Old School Playgrounds

Location: Black River Falls, Wisconsin
Year: 2008
Year that it felt like: 1984

We crashed in Black River Falls the night before from an exhausting 10hr trek. When we arose the next morning, we were transported back into the 80's when playgrounds were carefree, unsafe, and still had merry-go-rounds, big paddled seated teeter-totters, and steep metal slides that would sear you buns in the hot sun. The playground also featured springy animals that you could rock back and forth on that actually had some give, not like springies today that just go eh, eh, eh, like stop and go traffic. The local downtown was something out of Leave it to Beaver. The people were friendly, 1 old time hardware store, 2 traffic lights, and an old clock tower that donged every hour with pretty music. They also had a general store that still carried your favorite candy bars example: Charleston Chews, Big Hunk, Chico sticks, Fun-dips, ginormous and super ginormous jaw breakers, O'Henry's, Sixlets, Zagnuts .....Oh! I could go on and on because I'm such a candy masticater. The merchant even served old fashioned ice cream with a Whopper carefully placed in the bottom of the cone so the ice cream wouldn't trickle through. Can you imagine what their 4th of July must taste like? Wish there were more antique towns like this.