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damn dem days were the best,…

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Original author: angelica [e-mail]
 

damn dem days were the best, 177st and morris.right acros the street from joseph h wade jhs117 mr.gilman mr.wasselman mr.downey did any body try to teach their kids how to play any of our old school games. i now live sd california the rapper big punisher is my cousin at time he was a baby.now in san diego are two differant friends from my block. this guy we called cookie aka james and his family now james is a sd policeman his brothers are darryl and boo-boo little sister aka yugi is rhonda.i lost touch with some others i ran into like lil lucy dejesus who is a liutetant in the army .lost touch with virginia delos santos and i want to find SELINA WHITE OR WHITEHEAD AKA *SUTTIE* SHE IS AFRO AMER. WITH LONG PRETTY HAIR NO ONE WOULD BELIEVE IT WAS HER OWN. SHE AND I WOULD GO TAGGING OUR NAMES EVERY WHERE>SUTTIE AND ANGIE DO OR DIE SUICIDE .LOL WISH TO SEE HER AGAIN.THEN THERE WAS ALFREDO CRESPO I JUST KNEW HE WAS GOING TO BE MY HUSBAND NOT! HIS BROTHERS JOSE AND MARCELINO.AND IN APT 4F ERROL AND HIS MOTHER CARMEN SHE IS THE REASON I NAMED MY LITTLE BROTHER BOOBIE BECAUSE THAT WAS HER CAT’S NAME AND I LIKED IT . BOOBIE IS NOW THE BOXER YES 7 FIGHTS 5 BY KNOCKOUT REAL NAME ALLEN CONYERS I LIKE THEM TO SEE HIM. HE WAS A BABY BACK THEN,SEE HIM AT FIGHTNEWS.COM UNDER ALAN CONYERS/YOUNG FIGHT.HE STILL LIVES IN THE BRONX AND TRAINS ALL OVER THE WORLD HIS BUDDY MCGIRT. HOPE SOMEONE COULD FIND OR MAYBE KNOWS SOMEONE THAT I DO COULD CONTACT ME. please thanks lots adios.

read allan laxton message,…

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Original author: john gordon [e-mail]
 

read allan laxton message, i grew up at lawrence and bristol,in philly and played all those street games especially,stick ball and chink, and all we needed was the pimple ball and of course someones broom handle for the bat, actually i just purchased a stick ball and two pink balls thru a cataloge, good memories!!!!!!!

Trying to find more about…

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Original author: airpinto [e-mail]
 

Trying to find more about Kick the Can. I remember two versions. One a hide and seek type game and the other was called kicked the can running bases in my neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY. It basically was a baseball (or stickball) type game that began when the kicker (the batter) kicked the can and began running towards first. Don’t remember much after that, like how one was tagged out, etc.

Dave B from Sothwest Philly.We…

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Original author: Dave Baker [e-mail]
 

Dave B from Sothwest Philly.We played all of those games and it was great.All you needed was a pimple ball and one other guy and you could play games for hours.How many times did we dive in front of the sewer intake to keep the ball from going down the hole.If it made it down the hole the smallest guy got dangled by his feet down the sewer hole.Man did it stink.Does anyone remember “chipsies”?Whoever touched the ball last before it got lost was responsible for buying a new ball and turning it over to the previous owner.

First stopped by this site…

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Original author: TB [e-mail]
 

First stopped by this site some three years ago. (Check out the jpeg link in the archives section of the old board we played on in the Bronx). Nice to catch up on all the new messages, seeing people from all parts posting about the game and how they share the message of skully with the next generation. Especially enjoyed the posts by Mark D. who’s incorporating the game into a discussion on science and John W.’s last paragraph perfectly sums it up of days-gone-by. Oh, and thanks Hugh for the rule sheet!

Back in the mid 60’s I started…

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Original author: Gerard Gallagher (gerard) [e-mail]
 

Back in the mid 60’s I started high school. I went to a certain prep school for about the first half of the 9th grade,being a tad rebelous I wasn’t making the kind of grades the adults thought I should. I was taken out of private school and sent to Englewood to live with relatives and attend the local high school (Dwight Morrow H.S.). There I stayed until 11th grade.In my class was one Joey Travolta, his brother John was one grade behind. It doesn’t end there, I went back to Brooklyn to finish the 11th and 12th grades. The school I attended was Sheepshead Bay H.S., two or three grades behind me was a girl named Donna Pescow. For those of you too young to remember a movie called “SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER”, they were the two stars of the movie.