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Does anyone know where I can find historical (“historical” like 1990-95ish) pictures of Auckland? I’m specifically looking for pictures of the playground in Maraetai that I played on as a kid.
There was reported the ‘tallest playground tower’ in south Auckland, but I’m sure the wooden tower in Maraetai with the fireman’s pole was like, 6 stories or more.
It’s actually in South Auckland, if you’re referring to the one you linked.
I’ve tried and failed to find any photos of a Maraetai playground that aren’t current. 6 stories sounds huge! Though it really depends on the height of the stories, because I’ve been in some playgrounds that have multiple stories and as a parent there’s often not a lot of head room. The one you linked is a little over 12 metres tall, so a 6 story playground would probably still end up shorter since that’s 2m per floor. This is assuming the floors were structured like an office building, which they probably weren’t 😆
The photos in the article aren’t great, but it does seem a lot of the top of this one is just for show, you can’t actually climb until you’re 12M off the ground.
Woops, fixed it.
I remember it being crazy tall but then I was like 7 years old so, who knows.
Thanks for checking!
Hey don’t get me wrong, even if it’s only 10 metres tall, that is huge! One of the local playgrounds here has a tower up to a slide (not unlike the one in the article, though less fancy), and that’s probably only 5 meters tall, but it still looks huge. If I was up at the top of the 12m tall one in the article, it would probably give me vertigo!
I know safety standards were lax back then, but 6 stories would be like 20 meters wouldn’t it? Even back then they would think twice for a kids playground at that height.
Playgrounds don’t need to have head space for adults, and don’t need to have space between floors for wires, pipes, etc. So I’d think a maximum of 2m high for a floor, and probably less.
True. Still 12 or more meters is still pretty high for kids!
Agreed! That’s massive!