re: What did you call these pieces of playground equipment growing up? UPDATED

SeeSaw
Never had a name
Monkey Bars
Never seen this before

South La 80s-90s

It's pretty clear the general consensus is

See-saw
Merry-go-round
Monkey bars
Shai-Hulud


And all the teeter-totter people are just weirdos

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Poor people toys.

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These were on every playground in the 60’s

We used to call the first one a teeter totter. But we also called the water fountain a bubbler. Wisconsin.

See saw
Didn't call it anything
Monkey bars
Never saw this one

Pensacola 1980s

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See Saw
Merry Go Round
Monkey Bars
Never saw the fourth one.

Germantown, TN mid 70s

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Same. Plaquemine, LA 80s

See saw
Merry go round
Monkey bars
(We weren't fancy enough in tilmans corner circa 1975 to have something that fancy ...so no idea what that is)

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see-saw and merry-go-round

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This.

Both were fun if you were more physically gifted than other kids. The see-saw was great for suddenly leaping off of when you cohort was up in the air and watching them bust their arse and the merry-go-round was great for spinning harder and harder until other kids started flying off into space.

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The trend I'm seeing is that weirdos that call coke "soda" or "pop" called a seesaw a teeter-totter.

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We used "soda" or "pop" to just say "soft drink" generically w/o any specific reference to brand/type.

If you specifically wanted a Coke or a Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Orange Crush, or a 7-Up, you asked for it by name. If you went to friends and wanted to know if they had any soft drinks at all, you'd ask if you could have a 'soda' or a 'pop', or maybe even 'soda-pop'. Then you'd find what kinds they had, "OK, I'll take a Coke, you can have the 7-Up".