Follow the link for a sweet collection of 70’s playground equipment. I remember the big rocket ship style ones. Howard Johnson’s (now Day’s Inn) over on Howell Mill and I-75 had one like that. We used to have birthdays there sometimes.
I wish there were still playgrounds like this. Yeah, the kids could get more hurt, but what a lot of fun.
Playgrounds From the 70’s - DivineCaroline
Michael Massing of the Columbia Journalism Review digs up some startling info that helps explain why network TV news is knee-deep in FAIL while National Public Radio thrives:
Katie Couric’s annual salary is more than the entire annual budgets of NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered combined. Couric’s salary comes to an estimated $15 million a year; NPR spends $6 million a year on its morning show and $5 million on its afternoon one. NPR has seventeen foreign bureaus (which costs it another $9.4 million a year); CBS has twelve. Few figures, I think, better capture the absurd financial structure of the network news.