Our Merry-go-round at the school I attended as a kid was, I'm sure, no different than most in the country during the 1950's. It was all metal with metal handles or gripes through-out. But, it wasn't perfectly round. There were, maybe, ten sections that came together. and on the outer- ring they came together with just a slight point, not perfectly rounded off.
There lay one of the dangers. If you were standing there and spinning "it" around you could possibly get your shin hit by this slight edge or outside point. If that didn't do you in then maybe the following would. If you were being spun around by a class-mate and happened to fall, you could bounce around on the those handle-grips like a pin-ball. Hopefully you would not be knocked unconscious!
We were lucky in that we just had plain dirt around the merry-go-round not gravel or rock. That could have really finished you off.
One more danger lurked in the teeter-totter! If you were the lucky soul to be sitting on the up side when your partner decided to leave you for what ever reason! Bye-bye! Down you came with a thud! Hopefully your teeth and any other body parts were still all there!
We'll save the flying swing-set and "big" slide for another time!
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