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Does anyone remember how…
We made our skully caps…
We made our skully caps in the early 60s in Flatbush both from crayon wax and the actual corks that were inside certain soda bottles. We would carefully pry out the cork lining (sometimes topped with silver foil – a treat!) and add it to another bottle cap, creating the “double corker.” A wax-filled cap was illogically (or not if you are 12) called a “wax corker.” We even occasionally made a “lead corker,” as described by a previous discussant. Our skully board was nine boxes (9 in the middle, surrounded by the trapezoids which were numbered 1-4).
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Does anyone remember angel…
A basket of biscuits A…
I remember going to slumber…
I remember going to slumber parties and doing the water thing but also doing all the eating of junk food that you didn’t get to do at home. They were some of the best times. I also had one friend who had the best parties and her bedroom was the whole upstairs of her house. It was a great time and we never got bothered by her mom as long as we were quiet. Those were great times but it was sad to hear a couple of Christmas’ ago she was in a terrible accident with her grandma and was killed. I have fond momories of her. Slumber parties are something that you should make sure your daughter have! Thanks for the site and making me remember.
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I think that Fred (Wednesday,…
I think that Fred (Wednesday, December 22, 1999) is right. I grew up in Brooklyn and we always called it a “sliding pon”. I think that what’s happened is that when some of us reached adulthood and tried to make some sense of this phrase to non New Yorkers we assumed that it must have really been a “sliding pond” and that we were just mis-remembering. In fact, I’m convinced that it was “sliding pon” which is a corruption of another term for that piece of playground apparatus. Maybe some posters will suggest what that term might be.
This sounds impossibly difficult….
This sounds impossibly difficult. I am sure I would be tied up in knots. I love hearing all the talk about chinese jump rope, always hoping I will hear the description of the game we played as children called chinese jump rope. I have come to the conclusion that anything exotic was called chinese. I went to school in China Town New York City and never played any exotic elastic chinese jump rope. We did play a game called chinese jump rope. It was a single rope and we jumped over it while turning around all the way up to head height. There was a game with a double rope and I cannot recall it at all. I am pretty sure I posted a similar posting to this much earlier on. Also a posting about chinese jacks.