July 14, 1968: The caption for this photo calls the slide a “specially waxed concrete slide in a park on Beechwood Boulevard.” (Post-Gazette) Two experts on the park’s design - John Nemmers, associate chair of UF’s Special and Area Studies Collection, and Susan Rademacher, parks curator at Pittsburgh Parks Conservatory - haven’t been able to track down the exact date the slide opened.
Mosites charged the parks department for overtime when employees from Simonds were late in approving the slide’s slope before he poured the concrete. In a letter to the director of the Parks Department, Philip Simonds said the contractor was the most inefficient and uncooperative he’d worked with in his 22 years in the business. The letters show a fraught relationship between the Simonds design firm and contractor M.G. The coated hill, which designers called the magic carpet, is placed on the same slope as the concrete slide, connecting the “tot play yard and the intermediate level.” Though the records are incomplete, a chain of memos housed in the John Ormsbee Simonds Collection at the University of Florida sheds some light on the slide’s construction. This gentle slope is coated with slippery plastic.” (Pittsburgh Press) “We just decided to do away with the grass stains and mud.” April 22, 1962: “A modern approach to the time-honored custom of rolling down a hill. Simonds described how they coated a hillside in cement and plastic to create a slippery hill. In an April 1962 Pittsburgh Press story, Mr. Simonds of Simonds and Simonds, the designers of the playground. “What child doesn’t like to roll down a hillside,” asked John O. Thinking beyond the typical playground features, the park’s designers used the hilly terrain to their advantage. The Frick parklet was said to be the “most imaginative” of the new parklets, according to a 1962 Post-Gazette article. Plans for the playground were approved in 1959 as part of a city-wide initiative to build several new parklets. Pittsburgh Public Works September 12, 2018 The slide was once red, and would be painted blue years later. The playground likely opened in early 1960. Our Architects pulled its design plan which was approved for construction by in April of 1959. We’ve received many inquiries on Frick Park’s Blue Slide Playground. Frick was reportedly not thrilled with the whole idea. So in 1919, Frick gave the 131-acre site - which the blue side area currently occupies part of - to the city, along with $2 million for a maintenance fund.
“A park for the children of Pittsburgh,” she said, according to the historical society’s records. When Hellen was becoming a debutante, Henry asked his daughter what she wanted as a present. If not for Hellen Clay Frick, the playground could’ve been the site of Henry Clay Frick’s mansion, according to Michael Ehrmann, president of the Squirrel Hill Historical Society. Officially called Frick Park Playground, the playground makes up just a portion of the larger Frick Park, the biggest in the city at 644 acres. Miller said the opening track was meant to simulate walking into the playground. “Blue Slide Park,” which didn’t receive the level of critical acclaim as Miller’s later work, features the slide as a blue streak of paint on the cover. “Sometimes I just wanna go/ Back to Blue Slide Park, the only place I call home/ I hope it’s never all gone, don’t think it’s ever all gone,” the Point Breeze native sings on the album’s opener, “English Lane,” named after the street at the entrance to the playground. Mayor Bill Peduto said he wouldn’t oppose the name, though he said the request should come from the community. And a petition has circulated calling on the city to rename the park in his honor. When his record label scheduled a vigil, the park was the obvious choice, and thousands of mourners gathered at the top of the slide to remember the Allderdice graduate. In addition to the park’s role in his early career, the blue slide has provided mourning fans a tangible connection to Miller’s story. Miller, born Malcolm McCormick, died on Friday, Sept.
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Some called the playground on Beechwood Boulevard “Crazy Park.” To others, the Squirrel Hill landmark was “blue slide Frick.” But to Mac Miller, it was “Blue Slide Park,” and after he released his debut album under that name in 2011, it’s hard to imagine the playground being called anything else. Ava Gerami, 19, of Cleveland places flowers in honor of rapper Mac Miller during a vigil, Tuesday, Sept.
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