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- Lost in Toyland
- And without gloves
- If I were a blindfolded time traveler
- Smoke Consumer Also Cooks
- Oh that stove!
- Possibly still there?
- What?!?
- $100 Reward
- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
- Passenger trains have right of way over freights?
- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
- Great shot
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Washington, D.C., 1921. "Montessori School." View full size. 4x5 glass negative, National Photo Company.
String of Perils
Yes it's amazing how many things we did as kids that are now banned as too dangerous. The recent concern about lead paint on imported toys makes me think about the fact that lead paint was everywhere when I was a kid -- and I'm sure on my toys as well. And many things I've worked with over the years are now banned as well. I just didn't know what a dangerous life I was living!
Danger
You know, I don't remember anyone being killed, maimed or permanently damaged on playground equipment at home (on homemade teeter totter much like the one pictured), at school or at a public playground. A very few broken arms and that was it. Because of the intervening Great Depression and World War II, much of our equipment was from the late 1920s or earlier.
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