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OH, SKULLY.brings back such…
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OH, SKULLY.brings back such fond memmories of my childhood playing in the street in N.Y.C ,in the 74-78 era my name is henry from 96st west side of manhattan,i play’d SKULLY with the boys on my block and kid’s i went to school with,Back in the days when there was no cell phone ,Pc’s laptops and video games only attari pong ,and if you did have it you were one prrrichivilleged Kid!anyways gonna try to bring this skully game back for all to enjoy!If you lived in this area at that time,send me an E -mail like to here from you [dot] henryfleitas [at] yahoo [dot] com
Sandra from 1068 Gerard Ave….
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Sandra from 1068 Gerard Ave. (165th) (1973-1978) Building is gone now, but not the memories. Hanging out at Mullaly Park. Playing on the swings, handball. The bodega on the corner. Had my first crush there. Dr. Chan was my pediatrician. Playing in the alleys. Chelo, my best friend, the super’s daughter. Hanging out with Junie and Nancy on 166th. Had my first kiss with Francisco on the roof of the building on the corner of 166th and Gerard. Shopping on 167th. Went to school at PS 114 til 4th grade. Used to get a pizza, grape soda and a Snickers for $1.00. Then went to Christ the King on Marcy Place; Father Laracy, Father Rodrigo, Father O’Keefe, Sister Consilio. Going to the Kent Movie Theatre to watch Bruce Lee Movies. Later going to the RKO and Loews Paradise. Block parties! Those were the days…
I grew up in the Pomonok…
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I grew up in the Pomonok project across from Queens College in the ’50’s and early ’60’s. Where we were Pensies were rarely available, though known of. Any of you remember that spaldeens varied somewhat in pressure. I’d go through the box and find the hardest ones I could. They could be punched further, hit further, but their principle advantage was in handball, if you were over six feet. It was an equalizer when playing with a short guy with better skills. In close play, a low hit would send it caroming over his reach. By the way Geoff, you sure could split a spaldeen with a broom stick or those slightly larger stickball bats that were sold in some places. A baseball bat compresses the ball too much and creates a greater area of contact making a split less likely. We used to turn the splits inside out and throw them. they moved like maniacal frisbees and were almost impossible to catch. Any of you remember three box baseball, a pavement game we played when it was just too hot and humid to play anything else?
Wow! Thanks for the memories.If…
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Wow! Thanks for the memories.If you came to the block with a bottle cap we would probably under estimate you because that was like a beginners style.I wonder if school chair caps was a Bronx thing ’cause they are the only ones i saw posting it. I used to play on Marion ave. and also Decatur ave in The Bronx during the seventies.We took our mothers can openers to school and took the caps off of the chairs to get a professional’s cap. Small caps were called beenies and large were bullies. Sometimes we used clay instead of wax.If your cap began to roll you’d better yell “no kicksies” or we’d kick it like a soccer ball and more than likely you were guaranteed to lose.I think the drug infested eighties destroyed these games like ringoleavio,slugs,of the curb,stick ball,off the wall,kick the can,…………….you get the idea.
I grew up in Laurelton, L.I,…
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I grew up in Laurelton, L.I, N.Y. in the 50’s and 60’s. I used to get the ‘Pinkys’ for 5 cents and the Spauldeens for 10 cents. The Pinkys were softer, smoother and had that great new rubber smell. They would hand bounce better than the Spauldeen. The words and logo on the Pinky was in dark blue. I guess to keep them newer longer, I used to fill in the words/logo as they wore off with a blue BIC. The Pinky had a thin black seam and that was it’s weakness. Many times a solid hit with a wood bat would split the Pinky right on that seam. The Spauldeens were rough texture, ‘chalky’ bounced less but ‘never broke’. In all fairness, we kids never used stickball bats, but used heavy wood Baseball bats. Thank You.
National Children’s Folksong…
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National Children’s Folksong Repository The Historic Electronic Online Archive of Children’s Folksongs, and indigenous playground poetry. A Public Folklore Project built by the children of the United States. Integrate Literacy, Music, and Technology into the classroom. If you have a little time and the phone you can call toll free 1-877-220-0262 between 10 am – 6 pm eastern time and sing or chant the folksong, playground chant, song, circle game, game shout you remember and we will add it into the archive. Remember to tell us the name of it where you learned it: ex: philly, pa and when you learned it 1950 or perhaps 1970 or 1990 or yesterday 🙂 http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/NCFRD/ thanks!
I grew up in the bronx 60’s…
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I grew up in the bronx 60’s and 70’s…158th st between 3rd ave and elton. ave and skelsies was a game we would play all day. We used to take the bottom off of chairs in school and used crayon wax to fill our tops….we would have differend sizes and all would be filled with your special color…Its funny im 48 and remember filling mine with yellow…… remember: hit a killa be a killa….
I grew up playing skelsies…
I can’t believe I didn’t…
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I can’t believe I didn’t see anyone here from Queensbridge projects! The neighborhood next to the 3 smoke stacks of Con-Edison in Queens. We had 6 parks right in our neighborhood. We moved to RI in 1973 (I was 12) and they never heard of Spaldeens, never played double-dutch, never saw a stickball bat and had never eaten a knish! I went to this website because I’m going to teach my 10 year old daughter’s girl scout group here in California how to play all the games I knew, thanks for all the help in remembering, especially SPUD, I forgot that one!