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Good Ole New York. Had…

Posted on April 13, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsMay 9, 2019

Good Ole New York. Had the privilege of returning to NY last month and all these memories came back. I even ate a Charlotte Russe. Yummy! But it had a little bit of cake at the bottom. Not as much as I remember it had years ago. I never did get a chance to eat a knish…they don’t have such an animal in this part of the USA…most people here don’t even know what a knish is. I remember that The Enterman Bakery Truck used to come around selling those cupcakes that were listed above. Who remembers the penny pickles on the lower east side…and the lemonade man that came around each summer? You could get a Italian Lemon Ice for 5 cents. Gee, I’m dating myself.

Yeah … I know it sounds…

Posted on April 12, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014

Yeah … I know it sounds deranged, but this is actually a pastime we spent numerous hours playing in the fall. Two player game.Possibly a local thing in East Flatbush in Bklyn. We had a nearby cemetery (Holy Cross) where Chestnuts were plentiful …. Basically you’d string Chestnuts on a lace from your pair of Chuck Connors Allstars (a.k.a. Converse)You’d then take turns whacking the other person’s Chestnut with yours & vice versa until one player’s Chestnut cracked and came off the shoelace. The surviving Chestnut was thereby a “1 Killer”. Each subsequent battle that you won with that Chestnut added a Kill to it’s lore. Nail polish was ferquently applied to the Chestnuts to toughen the outer shell. Sheesh. maybe the kids are right and we were deranged !

There is still a stickball…

Posted on April 12, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 18, 2014

There is still a stickball league in the Bronx, New York. I have been playing in the New York Emperors Stickball League for 7 years straight. We play stickball in the Bronx at Stickball Blvd. right behind Stevenson High School Track. The games run from April to September on sundays at 10:00am to 12:30pm. I have started a website to promote the league it will be completed by May 1999. The address is www.bronxpages.com/stickball New Teams are Welcome! Stickball Rules!

One I remember is: Tulips…

Posted on April 12, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 18, 2014

One I remember is: Tulips together twilight in heaven bring back my love to me. It was probably 2 lips – but I was an innocent kid back then.

Does anyone remember the…

Posted on April 12, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014

Does anyone remember the “Patty Cake type” of hand games us girls used to play? I don’t remember their names, and can only remember snippets of some… “Miss Lucy had a baby She named him Tiny Tim she put him in the bathtub to see if he could swim” …. Can anyone complete the rest of the verses? Anyone remember some others? help! 🙂

Sunday’s in Coney Island…

Posted on April 12, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 13, 2014

Sunday’s in Coney Island Coney Island … the land of the Jewish Accents. My Grandfather lived in Coney Island, and every Sunday, my cousins and I would visit him. He would walk us along the boardwalk, (while our parents lounged on the beach) and introduce us to his friends sitting on the benches. Since everyone of my grandfather’s friends had a Jewish accent, I always thought that I too, would acquire one as I grew older. (So far, I haven’t!) Amidst the smell of sea air and the happy noises of people walking, talking, and realaxing on a Sunday afternoon, my grandfather took us into the open storefronts along the boardwalk, and bought us Potato knishes. After, he’d take us into the arcade, where we played games, collected tickets for points, and excitedly turned them in for a chosen toy or two …

We spent every summer evening…

Posted on April 12, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsMay 9, 2019

We spent every summer evening when I was in elementary school playing kick the can. Best places to hide were in the basement window wells and as high as we could climb in the apple tree. We also had a babysitter named Shirley Gamble and when she came to sit we played the “Shirley Gamble Game”, where she would hide everyone but the person who was It. My parents never learned that she once had my little brother (age 4) hang by his fingertips from inside the laundry shoot in the upstairs bathroom (the shoot ended in the basement!). How did we ever survive childhood?

we had a similar gun in…

Posted on April 12, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsMay 9, 2019

we had a similar gun in the 70’s in northern nj but we used many rubberbands(the more the deadlier the sting) and we nailed a spring clothing pin to hold the rubberbands and projectile. we even fashioned them to look like machineguns. at times we even had double barrel guns by using two or even 3 pins. after a few years of this during the summer, the weapons were becoming to powerful and the projectile of choice became the round part that soda and beer cans had when you open them. they would be all over the ground in those days since they detached when a can was opened. soon after our parents banned our weapons. we destroyed most and hid some–never to be used again.

i too remember going to…

Posted on April 12, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsApril 12, 1999

i too remember going to a double feature on sunday’s after church with my friends in the mid 70’s. we used to sneak up to the balcony, since it was closed, and watch the movie from there. then we would throw candy at people below, usually the small round red ones(can’t remember what they were called). Soon after, we would see people yelling and/or fist fighting because they would blame someone else. we had a ball. ps we were only about 10 or 11 when we used to do this..

OK I’m Jewish and grew up…