Friday Photo Flashback

As the chilly fall weather creeps in, I thought I would share a summer photo today.

The above photo was taken in August of 1979. From left to right, you have my brother, me, and our friends Nicole and Jim. It looks as though we were ready to go swimming, but we didn’t have a pool. Perhaps we were running through the sprinkler or something.

One of the reasons I love this picture is that this was our first swing set. I remember my dad pouring the cement to keep the poles in the ground. I also remember waiting for what seemed like forever for us to finally be able to use it.

I wish the photo would have been positioned a bit better so you could see the whole swing set. It was really cool. It was set up kind of like the letter “H.” In the photo, you can see I am holding the rings. I remember being able to hold onto them, jump up and do a flip on them. On the other side you can see Jim on a swing. Along with the rings and swing, on the other side there was a bar on a chain. It was something like a trapeze artist might use and we would often hang upside down on them.

I had to search the net and while I couldn’t find the exact set we had, I found something similar.

It was set up just like the photo above. Except in the place of one of the swings, we had one of those two seat swings. You know, the one that kind of looked like a see saw? It took me forever to find the thing on the internet because I didn’t even know what to call it. However, you can see the thing in this picture:

Remember those things??

The top photo takes me back to a time where kids were kids. We could swing on a swing set for hours. We had no electronics to distract us. We interacted with other kids and always seemed to get along. My how the times have changed.