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Topic: Cold War era rocket ship playgrounds
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 03-12-2009 09:09 AM
   
Artist-photographer Lauren Orchowski has a field guide to American spacecraft of a different type... "ROCKET SCIENCE" The Cold War era rocket ship playgrounds. Images made with an 8 x 10 inch view camera. 2005-2008 United States  With thanks to Kris Stoever for the discovery of this delightful gallery. |
AFGAS
Member Posts: 89
From: Merritt Island, FL
Registered: Feb 2008
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posted 03-13-2009 06:50 AM
Oh, the memories those bring! I remember being so enamored by rockets and the space program I'd get excited spotting these playground fixtures, demanding a stop to investigate (Pops never did, but that's OK!). The 'Los Angeles' model is the most familiar. Oh, we deprive our children with these soft, rounded, non-threatening milquetoast playgrounds we give them today. |
Darron
Member Posts: 22
From: Port Salerno, FL, USA
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 03-13-2009 03:35 PM
Wonderful stuff! -- and how many are old enough to remember those rockets that would sit outside the doors of markets and dime stores, usually next to the mechanical horses?Some you straddled like a horse, some you sat in - put in a nickel and they'd gyrate around for a minute - some had beeping ray guns!  | |
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