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Something tells me..
By jared mcnabb
Mon, 08/12/2019 - 12:02pm
their parents were not concerned about hot turtle statues on this playground
Nah. Kids were sturdier back
By anon
Mon, 08/12/2019 - 3:47pm
Nah. Kids were sturdier back then. Nobody was allergic to bread, either.
Sturdier?
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 08/12/2019 - 6:57pm
Nope. Just died a lot more often.
citations needed
By GFN
Mon, 08/12/2019 - 10:16pm
n/t
Seriously?
By adamg
Tue, 08/13/2019 - 9:56am
You've never heard of measles, polio and smallpox?
The site below focuses on numbers from around the world, but the US isn't really that exceptional. I found it with roughly 30 seconds of Googling on "childhood mortality rates 1910;" I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to find more US-based stats.
https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality
Not to mention
By jmeltzer
Tue, 08/13/2019 - 8:15pm
diphtheria, typhus, tuberculosis ...
the wood line
By bostnkid
Mon, 08/12/2019 - 12:06pm
my grampa told me about this. it was an early mbta line. you just jumped on and hoped for the best. he said it was way more efficient than the red line
A seesaw is a lot like the MBTA
By BostonDog
Mon, 08/12/2019 - 1:47pm
Lots of bumping up and down but you never get anywhere.
Overheard on the Green Line
By anon
Mon, 08/12/2019 - 7:31pm
I was taking the Green Line once as it went through the especially bumpy and screeching part from Park to Boylston and out. A 5-year old boy, clearly new to riding the T, frustratedly complained to his dad, "This is like a roller coaster but less fun!"
Those Little Rascals
By mangycougar
Mon, 08/12/2019 - 12:13pm
This was the photo taken right before Spanky and Alfalfa showed up with the shenanigans.....
OMG density!
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 08/12/2019 - 6:58pm
Look how close together those multi-family buildings are! The children will suffer and the city will be destroyed!
Citations needed.
By Beanzzz
Tue, 08/13/2019 - 7:12am
Citations needed.
Actually, poor people living
By anon
Tue, 08/13/2019 - 3:47pm
Actually, poor people living in cramped living conditions such as high density buildings creates dangerous conditions in which disease spreads more easily. If you had family in tenement housing, your grandparents would have told you stories of this from their childhood. There's nothing funny about it.
I'll Try
By Suldog
Mon, 08/12/2019 - 8:54pm
West Roxbury?
Suldog
And the answer is
By GFN
Mon, 08/12/2019 - 10:18pm
What???
The Answer
By Boston City Archives
Tue, 08/13/2019 - 9:23am
Thanks for playing, folks! This photo shows children "tilting" (see-sawing) at William Wirt Warren Playground on Waverly St in Brighton in about 1906. (The photo was in the 1907 School Committee Report)
What!!
By Lee
Tue, 08/13/2019 - 12:23pm
No helmets!!!?
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