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When seesaws used sawhorses

By adamg on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 11:37am
Kids on seesaws in old Boston

The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.

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Comments

By jared mcnabb on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 12:02pm.

their parents were not concerned about hot turtle statues on this playground

By anon on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 3:47pm.

Nah. Kids were sturdier back then. Nobody was allergic to bread, either.

By SwirlyGrrl on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 6:57pm.

Nope. Just died a lot more often.

By GFN on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 10:16pm.

n/t

By adamg on Tue, 08/13/2019 - 9:56am.

You've never heard of measles, polio and smallpox?

The site below focuses on numbers from around the world, but the US isn't really that exceptional. I found it with roughly 30 seconds of Googling on "childhood mortality rates 1910;" I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to find more US-based stats.

https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality

By jmeltzer on Tue, 08/13/2019 - 8:15pm.

diphtheria, typhus, tuberculosis ...

By bostnkid on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 12:06pm.

my grampa told me about this. it was an early mbta line. you just jumped on and hoped for the best. he said it was way more efficient than the red line

By BostonDog on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 1:47pm.

Lots of bumping up and down but you never get anywhere.

By anon on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 7:31pm.

I was taking the Green Line once as it went through the especially bumpy and screeching part from Park to Boylston and out. A 5-year old boy, clearly new to riding the T, frustratedly complained to his dad, "This is like a roller coaster but less fun!"

By mangycougar on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 12:13pm.

This was the photo taken right before Spanky and Alfalfa showed up with the shenanigans.....

By SwirlyGrrl on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 6:58pm.

Look how close together those multi-family buildings are! The children will suffer and the city will be destroyed!

By Beanzzz on Tue, 08/13/2019 - 7:12am.

Citations needed.

By anon on Tue, 08/13/2019 - 3:47pm.

Actually, poor people living in cramped living conditions such as high density buildings creates dangerous conditions in which disease spreads more easily. If you had family in tenement housing, your grandparents would have told you stories of this from their childhood. There's nothing funny about it.

By Suldog on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 8:54pm.

West Roxbury?

Suldog

By GFN on Mon, 08/12/2019 - 10:18pm.

What???

By Boston City Archives on Tue, 08/13/2019 - 9:23am.

Thanks for playing, folks! This photo shows children "tilting" (see-sawing) at William Wirt Warren Playground on Waverly St in Brighton in about 1906. (The photo was in the 1907 School Committee Report)

By Lee on Tue, 08/13/2019 - 12:23pm.

No helmets!!!?