Word: slide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIVOLI GARDENS PLAYGROUND. The Danes are adept at entertaining children, and they take it seriously. Created by 13 of Denmark's top artists and architects, the playground is modeled after Copenhagen's. Kids can sail paper boats in shallow canals or swoop down a slippery slide into a sandbox, sit at tiny-tot tables and watch fireflies flit in the trees or play hide-and-seek in a maze with magic mirrors...
...here, then, unfettered, enjoy the adult attractions. Created by 13 top Danish artists and architects, the playground has everything to charm a child: fireflies flitting in trees, tiny-tot tables and chairs, shallow canals with paper sailboats, a hide-and-seek maze with magic mirrors, an S-shaped slippery slide in a giant sandbox, and legetanter (play aunts) to share...
...lushly orchestrated show tunes. For surprise encores Vaudevillian Fiedler uncorked a brassy, off Beatle I Want to Hold Your Hand complete with handclapping and nasal chorus of "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" from the string section, and a breezy Hello, Dolly! punctuated with the wheeee of a child's slide whistle and the oooga oooga of a Klaxon horn...
Oakland, Calif., has a $65,000 Fairyland with supersize Mother Goose characters and a clocktower slide; a 30-ft. sculpture called "The Monster" whose innards are littered with caves and slides; a series of structures made of wooden piles and culvert pipe, imaginatively painted and arranged; a Western frontier town (with a tombstone inscribed "As You Stand Now So Once...
...most successful in the country. No two of the city's 347 recreational facilities are identical: one has a series of concrete castles, one a squirrel house, another a spray pool. Newest equipment includes a 25-ft.-high rocket to the moon (with a helpful slide back to earth) and a gigantic turtle made of pipe and concrete. A big draw at the Penn Valley playground in Kansas City, Mo., is a magnificent woodpile composed of a series of tree trunks embedded in concrete under sand to form an intricate jungle gym. Even small towns are adopting...