Challenge and image source from Sepia Saturday.
These Madrid street kids are upside down, the wrong way up, and all over the place. That's what happens when you place kids next to the slightest excuse for a piece of acrobatic equipment. So for Sepia Saturday 177 - post your posts on or around Saturday 18th May 2013 - we want you to search out your old photos of kids, or acrobats, or people who are upside down or the wrong way around .... or whatever. This 1908 photograph comes from the George Eastman Collection which has been made available by the wonderful Flickr Commons initiative.
My sister, cousin and myself on the swings in Van Horne Park in Montreal around 1960. That is my pregnant aunt sitting on the bench partially obscured by the tree. Love the car!!
We were living on de la Peltrie at the time, the street behind the swings. The house number would have been around 5100. These are typical Montreal duplexes defined as 4 1/2 or 51/2 rooms, the half being the bathroom. This is very different than the way properties are described in Toronto. Nowadays a lower apartment would rent for $850 a month!!
Construction of the Decarie Autoroute was not begun until 1964 and is a sunken highway which caused the collapse of many businesses along the original Decarie Blvd. a story for another day.
I think that this shots a type of swing not in anyone else's pictures today. I haven't seen one like it for years.
ReplyDeleteYes - these are more like the swings in use when I was little... the kind that really hurt if you got hit in the head with one or pinched your fingers in the chain or between the chain and "safety" bar. :)
ReplyDeleteInteresting composition with the three of you suspended on the swings. I don' t remember swings of that style in Winnipeg...we had plain seats with chains. I can also remember a few tire swings. No matter what the style of swing you can be sure if it moves at all some kid will be having fun on it.
ReplyDeleteSeems a rather sedate swing ride, although totally appropriate for a baby that size.
ReplyDeleteI am not sure if you are enjoying yourselves : there is more trepidation than excitement in your expressions.
ReplyDeleteAh, the baby swings. Yes, I remember those too. As Kathy said, they could be painful.
ReplyDeleteThat's an interesting picture; it appears the swings are going round a central pole. I only remember them being in a straight line with parents pushing from behind.
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