candy corner. brighton beach 1975. i went to jj reynolds jhs, ps 253 on oceanview ave. graduated from lincoln hs in 1977. those were the days!!!!!! anyone?
Jose Feliciano went to P.S. 40 (Manhattan) same years as me. He of course was in special class for Blind students.
Has anyone ever heard the “choosing” rhyme that goes, “My mother and your mother were hanging out the clothes My mother punched your mother right in the nose. What color blood came out……. (Then you would call out a color) This crazy rhyme popped into my head as I was looking through this website. Just thought I’d make mention of it. Great Website, I’ve passed it on to other “Brooklynites that I grew up with!!
I don’t know what made me remember the game of bottle caps and street chalk boards except the fact that my son bought a six pack of Coke in the collectible bottles which have caps on them. I started talking to him about the game I used to play as a child and “poof” my brain retrieved the name skully. My son,(7y.o.), was intrigued by the explanation and couldn’t wait to get started filling the bottle caps with melted crayons. What memories this brings back to me growing up in Canarsie, (in Brooklyn, N.Y..) I hope I can show my son that he can have as much fun as I did. (I took a shot at looking it up on th e internet and here I am). SKULLY LIVES ON! Steve T.
Hi All, I’m a Queens raised guy who remembers getting tire-treads vulcanized to a pair of Puma sneakers in the late 60’s/early 70’s at a shoe repair shop in the Bronx. Anyone know about this? Thanks, Grape
Spaldings were the ball of choice at McCarren Park in Greenpoint, Bklyn. Some used the Pinkies, but everyone had their blue ball with their initials or tags either written with a magic marker or engraved using either a knife or a small piece of broken glass (which there was a lot of back in the day).
“Kick the can” was also a Bronx game. The kids on my block use to hide our cans so that we wouldn’t have to go scurrying around looking for one the next day; Because the last one to tap their can was it. That was my favorite game, back then. We did all types of cheap tricks, like changing sneakers and hiding inside the garbage can closest to the “can”. And if we didn’t really like the kid that was it. We would run through the backyards and wind up on the other street, leaving the kid all alone for what seemed like hours, trying to find someone. oh, it was the best. I’m glad I not the only one that remembered this game. Thanks for the memories…..Vanessa (32)
My first real job was at the A&P Supermarket on E. 31 street & Lexington. After school (in my senior year) I’d take the 4 train down to Grand Central and the 6 across the platform to 33rd street. It was there I learned about produce, dairy, stocking shelves, packing PAPER bags, working the cash register. I had to give out change and count it back to the customer… no digital display on the register telling me what was owed to the customer. Yeah and I learned how to mop and dry seven aisles of a supermarket. And, oh, I hated truck night. It would arrive around 7:00pm and we’d be done by 10:00pm. I had to take the train back to Bronx on a school night.
I, who has been known to have a memory like an elephant, still do not recall EVER playing sandlot baseball with BOBBY BONILLA in the Bronx. Yet two of my closest friends (Will & Tony)and Tony’s mother insist that I did.
Born & raised in the Bronx and current resident. I was born at St. Francis Hospital on St. Ann’s Avenue. I grew up near Tremont Ave & Southern Blvd area as a child. My teen years were spent on Grand Avenue off Fordham Road. My high school years and current residence is White Plains & E 233rd Street. We played alot of stickball when I grew up on Fordham Road. We’d play in the summer time on the street if we weren’t at a the Stadium sitting in the bleachers. In high school, my love for the game lessened as I found out I could croon a little bit. I met my first (late) wife singing ‘My Girl’ on the first day of school my soph year at Bronx Science (class of ’81). 15 years later after high school I wind up singing with Earl Lewis & The Channels Joe Rivera