Talk:Hank Ketcham

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Ketcham and playgrounds
Ketcham's most lasting effect may be his financing and co-designing the Dennis the Menace Playground, Monterey, California, 1956 which has had a lasting effect on children's play spaces. The public playground of the 1950s child was an unpainted metal slide, a swing set with flat board seats, and, if lucky, a three person spinning turntable. When I first saw the Monterey playground in 1964 I was stunned, almost shocked, by the complex play structures, which Ketcham, an artist, had made into giant colorful Mondrians and Hans Arps. For the children it was not only thrilling new ways to use their major muscles, it was like playing in a giant art installation. When I returned 25 years later its lessons had been copied all over the country, and it no longer looked radical. Sadly, the ambulance-chaser legal climate of the 25 years since then has shut many of the devices that thrilled the children most. Much written about. See https://playgroundology.wordpress.com/2010/03/28/dennis-is-dead-long-live-dennis/ Profhum (talk) 02:05, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

Son's name?
This article states that his son, the inspiration for the strip, was actually named Dennis. But if you go to the Dennis the Menace page and elsewhere on the internet, in real life he was named for his father: Hank Ketcham, Jr. Why the discrepancy? Kelelain (talk) 00:21, 17 October 2021 (UTC)