This photo indicates why it is essential to maintain healthy trees above high use areas in parks. A branch that was growing straight from the crook in the above fallen limb was removed. The wood rotted and only a sucker branch remained. When the weight of the sucker branch became greater than the strength of the narrow strip of living wood, the branch fell. Luckily, it did not hit anyone.
Proportionately, these trip and impact hazards would be about a foot and a half high for adults.
Mostly dead limb in silhouette.
This limb should be removed for tree health, and for safety.
Trash Trash Trash. Beauty.
DISC painted all of the other planters downtown except for this one.
No mulch mat beneath this climbing apparatus, but there is exposed concrete in multiple locations.
Exposed concrete
DDOCCK!!!
There used to be covers for the ends of this balance beam. Notice the screw holes.
Exposed concrete
Mulch mat needed
These 4x4 barriers are too close to the apparatus and they are trip and impact hazards. My kids are constantly falling over them, and one even twisted his ankle up one day. They need to be removed.
Clasp is broken.
Cover all exposed concrete with a thick mulch mat.
The distance between the slide support bar and the wooden 4x4 is minimal.
If one jumps from the end of the slide, one can easily hit the wooden 4x4s.
This is missing a bolt to attach the teeter to the spring.
Missing bolt to keep Clifford from rocking too far forward.
Unnecessary tip and impact hazards.
Some bum stole the swinging gate. It was lovely. My kids had fun.
Exposed concrete and bolt ends sticking out from the concrete. They need to be covered to remove impact hazards.
More exposed concrete.
What 2 things are missing in this photograph?
There are 4 bolts sticking at least an inch straight up from the concrete. This is a hazard.
These wonderful swings could use a fresh painting.
This photo indicates why it is essential to maintain healthy trees above high use areas in parks. A branch that was growing straight from the crook in the above fallen limb was removed. The wood rotted and only a sucker branch remained. When the weight of the sucker branch became greater than the strength of the narrow strip of living wood, the branch fell. Luckily, it did not hit anyone. 
Proportionately, these trip and impact hazards would be about a foot and a half high for adults.
Mostly dead limb in silhouette.
This limb should be removed for tree health, and for safety.
Trash Trash Trash. Beauty.
DISC painted all of the other planters downtown except for this one.
No mulch mat beneath this climbing apparatus, but there is exposed concrete in multiple locations.
Exposed concrete
DDOCCK!!!
There used to be covers for the ends of this balance beam. Notice the screw holes.
Exposed concrete
Mulch mat needed
These 4x4 barriers are too close to the apparatus and they are trip and impact hazards. My kids are constantly falling over them, and one even twisted his ankle up one day. They need to be removed.
Clasp is broken. 
Cover all exposed concrete with a thick mulch mat.
The distance between the slide support bar and the wooden 4x4 is minimal.
If one jumps from the end of the slide, one can easily hit the wooden 4x4s.
This is missing a bolt to attach the teeter to the spring.
Missing bolt to keep Clifford from rocking too far forward.
Unnecessary tip and impact hazards.
Some bum stole the swinging gate. It was lovely. My kids had fun.
Exposed concrete and bolt ends sticking out from the concrete. They need to be covered to remove impact hazards.
More exposed concrete.
What 2 things are missing in this photograph?
There are 4 bolts sticking at least an inch straight up from the concrete. This is a hazard.
These wonderful swings could use a fresh painting.
Wow, Tom - I'm a lover of "old school" playgrounds. Having been a child right when the city I grew up in began the transition from metal/concrete structures into the safer plastic ones, I cringe a bit at some of your comments about getting rid of the last of the dinosaurs (specifically, those old metal "death slides", riddled with hazards). Those slides are unbeatable! And we all [or most of us] survived them as little ones. But your kids in the shots really put an important perspective on things. It's great to have them included in the examples - makes one think twice before adhering to the "metal is better" mindset.
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