Excerpts from a longread at
Collectors Weekly:
[R]emoving and replacing playground equipment takes money, so a certain
amount of vintage playground equipment survived into the next
millennium—but it’s vanishing fast. Fortunately, Brenda Biondo,
a freelance journalist turned photographer, felt inspired to document
these playscapes before they’ve all been melted down. Her photographs
capture the sculptural beauty and creativity of the vintage apparatuses,
as well as that feeling of nostalgia you get when you see a piece of
your childhood. After a decade of hunting down old playgrounds, Biondo
published a coffee-table book, 2014’s Once Upon a Playground: A Celebration of Classic American Playgrounds, 1920-1975, which includes both her photographs of vintage equipment and pages of old playground catalogs that sold it.
More discussion and a gallery of photos at
Collector's Weekly.
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