Streetplay Discussions
Skelsies. Man that was…
Skelsies. Man that was fun. Growing up on 53rd Street in Bayridge, we played all the time. We would melt crayon in the caps for design and power. Also, we would take a coke bottle and if you ran the top along a manhole cover, just hard enough, the ring ould pop off, you would then rub the cut side down, and voila, it would glide forever. Unfortunately loaded caps could literally smash you. I live in Charlotte, NC now and was amazed to pass a skelsies board in the street recently, I never found out where it came from.
Slight local variation on…
Slight local variation on “Suicide” in my area (Malden, MA, near Boston, at Forestdale Elementary): No one was ever out of the game for good–it went on until recess was over or everyone was bored. People just sort of came and went. You throw the ball against the wall. If someone catches the fly that person becomes the thrower. Otherwise you keep throwing. If someone touches it on the fly without catching it, (s)he runs for the wall while whoever happens to pick up the ball tries to peg him/her before (s)he reaches it. If the runner gets pegged, (s)he has to sit out until someone else gets pegged. This was not too long ago (1994, 1995). I just saw it as a more complex Off the Wall (also a great game).
A few of us here are fanatical…
A few of us here are fanatical about street cricket. We have a couple of Grounds..MCG and currently Sabina Park which is actually the local primary school playground. We have our own web site under construction nd will be filming some action soon. Can anyone tell me about the swingking (or a similar product). Apparantly it immitates a tape-ball. We cant use tape-ball since the concrete rips it off after 5 overs!
I’m not sure of the proper…
I’m not sure of the proper spelling, but the part I remember goes like this: Two people stand facing each other, holding hands (one person has arms crossed so that an “X” is formed) and the song begins ( you also pull left, right, etc making a crisscrossing motion with joined hands): Here we go zoolio, zoolio, zoolio Here we go zoolio all night long. (release hands and start going backwards) Take a step back Sally, Sally, Sally Walk into the alley, alley, alley. I went to the country, and what’d I see? I saw a great big man tryin’ to “hypotize” me. I go way back (put hands on waist & lean back) Got a hump in my back (lean forward w/hands in small of back) Do the crab walk, do the crab walk (players “strut” towards each other, still in humped position, and trade places) The last part is what has me stumped…does anybody remember this at all? I grew up in South Jersey, if that’s any help. Please respond here or email me at:
Here’s more rhyme to tune…
Here’s more rhyme to tune of ‘Miss Suzy’ verses. I don’t remember singing this particular one, but I know a girl who is singing it today – My mom gave me a nickel my dad gave me a dime my sister gave me a boyfriend who kissed me all the time my Mom took back the nickel my dad took back the dime my sister took back her boyfriend and gave me Frankenstien he made me wash the dishes he made me scrub the floor he made me wash his underwear so I kicked him out the door he flew all over Londan he flew all over France he landed in North America where the naked ladies dance HULA HULA
Many things come to mind…
Many things come to mind when I think of skelly. Here are a few: 1)New Jersey, 1964. We stopped at Tony’s Hot Dogs near lake Hopatcong on a Sunday as I recall. I asked the man behind the counter, actually my dad asked the man, if we could have some bottlecaps. I guess some meant all because he filled up a couple of paper bags full. It was a great ride home as a 7 year old digging out all of the cork and couldn’t wait to show my friends my motherlode of caps. 2)I can still remember the smell of melted crayons in my friend’s garage as we readied our bottlecaps for action. We lived in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn and if it wasn’t stickball or Spud it was all day skelly marathons. 3)About 1970 or thereabouts during my last glory days as a pre-teen and the end of skelly as a pasttime, I pulled one of the biggest miscues of my life, to that point. My dad had just bought me a new pair of Pro Keds and I proceeded to wear out the sides in a matter of days due to several skellythons. Needless to say, it was back to discount sneakers for me. I wish this generation could experience all of the great street games that I grew up with in Brooklyn and Queens.
Grew up in Da Bronx. Went…
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I remember playing skelly…
I remember playing skelly with my friends in the Linden houses in ENY Brooklyn. There was a coke-a-cola bottling plant on Linden Blvd, my best friend and I road our bikes there and asked one of the workers for some bottle caps to play skelly. He gave us a whole bag full of new caps, back then it seemed like a bag of gold. We melted lead fishing weights, crayons and anything else that would melt to fill the caps. Skelly was the best game. Kids on Long Island NY are missing out on a great game…. Thanks for the memories…. Rich