    This is a fun post. You're doing a great job with this project and gaining interest with this blog. Congratulations!

    Linda A.

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  4. Haha, I totally did this with my friends! Of course, I didn't know the official name for it. Now I do. :) Fun post!

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  5. I did this too! I didn't know the name either.

    I'm new here. *waves* Nice to meet you. :)
    ~Lola

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  6. It didn't take all that much to entertain kids once upon a time!
    Thanks for your comments everyone. I enjoy hearing stories.

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  7. Thanks for the snippets. Love the olive story. I'll have to look for the mtn. next time I'm driving in the area!

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