Friday, March 26, 2010

Turtle Park Playground, St. Louis, Bob Casilly, 1996






Thanks to reader Guy Fawkes (is it really you, Guy?) for pointing out another playground by Bob Cassily, founder of the amazing St. Louis City Museum, consisting of gigantic sculptures of turtles.  

I always like it when playground animals represent real local species...Turtle Park has "a snapping turtle, a soft-shelled turtle, a red-eared slider, three box turtles and a stinkpot along with a snake that is curled to form an area for sitting and a serpent taking a bite out of the Highway 40 overpass. Seven large eggs, three with emerging turtles, are used to make a sitting area." [source]

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