Giant Slides

Subject: Giant Slides Fri 16 Nov 2007, 9:37 pm

Does anyone recall these? They were (and occasionally, still, are) different from the smaller, soft variety which entertains children today. Giant slides were huge, magnified versions of the backyard and schoolyard slide .... sometimes with as many as six (or more?) lanes placed side-to-side. Sliders whizzed down while sitting on burlap or cotton sacks. And for kids of the 1960s in Dallas, Texas, nothing beat a visit to Ashburn's Ice Cream on a Saturday, followed by multiple trips down the Giant Slide on Central Expressway.

There also was a giant slide at Six Flags for a while, and likely at many other locations, but by the mid-1980s or thereabouts, they seemed to have faded from the landscape.

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http://letajoy.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/social20.jpg

http://www.fundwaysofil.com/rides/rideimages/014.jpg

We encountered one of the three-laned variety recently at a small-town fair Smile

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Subject: Re: Giant Slides Sat 17 Nov 2007, 2:23 pm

Yep I seen a few of those and been down a few of them but I was't little HA HA My bag got stuck one time from grease being there or somethin. The kids had a BIG laugh HA HA