Streetplay Discussions
I played box baseball in…
I played box baseball in the Linden Projects (East New York, Brooklyn). We also played boxball. For boxball we used four boxes (2×2) and each player got a box. Then we would tap the ball back and forth between the players until someone couldn’t return the ball into one of the other boxes or couldn’t hit it before it hit the floor twice. There was also another game which used 5 boxes (in a straight row). First you have to make the ball bounce once in the #1 box. Then once in the #1 box and once in the #2 box & so on until you did all 5 boxes.
I once had the brillant…
does anyone remember a jingle-can’t…
I hear you blood! I don’t…
I used to play skully in…
I used to play skully in Staten Island during the 70s. It was the perfect game to play on a hot summer’s day. Every neighborhood had it’s own skully board either chalked or painted on the street. I can still hear someone yelling, “Car!” That would make us grab our skully caps and run to the sidewalk for safety. We made our skully caps by melting Crayola crayons with matches…
I am 31 and my family (parents…
When I was a kid in France…
When I was a kid in France we used to play “elastique” which is the same as Chinese Jump Rope, but there weren’t any set patterns to jump. Part of the game was that you made up your own pattern, after agreeing on a certain level of difficulty, like there had to be some point in it where you jumped on the line. So you couldn’t really get out on ankles, but then you had to repeat the pattern at knees etc. If you changed anything, you lost your turn. So it was partly a memory thing.
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I have totally different…
I have totally different versions of two rhymes that my daughter has come home singing and they sound like they are either racial or from slave days. Has anyone heard these versions (she goes to an almost all black school so that could be the reason): Ottamacachina nigawacha, nigawacha. Saw my boyfriend last night, how do ya know, how do ya know. Looked out the pea hole, crazy. Washed the dishes, lazy. Jumped out the window, crazy, nigawacha, nigawacha. Down down baby, down down the rollercoaster. Sweet sweet baby, I’ll never let you go. Shimmy shimmy coco pop, shimmy shimmy eye. Shimmy shimmy coco pop, shimmy shimmy eye. I like coffee, I like tea, I like the colored boy and he likes me so step back white boy you don’t shine. I like the colored boy and he’s all mine. Where is she getting these versions from?? Does anyone know of a way to look up where the different versions derive from? It’s fine with me if it’s because it’s been past down but if some child made it up I would rather she didn’t say it like that!! Thanks, KimH