Backyard playground of Mr. Rudolph St. Louis of Charlestown | Boston Public Library

Backyard playground of Mr. Rudolph St. Louis of Charlestown

Backyard playground of Mr. Rudolph St. Louis of Charlestown. Plot 40x60 ft. accommodates his own four children and some fifty of their friends. In six years has accumulated a number of slides and swings and teters, a wading pool and shower, a stationary airplane, and finally a 14x5 ft. swimming pool. All the equipment has been hand-made in spare time from odds and ends. To make the pool water tight, had to weld 2,000 screws into the give lining.

Photo by James Gordon, taken November 1946. From the Boston Public Library Charlestown Lantern Slides.
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