Sure, we had pedal pushers (I think having to do with pushing bicycle pedals?) and sun suits!!! (What we really wanted, but never got, was go-go boots!!) And my mom always bought my sister and me (3 years apart) matching clothes, but in different colors. Just imagine trying to do that to your kids now!
We threw anything we could get our hands on. I loved this game growing up on the Lower East Side because you didn’t need to find a playground that already had a hopscotch “board”. Anyone who wanted to play would just go to the store and get a piece of chalk and draw right on the ground. We used bottle caps (when we weren’t playing skully with them), rocks, even pieces of glass in a pinch. – webdiva
Does anyone remember this one? Have you ever, ever, ever in your long legged life Seen a long legged sailor with a long legged wife? No, I never, never, never in my long legged life Saw a long legged sailor with a long legged wife. The second verse began with: Have you ever, ever, ever in your short-legged life seen a short legged sailor with a long legged wife…and so on… The third verse: Have you ever, ever, ever in your bow-legged life seen a bow-legged sailor with a bow-legged wife… The last verse: Have you ever, ever, ever in your long-legged, short-legged, bow-legged life seen a long-legged, short-legged, bow-legged sailor with…well, you get the idea. With each verse in the clapping game, you had to move your hands in a certain way that corresponded with the “long-legged”, “short-legged” “bow-legged” parts of the rhyme… and there’s no way I could possibly describe it here! 🙂 – webdiva
Anybody remember Seven-Up? We played it (upstate New York in the 60’s) with a ball (probably similar to the pink Spaulding ball) against a wall. This is what I remember: It started off easy. You threw the ball against a wall 7 times, and caught it each time before it hit the ground, and called out 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 up! Then you threw it against the wall 6 times, and caught it after it bounced 1,2,3,4,5,6 up! Then you just bounced it on the ground 5 times 1,2,3,4,5 up! Then it gets a little fuzzy in my memory. Bounced it 4 times on the ground and under your leg??? Some variation all the way down to 1 up. If you could get through that entire set without messing up, you started all over again, each time making it slightly harder by adding a variation (like clapping once each time you threw the ball). Can’t remember all the variations. This was one of our favorite “girl games”, along with Red Light, Green Light, Mother May I, Freeze Tag, and Red Rover. But the best game to get boys and girls of all ages together in our neighborhood was kickball.
LULU HAD A BOYFRIEND, HIS NAME WAS TINY TIM , SHE PUT HIM IN THE CESSPOOL TO SEE IF HE COULD SWIM. HE FLOATED TO THE BOTTOM AND FLOATED TO THE TOP LULU GOT EXCITED AND PULLED HIM BY HIS……COCKTAIL ,GINGERALE , FIVE CENTS A GLASS IF YOU DO NOT LIKE IT I’LL SHOVE IT UP YOUR…..ASK ME NO MORE QUESTIONS,TELL ME NO MORE LIES..WHOS GONNA MARRY LULU THE NITE BEFORE SHE DIES! …FLATLANDS PARK ,BROOKLYN CIRCA 1970. GUYS I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO GET IN TOUCH W/YOU FOR OVER 3 WEEKS….YOUR SERVER IS DOWN,OR THATS WHAT THEY TELL ME….I HAVE MANY PHOTOS AND 8MM CONVERSIONS YOU MIGHT LIKE TO SEE…DROP ME A LINE THANK YOU JOE KELLY