Cold War Era Rocket Ship Playgrounds

The above work is credited to Artist Lauren Orchowski.  She created a great photographic series of 23 Cold War era rocket-theme playground structures, called Rocket Science, made with an 8 x 10 inch view camera between 2005 and 2008 all over the United States. [Source: Lauren Orchowski, via Gizmodo]

This brought back back memories of my former pre-school in Elkhart, IN (I think it was called Seven Dwarfs Nursery School).  Regardless, we had a very similar rocket ship.  Actually, now that I consider it, I remember most of the playgrounds of my childhood playing host to this fleet of  missle slides. 🙂