Circle playground
Circle Playground is located on the former grounds of Circle School on the corner of Lawrence Ave, Fourth Street, AND Pittsburgh Circle. The witch’s hat, teater totter, turtle shell monkey bars, and other playground equipment may be gone, but children still enjoy the swings, twist slide, large field among other things still today.
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Circle playground
According to the book "A Guide to the Old Stone Blast Furnaces in Western Pennsylvania" by Sharp and Thomas. The Homewood Furnace was built in 1858 and was located in Ellwood City, in Park Gate, near the current site of the Copart Auto Salvage Yard. You can read the description of the furnace on Richard Parks' iron furnace website at r2parks.net/Homewood .
I wonder if anyone remembers this furnace being there, or has any photos? Have you heard of this furnace?
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One day at the park (circa 1986) I was with Alan Potter when he decided to take some of the craft paints and go around to paint “HIP HOP” on the back of the main building. I had no idea what it meant. I asked him what on earth it was supposed to mean and he didn’t really know either. He said it was what they painted in the movie “Breakin’” which I still haven’t seen. It looked pretty impressive, Alan was quite the artistic fellow.
I don’t see it in any of the photos so it might not still be there but the park had a ride we called the witche’s hat. It was quite a ride that could lead to some death-defying and frightening moments. Maybe that’s why it is gone now.
The Witch’s Hat! The bestest, funnest, most dangerous piece of playground equipment EVER! There was one of these at a city park in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, back in the 1960s, and my cousins and I used to have a BALL on it! If you were REALLY foolhardy, you’d jump inside and try to avoid being smooshed between the swinging part and the central pole!
It’s too bad cool old playground equipment like slides and swings and teeter-totters and merry-go-rounds are vanishing for fear that some kid might get a bruise or chip a tooth. Eventually playgrounds are going to be little more than big piles of pillows … which is pretty much what the kids of the future will be like also.
Oh yes, great things to do there, hit passing cars with the baseballs, breaking windows at the Marobbatos home stead, a big building to try to hit the balls over, and the ole school building had kids sleep in it over night.
I had to move to the Circle playground after they closed the Shelby playground, for we that was best in all of EC, nice bb field, great games, large sand box, and a wadding pool……..it was great growing up in EC