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What’s in the ice box today!…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 5, 2001 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014

What’s in the ice box today! Anyone remember that one?

Posted in Other Games | Tagged "Red Light Green Light"

We lived in an apt in Astoria,…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 5, 2001 by Streetplay DiscussionsMay 9, 2019

We lived in an apt in Astoria, Queens and as a little girl I use to prop upa blanket like a tent. Me and my siblings would hang out especially on hot summer nights. We had to be in at 8:00 and everyone was still out. So being on the fire escape made us feel we were not missing anything. Also there would be a group of boys from a gang called the Barons and they would harmonize to the tune of Duke of Earl. Oh the days of little wants.

Posted in Locales, Queens, Reader Stories, Street Lifestyle | Tagged Astoria, fire escapes, gangs, Summer

I lived on Steinway St in…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 5, 2001 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014

I lived on Steinway St in Astoria and we went fishing too. Since it was a busy street we had meters and boy that was good for fishing. People were constantly dropping coins down the gratings. It was like hitting lotto when you got 25 cents. After all look what it could buy.

Posted in Locales, Queens, Reader Stories, Street Lifestyle | Tagged Astoria, sewer fishing

Whenever my family pissed…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 5, 2001 by Streetplay DiscussionsJune 5, 2001

Whenever my family pissed me off I would buy a $15.00 round trip bus ticket to Atlantic City. The bus drivers knew me well. I was way too young to drink or gamble, so when the usual preachy speeches they gave were over they’d let me follow them around and eat at the buffet tables until it was time to return. To this day my folks can’t figure out where I went.

Posted in Reader Stories

My first summer job on the…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 5, 2001 by Streetplay DiscussionsMay 9, 2019

My first summer job on the books was at Mickey D’s by Prospect Park. I was 15 and so happy to get my little work permit, until I got hit with a little thing called taxes. The money I brought home was a joke compared to the “free” money I earned doing hair, or baby sitting. I was beginning to cultivate a bad attitude about working on the books until I got a new cute young manager. Gave me something to look forward to. My check sure wasn’t much to look at.

Posted in Reader Stories | Tagged first jobs, Summer

I have been reading with…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 4, 2001 by Streetplay DiscussionsJune 4, 2001

I have been reading with great interest the discussion of “jacks.” We flipped to see who was first; if you could flip all of the jacks from one side of your hand to the other, you could claim, “one game.” Otherwise, we went from onezies to tens, in order. If you missed, you were out and the next girl took her turn. We called a stacked jack “double jack,” and if anyone yelled “double jack” first, she got to smash it apart. Of course, if it were your turn you wanted to be the one to yell and break it apart gently, so that your jacks wouldn’t scatter. I had never heard the term “fancies” but evidently we called the same thing “coggzies.” You had to get through a hard coggs or easy coggs (your call) before you could claim the game. We played multiple games, reciting “one game, two games, etc. as we finished.

Posted in Girl games, Jacks

Did anyone play with two…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 3, 2001 by Streetplay DiscussionsJune 3, 2001

Did anyone play with two pink balls bouncing them against a wall? We used to do one, two three alera, four five six alera, etc. and at alera you had to bounce it under your leg or clap or turn around. We also used to do Mathew, Mark, Luke and John, you’re the next so carry on…. and you would pass the balls to the next one. Does this ring any bells with anyone?

Posted in Clap and Rhyme, Girl games

I lived in East New York…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 3, 2001 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 14, 2014

I lived in East New York (Buschwick-Arlington) from the time I was born in 65 until 77. I can relate to many of the stories posted. One that sticks with me was how we would sit around with the “older boys” and plan how we were going to catch “The Son of Sam!”

Posted in Brooklyn, Locales | Tagged Son of Sam

roller hockey with the freeze…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 3, 2001 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 14, 2014

roller hockey with the freeze rule

Posted in Locales, Queens | Tagged Avenue J

Does anybody remember that…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 2, 2001 by Streetplay DiscussionsJune 2, 2001

Does anybody remember that song (sung to one of the army marching tunes I think) “Found a peanut, found a peanut, found a peanut just now, just now I found a peanut, found a peanut just now. It was rotten it was rotten it was rotten just now… Ate it anyway…etc. Does anybody know where this goes? I seem to remember it being quite long.

Posted in Girl games | Tagged songs

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