Every playground was made of blazing hot metal in the 60’s 70’s and part of the 80’s! 😂

@blueeyes3

10 ай бұрын

They're still around in small awesome towns! Definitely a lot in 90s too. 😅

@williamhouseholder1558

10 ай бұрын

@@blueeyes3 yep the meatal slides were the best till you wore shorts on a summer day

@blueeyes3

10 ай бұрын

@williamhouseholder1558 I still enjoyed them. We grew up very poor, so going to the parks was our best entertainment. But sometimes you could go home with a heat burn, And it wasn't from the sun. Not directly anyway. 😆

@lynnetheridge1765

10 ай бұрын

Burning legs from the elephant slide.

@lynnetheridge1765

10 ай бұрын

So funny💕 and true

Our parents didn't even know where we were. We jumped on our bikes in the morning, came home for lunch, and then in for dinner. Then we go out at dusk and catch fire flies. Of course we stay within shouting distance. Those were the days.

@williamhouseholder1558

10 ай бұрын

I grew up near tons of lava rocks in the middle of no where. The neighbor kids and 6 of us would be out all night playing light tag with flash lights. Its amazing the things your do when you dont have ipads and your bored. Their were days where everyone would be covered in welts from crab apple wars lol

@seedsoflove7684

10 ай бұрын

Dont forget drinking from the water hose. And making mud pies. But i do prefer plastic slides to metal. Safer.

@munbeam1

10 ай бұрын

In our house, we had to stay within my mom's whistle. And that thing could make your ears bleed if you were close when she let it rip. We could hear her whistle over any emergency vehicle sirens.

@seedsoflove7684

10 ай бұрын

@@munbeam1 good ol days!

@deborahsmith6994

10 ай бұрын

@@munbeam1 HAHAHAHAHA. "Let it rip" SO funny😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

We used to come home from the town park bruised,scratched,bloody. Backs of our legs burned from the slide. We would roll down a hill in the trash barrels. The good old days!😂 Connie G.

You didn't mention the steel merry-go-round. What happens to 15 kids at 20 mph, and no railing !! Go ahead, tell THAT story.

@solaveritas2

10 ай бұрын

The best! 😂

We played dodge ball. With slightly deflated balls, which would bend your nose when it hit you at about 300 mph.

@777ttaylor

10 ай бұрын

Exactly 🤣💥

@pamelameckley5040

10 ай бұрын

Ohh yeah, good times. Especially when a boy who hit puberty early through one at you at maximum velocity!

@coleengoodell7523

10 ай бұрын

Dooiingg, the smell and sound of those red balls, unforgettable.

@williamhouseholder1558

10 ай бұрын

dodge ball was one of my favorites... revenge!

@kathyhollenbach7413

10 ай бұрын

​@@williamhouseholder1558 you're a boy, but I was a girl and was terrified....I always got hit

We used to make sure to gain momentum on the swing, not to go around it, but to jump from the highest point and see who would land the farthest. smh. I still wonder how we never broke bones or wound up in the hospital.

@iyaayas

10 ай бұрын

Surprised he didn't mention this! I lived for this and the slacked swing that occured after I gave up trying to go over the bar

@DaisyCloverbee

10 ай бұрын

We did that. We called it 'bailing out'.

@bvaughns

10 ай бұрын

Right! These kids can’t manage falling off let alone jumping. I have 3 of them 😅

@Pascalore

9 ай бұрын

When we jumped off the wooden seat swings we knew how to land. Those dumb rubber seats wouldn't let your butt go. And when we used the slide - wax paper - I even gave it to my kids on their first trip to the neighborhood playground. I didn't go with them. They were fine.

@allenschermerhorn941

4 ай бұрын

I used to jump off the swing for distance records, until one day my pants got caught in the seat itself. Nothing quite like yeeting yourself off of a rubber seat only to have it grab you on the exit and flip your face into the ground!

Oh, but the monkey bars. Such fun, and they were on plain old dirt. If you fell, you got hurt. The school nurse fixed a lot of boo-boos. Not many ambulance runs, 'cause we mostly walked it off. Ah, good times.

@KenzoTan1942

10 ай бұрын

We don’t even have a nurse, we get blisters and just got used to them, king of the hill kind of thing.

@solaveritas2

10 ай бұрын

Our playground was gravel. Then when you fell you got a nice pebble pattern on our legs and arms, maybe the face also, depending on whether you dropped off the monkey bars or were yeeted off the spinner, or roundabout, whatever you call that thingie that possibly killed more kids on the playgrounds than any other piece of equipment.

@jameslipke354

10 ай бұрын

We'd sit up on top of the monkey bars and our teachers NEVER said a word! 🤣 ~ APRIL LIPKE

@kathyhollenbach7413

10 ай бұрын

​@@solaveritas2 Oh, so true!! I took my toddler daughter with me to ride on it and the kids had it going so fast I couldn't hold on any longer and we both flew off of it. I was so scared for my daughter but we were both safe. Guardia angel was there for us that day. Never went on that again, not even alone..that was too much to handle.

@maisies927

10 ай бұрын

We were told not to come home crying. If you did get hurt and went home crying, we were yelled at. It was our own fault. Which it was. And we would be right back out there playing on it again.

No joke, I had a classmate in 1st grade that went flying off our metal swing set on the playground while trying to go as high as he possibly could. When he landed in the sand he received a compound fracture in his wrist. When we were back in class he called out to the teacher about “the red stuff” getting on his project. She flipped her lid when she noticed it was blood. I remember it like it was yesterday. Poor kid! That playground was the best though! My favorite was the concrete sewage pipes we had for climbing on and through. Talk about HOT in that Arizona heat. 😆

Rusted metal and splintery wood. Omg the jeans thing 😂😂😂

So funny 'cause it's pretty much the truth. Our parents philosophy was " Betcha won't try that again."

I remember playing yard darts. We would see how close we could get them to the other kid's feet. I was good, I don't have any scars. 😁 Those things were sharp. And the Mom sayings, I don't want to hear a word when you get hit with one of those. But my favorite is "if you break your leg, don't come running to me" lol I want to be young again

@williamhouseholder1558

10 ай бұрын

my great grandmother had yard darts unfortunely they were hidden when we were found playing the wrong way with them lol. Those things were weapons.

@carolemascarini2036

10 ай бұрын

LOLLLOL

I haven’t laughed that hard in a while. Brilliant set.

@rayburnyarborough4695

10 ай бұрын

Dry Bar Comedy is the best!

@annemariewheeler1404

9 ай бұрын

Me too😂

Reminds me of Jeff Allen’s skit about his grandchildren going down the slide an inch at a time screaming “WEEEE PAPA WEEEE”

I can still remember the pain in my arms from Red Rover…and the condemnation of peers if you were the breaking point.

The metal slides were SO tall....

I don't remember wanting to swing all the way around. What I wanted was to get the farthest after jumping of at the highest point. I also remember wearing shorts on those metal slides, bad idea but I did it anyway.

The trick to making those metal slides slick was to toss a handful of gravel up it before you climbed. The dust would be dry lubricant, made for the fastest ride on the playground.

@musiqmike

10 ай бұрын

Exactly! Or I would sometimes take a handful of it up with me and sprinkle it down first. Made a world of difference in reducing the friction.

@kathygreer2097

9 ай бұрын

We took a small square of waxed paper to the playground. Made it smooooth and shiny!😊

@sylviavega-ortiz3006

5 ай бұрын

Yes to all above! And then it would rain and there would be a slimy puddle at the end of the slide.

I think he understands that self-esteem doesn't come from others, it comes from your own self so those gold stickers definitely do not to boost your self-esteem the same way achieving a goal does

@deborahduthie4519

10 ай бұрын

You have that correct. The kids who grew up with ‘trophy, everyone’s a winner years’, have apathy and depression and are glad for nothing to do outside of the house.

Yep! 500 degree Fahrenheit slides, monkey bars that would destroy you on the way down if you slipped, the merry-go-rounds that would sling you off into orbit if you didn't puke first, and the one nobody has mentioned yet - the seesaw which would give you a vertebrae fracture when your "friend" jumped off. And don't get me going on suicide missions down the sledding hill in the summer in a homemade go cart made from scrap wood, baby buggy wheels, a piece of rope to "steer" it, all held together by 4 rusty bent nails.

@mikeh.7499

10 ай бұрын

One thousand thumbs up!!!😂.me too.

@edwardwicks304

10 ай бұрын

You just took me back to my childhood days. Great comment. 😅

He's soo funny. I laughed out loud alone. It's funny because it was absolutely true.

Young kids, just know that there is A LOT OF TRUTH in this show. It's ALL TRUE!

This dude's hilarious

Lmao...Merry go rounds....metal and wood! 16' metal slide...16' high swings that were concreated into the ground....yeah good times!!!!

@michellebarnhill5130

10 ай бұрын

Steel merry go round...going as fast as all of us could get it going. Mama was a boomer baby...used to take wax paper and make the 16 foot slide faster 😅

It’s interesting that I still experienced that as a millennial but in Moldova, former part of USSR. It was 1994-2000 and we still had metal slides, wooden and metal playground structures and climbed water pipes. Boys climbed garages because they were usually a separate structure- like a row of garages completely separated from buildings

This guy hit it on the head! Great routine!

Gravel and lava hot metal

Roger Radley, Awesome! Hysterically funny! Got to see more of this comedian's videos!😂😜🤣🤪

I was born in 1952. My house had the park right behind us with all the swings and the slides and the teeter totter’s in the monkey bars, so I’m totally enjoying your comedy because we had a great childhood not like the kids nowadays.

@AKHWJ3ST

10 ай бұрын

I remember trying to go down the slide and getting my skirt caught at the very top of the 10 story slide. Had to go home after school and explain to my mother how that happened. Kids back then in the '50s were tough as nails, even the little girls who wore dresses because that's what little girls wore back then. Talk about going down a hot slide, try doing it in a skirt! Nothing between hot metal and tender young skin. We'd throw dirt on the slide to help cool it down and also made it slicker!

@katiedrew4708

10 ай бұрын

autumn7ful Maybe 4th grade I swung up as high as I could, let go and jumped. Landed wrong, fractured my elbow. It was the last day of school!

@rayburnyarborough4695

10 ай бұрын

Dry Bar Comedy is the best!

@sandragrant1785

9 ай бұрын

I'm 1952 also. I was scared of the playgrounds, only sitting in and twisting in the swings. But I remember them fondly.

@tomklebine720

8 ай бұрын

Do you remember wax paper on the metal slides?

Thinking I just found my new favorite comedian...memories...

I had that metal slide attached to my swing set back in the 60's lol. This guys hysterical 😂

this is so true . my sister was on a swing in the 80s and she swung so high , she flew like superman off the swing . but she was fine . probably a bit of scratch and that was abt it . the good thing was the playground was filled with grass.

Ahhhh the good’ol days!

Burned my butt sliding down.😅100 degrees.😢no more😮😊

@africanchild4525

10 ай бұрын

I used to slide on a rock behind our house. The butt got bruised but because we had no slides at home we continued to do it because it was fun.

Excellent, lol, Excellent! When the metal sliding board wasn't sliding all you had to do was take wax paper out with you and start buffing up that metal and you were speed racing to the bottom again!!

😂"Like your working."🤣Yep, more please.👍

Crushed it, brother Radley!!!!😅🤣😂

I grew up in those times,still remember a younger kid losing part of her finger sitting on the middle of the seesaw.

@mikeh.7499

10 ай бұрын

I recall sixth grade guy hanging by feet inside jungle jim...let go and head first into the bare pavement that we all played on and had fun!kid conked his head teacher&..oh. o.k.

Oh the memories 🤣🤣

Oh man, the way he describes those details!!! Loved your set! Great work! Keep making everybody laugh :D

I laughed hard at this one!!

Takes me back. We had pop bottle rocket fights . Good times

Very funny! I'm pretty sure I remember people running around and shocking kids after going down the plastic slides during my elementary school recess. There's a big build up of static electricity after you slide down one of those. And monkey bars and things to climb on do help kids learn to balance. Learning to fall correctly should be included in physical education.

You never see kids climbing trees anymore or a kid just sitting in one after climbing it to the best sitting in the tree spot.

Hilarious! (Also, Nice to see a gentleman, my age, who hasn't let himself go...)

Non stop laughing! Love this guy - great set.

Great routine. Grew up in 70s and 80s with metal slides, monkey bars, swings with big chains and flimsy plastic seats. Riding bikes all day, getting lost in the woods, building tree houses with nails and splintery wood. We had awesome neighborhoods growing up with lots of kids around. And we used to traverse the busy streets end of school year to the local zoo and park for a picnic and to ride bumper cars and other who-knows-how-long-ago-inspected rides.

We had a plastic slide and they can be dangerous too. Don't grab onto the under side of the slide or you will slice your hand open. If you are heavy it will bow and collapse in the middle. And if there was a chip in the slide and a piece of that was sticking out that would snag your shirt and would be nearly choked to death. And electric shock just by touching it.

So so true, and we never gave safety a thought, we healed in a day or two. And that metal merry-go-round we got to going really fast. All back when kids could be kids. If we got hurt, it was called "growing pains" in the '60s (pre seatbelt days). Thank you, Roger, for pulling out the time machine. It was fun to travel back in time. Again, Thank You.

@laureldonald6213

10 ай бұрын

I remember around 1966, coming home from school and my older brother was in bed after an injury on the merry go round. He tried jumping on while it was spinning really fast, didn't make it and he was sent flying with his head hitting the swing set leg, splitting his head and needing stitches! 😬

@still-DJ

10 ай бұрын

Yes, and that merry go round didn't feel a darn thing. I'll bet he was right back on it. That's just how we kids were. Tough Americans. Have a great weekend.

Yup. Growing up in the 70s and 80s it was all burning hot metal monkey bars and slides, and swings all on asphalt 🤣

Omg how well can we all relate to the old playground stories?? Lmao. ..but he forgot that there'd also be broken glass on the ground from the teenagers who were there drinking the night before

Everytime I hear stories about the metal slide of death I swear I can feel the experiences as if I was just on one of those things. I am so glad I am a younger Gen Xer who got to experience the more fun and dangerous playground equipment. 😆

@seedsoflove7684

10 ай бұрын

Metal slides are a nightmare. Plastic is better. But those days of biking alone were amazing.

“Stupid should hurt.”

So true, hot metal and asphalt. Those were the days.

GENERATION X: *_"We've all been there!" Yep! We were tough kids!_*

We rode bikes down the rode knowing a barbed wire fence was. Great fun😂😂😂😂

@blueeyes3

10 ай бұрын

True, good old days, was watching the ignoramace (spelling intentional) boys pee on electric fences. 😅😂 Country towns!

@PleaseNThankYou

10 ай бұрын

I did that on a Shetland pony. I didn't know about the barbed wire... but he did. Luckily, the chicken feathers had piled up so high behind the coop that when he threw me off, it covered most of the barbs.

@majoroldladyakamom6948

10 ай бұрын

Rode down the road... ⚘️

We learned cause & effect, and consequences of our actions. One playground game I never hear about is Crack the Whip. It seemed I was always the poor kid at the end who went flying. 😅

@BrownEyedGirl1367

10 ай бұрын

I had forgotten all about this game! 😂

This guy is amazing I’m dying😂😂😂

Ah, yes. Dodge Ball...the game where if you didn't want to get hammered by the ball, you just learned to run faster! 🤣 We used to dare each other on the swing set to see who could swing the highest AND jump from the seat at its highest point. Our teachers NEVER once told us to stop and NO ONE DIED! We'd get that Merry Go Round as fast as we could get it to spin. No one flew off. I went to a rural school so our equipment was on dirt. We played TAG aka Touch And Go too. We played flag football with a skosh of tackle involved. Sadly, Dodge Ball and TAG have been determined as too violent to play and there are no more Merry Go Rounds because they too are considered dangerous. It's beyond ridiculous! We used to swing out of the hayloft and in mid-air hope we weren't going to overshoot that big hay pile. I know I did several times. We used to swing on a rope and land in the river. Let kids be kids. My Grandma and Mom both used to tell overprotective Moms, "They bend before they break. Stop hovering." 😁 ~ APRIL LIPKE

@raymondschneider5217

10 ай бұрын

Country school kid, too. Our playground was on dirt, too; swing feet were cemented into the gro9und. Slide was steel; abt 12 feet high. Yeah, good ol' days, huh? Y'all Be safe!

@davidmihevc3990

8 ай бұрын

Holy crap! This brings back so many memories. Yep, we had all that stuff too, mostly all on pavement though. Lots of steel. We had an awesome merry go round. We would takes turns pushing or riding. We would get that thing spinning so fast, you could hang off the sides horizontally. I'm totally serious. I remember a couple times kids losing their grip and flying off, but they would be right back to do it again. Man, those were great times. I went back to the school years later and sadly , all that stuff was gone.

This is so accurate!

Thanks! Great stuff! I grew up that way too. You brought back painful but good memories. Lol

My sister, my older sister, literally did fall swinging so high that she went right over and around fell onto the gravel had to be taken to the hospital. We weren’t sucky Poohs, like the kids are treated nowadays.

I experienced those steel monkey bars and slides that were as hot as a frying pan! Good times!!!

@sylviavega-ortiz3006

5 ай бұрын

Yes and we had calluses on our palms!

Born in 1962, I am so familiar with the metal playground. Our metal slide worked really well. It also had a hump in the middle so that when you hit it just right, your butt didn't touch the slide for a fraction of a second. 😂❤

Need the entire special 😂😂

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 '& you never saw that brother again' so hilarious

Very funny and delightful to watch. Those were the days.What a handsome,stunning looking man!

I think that last joke touched the young man in the audience. Looks like he got a painful visual. Looks like he can keep it to himself. Good kid.

So spot on

I went FLYING off a merry-go-round! I landed so far away, the kids cheered. Got some serious road rash 😂

Fell out of a two-story window when I was 7. Landed in broken glass and broke my wrist. The response was, “That’s what you get for being disobedient”.

When he talked about going up the slippery metal ladder, my knee instantly started to hurt. And it was right in the spot that the step would bang against my knee when I slipped on the ladder. I remember that pain well! 😂

We used to get strawberries on our legs and butt from the hot slides. Also the merry go rounds where we would hang off with our heads down, lol. We survived!!! Parents were hanging out socializing and smoking, they only bothered with us when we came crying. The good ole days for sure.

More like gravel

I remember swinging on the " swing set " and when I swung backward, I also leaned forward while in the swing. I don't need to tell you . . . . . . . . . I fell out of the swing, *right on my face ! ! ! ! !* . 😒🙄

Man! How accurate! Remember the metal Merry go round that would sling us into orbit till the gravel stopped us and we had the scabs to show off!😅

This guy needs a 40 minute special

We would take pieces of waxed paper with us to the park, sit on them and go down the slide to make it slick. Then sit back and watch other kids go rocketing down and skid along the dirt at the bottom.

You forgot one important thing. On the slides we would take waxed paper and go over it with that. Boy did it really slide after you waxed it. Thanks for the memories.

Roger Radley you're so descriptive in the funniest way 🤣 👏👏👏

We had the flying gate & the flying swing. Dangerous & so fun. Split my lower lip open (bit it falling)on the metal monkey bars, 4 stitches. Still wear that scar with pride!! Use to ride the rollers (were the milk cans came down) at the local creamery on the weekend!!!

This was GREAT and what memories! Born in the 1950s I grew up playing on all these things that could burn you, rip your skin off, break your bones or knock your teeth out. Good times! And because we weren’t content with just that we had a brook and an enormous culvert behind our house in “the woods” where you could go rafting into it in warm weather or sledding into it when the brook froze. You could go miles through that culvert and end up a town away and fall through the ice if it wasn’t solid enough. It’s fun and adventures todays kids will never have, so sad

THIS is hysterical. For my childhood in the 50-60s and my kids in the 70-80s

3:50 swing all the way around. I was that kid? Weren't you? Get over and around. The slack left me guessing. So I sometimes had to jump. In the dirt. Great times.

Even though I was born in '99, I lived in rural Kansas with a park that was built in like the 50's or 60's right across the street from my house. And I had 8 siblings so there was all types of tomfoolery going on. There was a jungle gym completely made from metal that idk how many times I bumped my head on. And the metal slide was the best to go down in the rain because you did get shot like a rocket.

No matter who tells this joke, never gets old.😂

This is my first time seeing him…I had to search thru the comments to find his name. They really should put the comedians names along with the title DryBar. Roger Ridley! Hysterical!

My husband worked for a company that took out the old metal playgrounds and put in the new plastic ones. He brought the old metal one and we put it up. We had the swings, jungle gym, teeter totter, merry round out in the backyard. We were the most popular house on the street. He didn’t get the slide but we had a metal ladder going up into a tree that also has a tire swing. We had a big pile of dirt that the kids dug up and messed with . We had bon fires and homemade peach ice cream for birthday parties. We went out peach picking first which was fun too. As they go older there might a dozen or so teens dueling with “light sabers” they’d made. The kids were good and they policed themselves since they knew I’d shut them down if there were problems. I enjoyed it and I knew most of the local kids even as they got older. That is a great protection to keep your teens safe. My kids knew they could make me the bad guy to save face if they were being pressured to do something stupid. The other kids knew I would beat their as$. I still have all that equipment. I’m thinking of selling it if I find the right buyer. Someone who lets kids be kids. I also showed my kids how to safely use hand tool. I felt it was important to know which kid needed to wear a helmet most of the times as early as possible.

I remember in the 50’s we were seeing who could jump out of the swing and go the farthest. The winner complained about his foot hurting, but we decided it wasn’t broken as he could wiggle his toes. The next day I went to his house and he had wires holding the bones of his foot together.

@ghhm2705

9 ай бұрын

😂

Those were my times. The merry go round was a killer!

Ahhhhhh, memories of the 50's and 60's. The "good old days"!

Those really were the good days of life 😂 6:25

Too funny. I was one of those kids that tried defying gravity on the swings, I however had a good grip but it was a jolt when the swing came down to a quick stop....and yes it was logging chain bolted to a plank.

He brought back memories of the good old days. Iife was good

Cold hard steel on asphalt! 2nd day of third grade, I was doing cherrypickers, lost my grip and landed on my forehead...5 stitches. I learned never to do that again!😊

@pamelameckley5040

10 ай бұрын

At recess, watched the kid go down the metal slide but not down the slide part... Straight down to the ground.. the concrete. Knocked him out, the rest of us surrounded him, thinking he was dead. Good times. 😖😵😬

Hes hilarious. Took me right back to my childhood of metal monkey bars and metal rocket monkey bars. We did have fun though. 😂😂😂😂

Roger, I just brought up my wine through my nose! 😂 This was so freakin' hilarious! Thanks so much.

Exactly how it was in the 60's. Our playground anthem would have been "Another One Bites the Dust"

I laughed until my sides hurt on that ending.

The playground I grew up with at my elementary school was made of wood and was built into a bed of small stones. This was in the late 90's.