WHERE CAN WE BUY PIMPLE…
Light as a feather…stiff…
Light as a feather…stiff as a board…light as a feather stiff as a board… Man, I miss that! It was so cool! That and Ouija boards which were SO real to me back then. Oh, but how we loved to freak each other out! Oh and Sardines in the dark! Where one person would hide and when you found them, you’d would join them until all but one of you was still searching. In the dark made it so much more fun. You could hide almost in plain site and not be found forever! I can remember just waiting for it to get dark and parents to go to sleep. We would turn off all the lights and leave only one small light on (either the one over the stove if the kitchen was near or a light in another room with the door cracked). Everyone wanted to be the first to lay down and have her friends encircle them and start the chant as they were lifted into the air. I don’t think we were all that mean to each other or played tricks. I do remember Amy Boero’s mom’s amazing blueberry pancakes in the morning! Drats, now I want to have a slumber party!
MY BROTHER HECTOR JOHN ARROYO,PLAYED…
MY BROTHER HECTOR JOHN ARROYO,PLAYED STICKBALL FOR A TEAM CALLED THE PRESTO’S FROM 114TH ST.BET 5TH AND MADISON AVE.A FEW OF THE PLAYERS FROM 1930 TO 1941,WHERE HECTOR ARROYO,ROBERT(LEFTY) GREGORY I CAN’T REMEMBER THE LAST NAME OF THE FOLLOWING BUT IF YOU PLAYED AGAINST THEM YOU WILL RECOGNIZE THEM. THERE WAS RENE,GILBERT,KIKE,LOUIS THE BARBERO, TO NAME A FEW. WE PLAYED AGAINST THE DEVILS WITH THERE PLAYERS SUCH AS BENNY,RALPH,VINNIE ETC. WE ALSO PLAYED AGAINST THE ORIGINAL MADISON FLASHES ,WITH BUGGIE,GEORGE ETC, MY BROTHER IS AN ARTIST AND IS LOOKING FOR ANY PHOTOS OF THE YEARS 1930 THRU 1940OF THE HOUSES OR STICKBALL GAMES OR JUST ABOUT ANYTHING IN THE ERA.ALSO IF AVAILABLE A PICTURE OF THE FIREHOUSE ON 114 NEAR MADISON AVE.
About the crab apple fights,I…
About the crab apple fights,I had a friend who thought his dad was crazy as a result of those fights. Then I had to admit we had our own version in Texas. If we got together five dollars, we got 100 lbs of ice. Half of us had the roof, the others had the low ground. We never named it, but I can still dodge pretty well for a big man because of it.
Thought you might be interested…
Does anyone remember this…
This wasn’t really a game…
This wasn’t really a game per se but a form of keep-away. For example — “Selugee from Condoleezza!!!” and everyone would exclude her from the riotous game of keep away.It was commonly used to torture a younger or less powerful child — taking their special toy or mitt. I grew up in suburban New York in the 1950s and 60s. Anyone? Nomi
stickball is coming back…
I still have my two Ginny…
I still have my two Ginny dolls, and the little case with their clothes and shoes. The clothes hung on little hangers. One outfit was a dark blue velvet skating outfit with tiny white skates. Also I loved paper dolls, would make them clothes by tracing around and then coloring them. Do kids even play with paper dolls these days? They were so much fun.