Makeshift Playground Death Traps
Makeshift Playground Death Traps
Granite Block Pile. Located opposite California St off Merrimack, a small road led to a ship yard. This defunct shipyard contained the granite blocks up to around 1979. They were removed a short while after that. The large granite blocks must have been used once for ship building. There were approximately a hundred or so large granite blocks that were piled haphazardly which produced small caves and tunnels. A child’s dream and a parent’s nightmare.
See the Map Site for the location of this place.
Sledding Hill- Many a child flew down this hill unsupervised in sleds and toboggans in the dead of winter. The hill was steep and it bottomed out into a sand pit. I remember the best toboggan to use was those wooden ones with the curved wooden front that could hold at least four individuals. Actually, they held a lot more. The problem with those toboggans was you couldn’t steer them. You could describe the ride down the hill as scary, fast and unpredictable. You prayed that your trip down wouldn’t see you leave the approximately 15 foot wide smoothed out, and iced up road, until you made it to the bottom.
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