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Slip Sliding & Away We Go!
In my younger days we would go to a long slide in the Berkeley hills Rose Garden and ride down it on waxed cardboard. It was free and fun to do in the middle of the night.
This slide is in Detroit and charges for the ride:
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A ride down the Giant Slide at Belle Isle Park has been a mainstay of Detroit summers since 1967. Generations of residents have climbed the steps, scooched their legs into burlap bags and experienced the thrill of swooping down the 50-foot slide.
The slide “has always been for us,” said Brandie Shannon, 38, who grew up near the park.
So when the slide reopened last week after being closed for two years because of the coronavirus pandemic, Ms. Shannon headed to the park with her 17-year-old daughter, Taylor. But this was not the same breezy ride of her childhood.
Instead of a leisurely glide down, Taylor went bump, bump, bump, bump — crash.
She bumped her head and lost her phone, headphones, glasses, a shoe and even a sock. “The next thing you know,” she said, “I was sliding into a gate.”
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There is a video > https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/u...e-detroit.html
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