Peanuts Gym

Hi all. The Retroist over at www.retroist.com posted yesterday about the Snoopy Sno Cone Maker. It got me thinking about other Snoopy toys that I grew up with in the 70′s. One particularly came to mind. Jump in the wayback machine and head back to 1971. That’s the year the Peanuts Gym came out. I always called it the Snoopy Swing Set, but apparently that’s not the official name. The gym consisted of a slide, standard swing, face to face swing, and a motorcycle-style swing with a plastic propeller on it depicting Snoopy’s flying ace biplane. Also, at the top of the swing was a plastic board with a hole cut into it depicting Charlie Brown and his ball glove. You could throw a ball through it for target practice. I was never good at that.

What, if any, kind of themed swing set did you grow up with?

***An addendum to this post***

Just wanted to update this post a bit. In keeping with the theme of the captainscast website, I decided to span the generation gap between father and son. I talked to my son Ben regarding the Peanuts gym and what I grew up with for a swing set. I am pretty proud of this aluminum structure. His reaction to it was lukewarm at best. He comes from the newer generation that has been raised with Little Tikes plastic super-fortresses, or the even more impressive wood-built playsets with rock-climbing walls, rope swings, and motorized gun turrets. Just kidding about the gun-turrets.