I Feel Like Exercising in Bad Polyester

[elfs]

Parcourse

There's a little park near the grocery warehouse where Omaha and I do monthly shopping that was obviously intended, once upon a time, as a "stopping" station for joggers and bicyclists, since that's just about the only way you can reach it, that has all sorts of little strength and balance exercises. I'm a little annoyed that someone destroyed station number six (that's the big gap between the two stations in the middle of the photograph above), because that was the push-up station.

Omaha and Kouryou-chan played on the balance beams, trying to do the exercise backward.

70s Art and Design, Female


70s Art and Design, Male

What I like most about this little park is the art style on the instructional placards. It's like canonical late 1970 design aesthetic: look at the hair, especially on the male figurine. And that typography, it's like something out of Saturn Nine or Moonraker. The lines on the pants are also telling.

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[gromm.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of the Central Park trail system in Burnaby.

The whole park used to be an Army training facility before about 1950something, but I think the obstacles have remained the same, and are remarkably similar to this.

One thing that has remained the same are the trees. They're obviously older than 60 years.