re: #175 stpaulbear

When I was growing up, a local park had a metal spiral slide that used to be part of a factory’s fire escape. When my sisters and I went to the park, mom would give each of us a sheet of waxed paper that we would sit on while going down the slide. We had it so slick that kids would go shooting full speed off the end of the landing.

The munitions plant where I worked had massive old-school slides so you could un-ass the building when the explosions started. Some of them were 3 stories high and would dump the lucky escapees a couple hundred feet from the supersonic blast front. We had no records of a successful use.

Abandoned slide (different plant):