I remember summers in my…

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I remember summers in my neighborhood and how we couldn’t wait for school to get out so we could spend all our time at the park! The park on the conduit in South Ozone Park was our place! Boy we really had fun there! We did everything there, we played handball until the wee hours of the morning when we were teenagers, we could sit on the benches and play chess or checkers on those tables that had the boards set right in them, I thought that was the coolest thing, you didn’t need to bring anything to the park just your bike and friends! I now live in Arizona and have lived in Utah for years and the first time I saw a park in Utah I thought how strange it was that there were no parks like we had and I felt sad that the kids were missing alot of fun! I long for those hot summer days sometimes when life was easier and all that concerned us was a good Pensy-Pinkie or spalding and if we could get to the park before the big guys so we could get a court.I loved growing up in New York and wouldn’t trade it for the world!

I grew up playing Skully…

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I grew up playing Skully in Brooklyn and Queens in the late fifties. We were never sure how the name of the game was spelled, because there was no occasion to ever actually write the name. We used to melt candle wax into the bottle caps to give them weight, and for some reason, the beer bottle caps were always considered to be the best to have. One of the terms of the game that I haven’t yet seen in various versions of written rules I’ve come across is “Heading for the Hills”. This was when your opponent became a killer and needed to hit you three times in a row to get you out, so you would keeping blasting your own cap down the block so he could hopefully never catch you. “Heading for the Hills” was not really “fair” and usually not allowed but sometimes it was, depending on the mood of the players that day.

We did “once-twice-three-shoot”…

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We did “once-twice-three-shoot” but choosing up usually meant that opposing captains would take turns alternating hand over hand on a bat. Whichever guy’s hand reached the end would have to swing it in a circle three times without letting go. If successful, that person would get to pick first (At least that’s what my feeble memory tells me).

Dear all. I’m the administrator…

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Dear all. I’m the administrator of The Norwegian center for dokumentation of Children Culture in Stavanger Norway. I have read with great interest your messages, most of them are registered in my book “Barnet i liv og lek” (The Child in life and play) published by The Universcity Press in Oslo. My archive copy is datet 1983 the 3rd edition. However, I regret to say that it is not in sale anymore. The ISBN number is 82-00-06394. The melody that are used for En, to, tre, O’Leavy (One, two three O*leavy) are One little, two little, three little Indians, four little, five litle, six little Indian, seven little, eitht little, nine little Indians, ten little Indian boys – men. My name is Alice, my husbands name is Arne etc are used in the same way in Norway. The names are of course Norwegian. Hope this can be of interest for someone?

hi, im 12 years old and…

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hi, im 12 years old and my friends and I love this clapping song), this clapping song is said fast, i tried my best 2 remember it, usually my best friend sings it, i just humm and do the actions to it.Its very fun. when Mary had a steamboat, her steam boat had a bell, (ding, ding) Miss Mary went to heaven, her steamboat went to, hello operator, gimme #9, and if u dont connect me, i’ll kick your big, behind the yellow curtains there was a piece of glass, miss Mairy sat upon it, and hurt her little, assssssk me no more questions, i’ll tell you no more lies, the boys are in the washroom, zipping up their, flies are in the city, bees are in the park, miss Mary and her boyfriend are kissing in the d-a-r-k, dark as (and i dont remeber the rest, sorry)

I found this site while…

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I found this site while trying to find rhymes to a game I used to play in the 70s growing up in the UK. We called it “2 ball” – it sounds a lot like the 1,2,3 Alary game a lot of people have mentioned here. We had 2 balls that we sort of juggled against a wall, while chanting rhymes. The more difficult ones involved you missing bouncing one of the balls on the ground, or under your leg, or on the ground while spinnnig around just in time to catch them, while keeping the other ball going against the wall. Does anyone remember any of the rhymes? My daughter would love to learn some, but for the life of me, I can’t remember…

My first kiss came out of…

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My first kiss came out of nowhere. We’d both been invited to a college party of no spectacular proportions where a bunch of our mutual friends were congregated. I liked dancing, but I must admit that I liked seeing him even more. He’s a terrific person and can always make me laugh. It was nearly night’s end when he decided that it was time for him to go home. I walked him out to his car and he offered to let me sit on the passenger’s side. Before I could comment on how I would miss him, he leaned in and kissed me. At first it made me feel excited and dazed, but now it’s just a warm, happy feeling I’ll remember always.

when does the try outs for…

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when does the try outs for the BX and Mann stilkball teams start….email i would like to try and make a team…..