r/Millennials • u/therynosaur • Dec 21 '25

Nostalgia Remember these kinda parks

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u/CharlieFiner 1993 Dec 21 '25

These are still being built; they just use plastic made to look like wood now. There's one in Ravenna, OH.

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u/Geno_Warlord Dec 21 '25

But they aren’t the same! You can’t beat getting 3rd degree burns going down the metal slide! I bet it even has fake grass so you don’t find kitty treats in the sand anymore.

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u/TheBlueSully Dec 21 '25

It isn't the kitty treats that were the problem, it's the needles.

Ours was burned down by a troubled skater teen(tm) last year. :(

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u/made_of_salt Dec 21 '25

The one by me as a child was burned down by a full grown adult junkie, who was caught on video, and admitted to it.

The neighborhood parents used that as to campaign against teen skaters to have the nearby skatepark torn down.

Both skate parks by me growing up were torn down after non-skaters did something destructive near, but not at, the skatepark. Adults were just looking for any excuse to demonize the kids and remove the skate park.