"Creative and imaginative" playground equipment, such as pictured above, will be used extensively by the city's Parks Department as it develops park playgrounds throughout the city. A department spokesman said such equipment is receiving "extensive use" by children in the area of the playgrounds. The playground at the top is in the North Campus Heights Subdivision and features a circus theme, while a western motif is being used at Veterans Memorial Park (middle photograph). The bottom photo shows a playground at Virginia Park which employs both the "new" and conventional equipment. The play areas at North Campus Heights and Veterans Memorial parks are filled with sand, while the area at Virginia Park is filled with wood chips and shavings. Lettering on the "stagecoach" at Vets Park reads "Ann Arbor Stage Line." The Parks Department noted that art work and paintings on the circus wagons at the top were done for the city by Mrs. Dorwin Cartwright.