This swing set was in production for a while. I know because I had it in the early 80s.

I'm not a fan of monopolies or megacorps, and I am in favor of safety regulations... but a huge part of me is sad that you can no longer mail order a house through Sears for a couple grand and just... assemble it yourself.

I grew up in such a house, built in ~1950, from a Sears kit. Two floors, four bedrooms, two baths.

Electrical was also done by the owner and was absolutely not up to code but that eventually got fixed. Was a decent house. Arguably much sturdier than some of the shit built in the 80s.

That set looks pretty baller.

And don't let those sedate chairs fools you, they can catch some altitude, and it's only more terrifying because you've got nothing to keep your butt in the seat.

I am so used to BCE terminology nowadays that I was confused what BC meant until you pulled out the Cretian artifact. I wanna know more about that. Do you happen to have any sources or articles about it?

Yeah, those things were death traps without the cement.

We had one configured like this in our midwest USA yard in the 80s. It's wild that they went unchanged for that long. And, like other commenters, my siblings and I would make it walk up and down the yard. It was about the only thing that could get us to cooperate.

I just go to a public park near me. Crazy that we moved away from public infrastructure as much as possible in order to accommodate the automobile and large houses.