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Pensie Pinkey is a woman’s…
I grew up in Crown Heights….
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I grew up in Crown Heights. I’m from a family of 7 children, 5 boys and 2 girls. My brothers would never let me hang out and play stickball, probably because i was really and I could beat them. They wouldn’t let me play – but I played anyway. i plaed hopscotch, stoopball, all those games you have. Some of my best times was doing that. I enjoyed being a Tom boy.
I still have my whole charm…
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I still have my whole charm collection in an old Savarin coffee can. Somehow it managed to survive the years. There are false teeth, hot dogs, tiny decks of cards, and the much sought after gun and holster which actually come apart. At a penny apiece, I must have spent hundreds of dollars, but I treasure them and every once in awhile I go through them and have as much fun now as I did when I was a kid.
Kissies – I haven’t heard…
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Kissies – I haven’t heard that in years. Where was your favorite place to play jacks? Mine was on a painted concrete porch, preferably just swept with a broom. Did you play with ten jacks and pick up the jack while the ball was bouncing? Then, you would transfer the jacks to the other hand and catch the ball with the hand that picked up the jacks (like everything with your right hand)? I’m sure different areas played differently just as we sang different songs to jumprope. I grew up in Baltimore and that’s how we played.
Just think of the condition…
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Just think of the condition we could all be in if we could double-dutch now. I would love to be able to do it again – at the age of 47. Jumping rope is supposed to be great to lower cholesterol. Maybe I’ll go buy a rope. The kids in the city of Baltimore don’t quite do d/d the same as we did as kids. They jump on one foot at a time, alternating feet back and forth. We jumped from side to side, both feet together. For the lady looking for chinese jumprope – I bet if you went to the library you could find some illustrations. Don’t they have everything in the library? Jumprope, hopscotch and jacks were my favorites. Board games came in second. I guess I was a cheap kid.
My memory about kissies…
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My memory about kissies was that you picked up the kissing jacks, held them in the air a little bit above where they had been sitting, and let go and let them drop. Where they then ended up was where you played them. I guess if you ended up w/another pair of kissies you did it again w/them, but I’m not sure about that.
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It was really Old Mr. Johnson,…
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It was really Old Mr. Johnson, who had troubles of his own… He had a yellow cat that wouldn’t leave his home He tried and he tried to give the cat away He gave it to a man going far, far away, BUT The cat came back the very next day, Oh the cat came back; they thought he was a goner But the cat came back; he just couldn’t stay away. Loved that song. Does anyone remember the song about the guy named Charlie who got lost on the Boston subways (MTA) – “He never returned, no he never returned, and his fate is still unlearned, he will ride forever ‘neath the streets of Boston, he’s the man who never returned…” That’s all I remember.