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I remember playing hopscotch…
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I remember playing hopscotch with 8 boxes (no rounded top.) We used key chains to throw into each box but not to touch any of the lines or your turn is over. After you successfully hop thru all 8 boxes you continued back to the 1st box.Once that is completed we now played the 2nd half of the game called “potsy” which entailed hopping on 1 foot only! Also with the same rules of not steping on the lines. That’s how we played hopscotch in Bay Ridge Brooklyn in the 60’s.
We played jacks at the edge…
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We played jacks at the edge of the ballfield in the playground at the corner of W.115th Street and Belmont. As I rember it, we only played jacks after we had a vigorous workout on the handlebars, the swings and teeter totters and while we were having a carton of cold chocolate milk which was deliverd to the playground every day in the summer. This may have been just after WWII. I was never really very good at jacks, but my Sister Nancy was the expert. Recognizing her superiority, I usually gave up before the game was even over….
Babs – Yep, definitely…
There was a farmer had a…
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There was a farmer had a dog and Bingo was his name, oh! B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O and Bingo was his name, oh. There were six in the bed, and the little one said, “Roll over! Roll over!” So they all rolled over and one fell out, there were five in the bed, and the little one said, “Roll over! Roll over!” So they all rolled over and one fell out…” and so on
Does anyone remember the…
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Does anyone remember the subsequent verses to a sailor went to sea sea sea? Next there was chop, then there was knee, then there was toe. At the end you were saluting, making a chopping motion in the bend of your elbow, touching both your knees and touching both your toes all in sequence while saying [a sailor went to] sea-chop-knee-toe and then coming back up in time to continue clapping and singing. What a workout. Always wound up giggling.
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Where I grew Hopscotch was…
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Where I grew Hopscotch was not only for girls, boys played too. The summer playgrounds had a tournment at the end of the summer. The boys that won ended up being the stars on the high school sports teams. Hopscotch was serious business for the boys. And by the way the boys almost always beat the girls.