i kno it differntly…….

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i kno it differntly…. ms mary had a steamboat The steamboat had a bell ms mary went to heaven, The steamboat went to Hello operator Give me number 9 If you disconnect me ill kick you in behind the yellow curtain there was a piece of glass and when ms mary sat upon it drove right up her Ask me no more questions I’ll tell you no more lies the boys are int he bathroom zipping up there flys are in the city the bees are int he park ms mary and boyfriend were kissing in the dark D-A-R-K the dark is in the theatre the theatre is the show and thats all i know i know i know i know i know i know my mother i know i know father i know i know my sister wears a 30m wire lol but i would also really like to know the one wear the girl grows up please email it to me if you get it ok well, u know the number nine thing i kow a different way, it goes miss susie had a steamboat the steamboat had a bell *ding, ding* the steamboat wen to heaven miss susie went to hello operator, please give me number nine and if you disconnent me i’ll chop off your behind the fridgerator there was a piece off glass miss susie sat upon it and broke her little ask me no more questions tell me no more lies the boys are in the bathroom zipping up the flies are in the meadow the bees are in the hives miss susie and her boyfriend are kissing in the D-A-R-K,D-A-R-K, dark, dark dark! The dark is like the movies, the movies like the show, the show is like the T.V and that is all i know, i know my ma, i know , i know my pa, i know,i know my sister with the 80 acre bra my mother is godzilla, my father is king-kong, my sister is the stupid one who, made up this dumb song!!

Lenny Milhazes, do you remember…

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Lenny Milhazes, do you remember Andy’s candy store that was on Pioneer St. in Red Hook? My brother-in-laws family owned it. They lived in a house on Richard’s St. right next to Visitation Church’s Convent. Do you remember the Public Library that was there before they built the Convent. I lived in the Red Hook Projects on Centre Mall. It was great growing up in Red Hook and I never forgot all the good times I had there.

I’m back again. I can’t…

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I’m back again. I can’t seem to stay away from this site. The one place that comes to mind when I think of the Lower East Side is Mott Street. Little Italy to most of you. We had a large group of kids that hung around together. At most we were around 15 boys and girls who ‘stayed together’. In the summer months we could be found at the corner of Mott and Broome Streets. Just hanging out on the front stoop.That’s what we called it. Just hanging around. We sat around and talked and there was always singing and dancing to someone’s radio. This was way before hand held recorders for tapes. CD’s weren’t even invented yet. (Gee, how old am I?) On Sunday we attended church and then later on took in a movie. Always a group of us went. Maybe a local movie house (Delancy or Canal Theaters) or if there was something good happening uptown – either at Radio City Music Hall or any of the other big theaters. Does anyone remember ‘The Dumps’. Also known as the Universal Theater. It was a little movie house at the corner of the Bowery and Hester Street. In the later years, it always smelled like the inside of a liquor bottle. That’s where the homeless (to be politically correct) hung out and kept warm. But I remember it when we could spend an entire Saturday there for 15 cents. We would get 20 cartoons and two full length features. Plus the Newsreel. My father would drop me off in the morning with a friend or two and then pick us up in the late afternoon. Can you imagine we were entertained for several hours for 15 cents! Try and get this now. Well, I think I’ve rambled on and on for long enough. It would be soo nice to see some replies on my posting. If you remember some of these places, maybe you were one of those kids. Take care…Jeanne from Forsythe Street

Wow! I just tried last…

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Wow! I just tried last night to teach my grandkids the one, two three o’leary game and couldn’t remember it. Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of you who left messages about this game. I played it in the early 50’s and we used either a tennis ball or a rubber ball the size of a tennis ball. I couldn’t remember all of it but some of your messages have brought it all back to me. thanks.

As 58 year old former player…

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As 58 year old former player of Ace-King, I’m wondering if any out there can help jog my memory. There were rules calls at the beginning of every game – “No babying, no stealing, no carrying, etc.” There were also calls made during the game – some obvious, like “do-over” some not, like “fluke, or Hindu.” Anyone remmebr these and their meaning? I know some had to do with whether the ball struck an edge of the brick causing a “funny” bounce. Mike G

Remember the kids who would…

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Remember the kids who would trash a game just because they were losing? Or those who would change the game rules to accommodate their personal needs? Who was the cheater in your crew? Was it a kid in the bunch or a sibling? Bring them out! My brother was the biggest cheat. Teaching me how to play chess, he always cheated in his own favor. Then he’d beat me up when I accused him of being a cheating loser. He’s nicer now, but back then he was the play mate from hell. And don’t forget the kids who would snatch there toys or games back because they were losing.

We usually played this game…

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We usually played this game on a dead end street in the south Bronx. They’d be five or more players who would line up on the sidewalk of one side of the street. The person chosen to be a responder would take position on the opposite sidewalk. In unison the group would call out, What’s in the Icebox” and the responder would say an item, after some drawn out elaboration, that would either be something found in an icebox or not. If the item was something in the icebox like, “A delicious bottle of, Milk!” everyone would run and the first one to tag the responder was the next one to be up. The real catch to this game was if the responder said something like, “A big juicy shoe!” In this case, whoever took a step forward to run would be out and usually more than one person was out.

i kno it differntly…….

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i kno it differntly…. ms mary had a steamboat The steamboat had a bell ms mary went to heaven, The steamboat went to Hello operator Give me number 9 If you disconnect me ill kick you in behind the yellow curtain there was a piece of glass and when ms mary sat upon it drove right up her Ask me no more questions I’ll tell you no more lies the boys are int he bathroom zipping up there flys are in the city the bees are int he park ms mary and boyfriend were kissing in the dark D-A-R-K the dark is in the theatre the theatre is the show and thats all i know i know i know i know i know i know my mother i know i know father i know i know my sister wears a 30m wire lol but i would also really like to know the one wear the girl grows up please email it to me if you get it

i remembered that other…

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i remembered that other one differently. i went downtown to see charlie brown charlie brown gave me a nickle so i bought i thepickle the pickle was so was sour so i bought a flower the flower was dead so this is what i said… sweet sweet baby down by the roller coaster sweet sweet baby never gonna letcha go just because i kissed ya doesnt mean i love ya shimmy shimmy cocoa pop shimmy shimmy bang bang shimmy shimmy cocoa pop i kno karate shimmy shimmy cocoa pop shimmy shimmy bang bang shimmy shimmy cocoa pop come from hawaii shimmy shimmy cocoa pop shimmy shimmy bang bang shimmy shimmy cocoa pop oops im sorry and then you push them im 14 and thats how we did it when i was 11 or so