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Play Marbles is a really…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on November 22, 2009 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 22, 2009

Play Marbles is a really fantastic game. My company, Welcome Friend Productions has also released a marbles game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It is called iKeepsies – the Classic Marbles game. You can learn all about it here at www.imarbles.com/ikeepsies. iKeepsies has all of the best things about marbles games, such as winning, losing, trading and collecting marbles. Only these marbles are graphic designs, animations, and 3D models. Marbles are “dropped” in dropsies, and flicked in Ringer and Ring Taw. The game graphics are old-time cartoons that leave room for one to imagine traveling around a childhood neighborhood and playing marbles at grandma’s house, the park, and the toy store. There are fifteen different imaginary places to play marbles in iKeepsies. We encourage our players to design their own marbles, and they are released in marble sets that can be downloaded into the game. iKeepsies is published by Welcome Friend Productions, a family run business that designed and produced the game throughout 2009.

Posted in Marbles, Other Games

BUY a skelly board!!?? …

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on November 6, 2009 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 18, 2014

BUY a skelly board!!?? BUY!!!??? OMG you MAKE a skelly board!! is that jazzy person a communist or something? (i’m just kidding, well about the communist part anyway…)

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During the thirties we bought…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on November 6, 2009 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014

During the thirties we bought our candy in Jakies on Brooklyn Avenue between Herkimer Street and Atlantic Avenue. In the evening our Fathers used to hang out in front waiting for the bulldog editions of the newspapers to be delivered so they could check on the race track results. In those days a store like Jakies carried many newspapers and the Daily Mirror and the Daily News were the ones with the most complete horse racing results. If a kid managed to come up with a penny, he or she had a great many choices to make in front of Jakes candy case. . . a Hootens bar, jaw breakers, sugar dots on a strip of paper, Mary Janes, Fleers bubble gum, etc. If you took too long to make a choice Jake would say, “Come on kid, I ain’t got all day.” You tried to choose a piece of candy which would last a long time. Those were the days!

Posted in Brooklyn, Food & Drink, Locales | Tagged candy store

We used to play Off the Wall,…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on November 3, 2009 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 18, 2014

We used to play Off the Wall, which we called Flies Up, in East New York, Brooklyn in the ’80s. We also had a very mean version called suicide. In this version, if you touched the ball but didn’t catch it you had to run to the wall and yell “SUICIDE” before someone picked up the ball and threw it at you. If you got hit by the ball before you touched the wall, you had to take your lumps. You had to stand nose to the wall while each player took turns throwing the ball at you. The meaner kids would take a running start and throw the ball as hard as they could either at the small of your back or your butt. Once each player got a chance, play resumed with with you being the new “it” and throwing the ball.

Posted in Brooklyn, Other Spaldeen games, Wallball / Off the Wall/Point | Tagged Off the Wall

I grew up in East New York,…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on November 3, 2009 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014

I grew up in East New York, Brooklyn in the ’80s. We had the game spot near the end of our block. The garage, or the factory across the street from it, was the backstop for baseball. Flies up was played on the garage, and in the street was the skelly board. We used to use the plastic caps fro $.25 juices. We’d fill the top with wax from a 7 day candle and coat the bottom with wax to get the glide. I haven’t seen anyone play skelly in age. Kids don’t play outside anymore.

Posted in Brooklyn, Skully | Tagged I grew up...

We played on 108th Street…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on September 24, 2009 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 14, 2014

We played on 108th Street facing Central Park back in the 1940’s . Naturally a home run had to go over the park wall. This presented a special challenge to the outfielder who had to stand on the white line on Eigth Avenue and dodge the traffic which was two ways back in those days.

Posted in Stickball, Stickball rules

Then there was Didee Doll,…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on August 26, 2009 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014

Then there was Didee Doll, an early wetter.

Posted in Girl games, Toys | Tagged dolls & cutouts

I grew up in Canarsie and…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on August 21, 2009 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014

I grew up in Canarsie and played this game in the playground for years. My brothers and I would melt the crayons for the caps in my easy bake oven. I was telling my husband about this (only married over a year and an old friend of my brothers) and he had heard the stories from my brothers. We live in Maine and are going to get some chalk and play on our driveway. What a great memory!!!!

Posted in Brooklyn, Locales, Skully | Tagged Canarsie, crayons, I grew up...

Does anyone know where I…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on August 15, 2009 by Streetplay DiscussionsAugust 15, 2009

Does anyone know where I can buy a skully board for home use? Thanks!

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Just wondered if anyone out…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on August 5, 2009 by Streetplay DiscussionsAugust 5, 2009

Just wondered if anyone out there was from the Flushing area 156 street 43 ave… (P.S. 22).. late 40’s and 50’s If so drop me a line maybe we could share some stories and friends. at bearsy24 [at] yahoo [dot] com (include the word Flushing in the subject) Stay Safe, Semper Fi

Posted in Reader Stories

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