castles made of sand

"If sandboxes are not in protected areas, people run their dogs through them," he said. "You don't want kids to take dog waste and put it in their mouths." So when the city (New York City) began refurbishing playgrounds, in the nineteen-eighties, sandboxes were generally phased out.

~Daniel Radosh, The New Yorker, Comeback Sand Men, 1/29/07
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Really makes you want to go to the beach.