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Well I would be considered…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on December 7, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsMarch 23, 2019
Original author: DawnBXpayer
 

Well I would be considered a baby to most of you. I’m 21. I lived at 2055 Cruger Ave, Pelham Parkway/Bronx Park East area, across from PS 105. Went to that school, until 6th grade, JHS 127 in Castle Hill, and Dodge VHS in Fordham. I lived on Cruger untill I was 20 years old and and now I live on 184th st and Park Ave. I remember playing off the stoop, skelly, asses up, brake the chain, steal the bacon, stickball, punchball, jumping rooftops, hiding in Parkchester projects, ect.. Now I travel all over the Bronx to play handball. It’s so great to hear about how the Bronx was back in the days. Please tell all the stories you can. Up until now I felt like I was the only one defending the Bronx. Although my mom and dad grew up on 149th street, I don’t get to hear the real stories about how it was back than.

Posted in Bronx, Locales, Punchball, Skully, Stickball | Tagged "The Projects", Fordham

I guess I will be considered…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on December 5, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
Original author: Maxwell Kravitz [e-mail]
 

I guess I will be considered the “old fogey” compared to those who have submitted their messages here. I found this site by accident and read all the letters posted here. I was born Oct 24,1921 in the very old original Bronx Hospital on corner Fulton and 169th St. It originally was a beer brewers mansion. Lived at 813 E 170th St (which does not exist anymore) around the corner from the Loews Boston Road Theatre. Schools: PS40, PS61, PS98, Morris H. S. The Bronx will always remain the great passion of my life. The memories that have been stated by others here are equal to mine. Its not easy to erase the past when it was the best time of our lives. and I grew up during the depression whose only silver lining was that folks had more respect and showed more kindest to each other. That we had less is the reason we created those great games like stickball, stoopball, johnny on a pony, kick the can, hide-go-seek, even potsie, I played that too. Nice talking to “ya old Bronxsites” and thanks for the memories Max

Posted in Boston, Bronx, Hopscotch, Locales, Stickball, Stoopball | Tagged I grew up..., potsy

I remember growing up in…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on December 3, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 14, 2014
Original author: dwoncisz [e-mail]
 

I remember growing up in Brooklyn before they had the net and public outcry against pedophiles. All the kids knew where the creeps were. You could always find some guy dressed up as a clown sitting in his car parked outside playground gates, offering children candy or balloons twisted into animal shapes. Invariably some idiot kid would be stupid enough to go to the car and the low-life would flash them. Then the bunch of us would assault the creep with rocks and glass until he drove off. The thought of calling the cops never crossed our minds back then. I guess that’s because it wasn’t talked about in public much. Later as a teen, I remember that the pedophiles were always the guys who wanted to offer you change to play video games when you ran out. And I also remember there was a short bald guy in Washington Square Park who used to try to offer young girls $50.00 to step on him with spike heels in some private place of their choosing. I’m sure their modus operandi has not changed much over the years. Accept they’re more daring and want to do alot more than flash you.

Posted in Brooklyn, Reader Stories | Tagged Chester the Molester, pedophiles

I grew up in Queens (Sunnyside,…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on November 20, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
Original author: HowardG
 

I grew up in Queens (Sunnyside, then Jackson Heights). It was always a “sliding pond.” When there was a parkie at the school playground (PS 149)we would get a Nok-Hockey set. I bought one for my oldest son some years back and we still have it in the basement and play it occasionally. The pucks are now plastic instead of wood. No splinters.

Posted in Playgrounds, Queens | Tagged I grew up..., Jackson Heights

Please visit www.Bronxboard.com…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on November 17, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
Original author: Mindi Weissman-Marra [e-mail]
 

Please visit www.Bronxboard.com and under the menu called Bronx Diary is my story about the park I grew up in and ever so miss. The story I wrote is called “A Walk In The Park”. I hope you enjoy it.

Posted in Bronx, Locales | Tagged I grew up...

I remember these huge acorn…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on November 17, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 13, 2014
Original author: DawnbBXplaya [e-mail]
 

I remember these huge acorn trees that circled my old elementry school, (p.s. 105, Bronx), my sister and I would collect all the acorns on the floor, we had bags and bags full. Than we would go to war with the boys who lived on our block. That’ll teach them not to put hair removal cream on the eggs that they would throw at us on Halloween. Anybody ever play asses up? Well, if you dropped the ball, you better run to the wall because if someone threw it faster than you could run you get a letter, and if you got all 3 letters, everyone got a chance to throw the ball at your ass. OOUUCCHH!!!!

Posted in Bronx, Food & Drink, Street Lifestyle, Toys | Tagged egg cream, weapons of choice

Another street ball game….

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on November 14, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
Original author: Howard G
 

Another street ball game. Where I grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens we used to go to the playground behind my elementary school (P.S. 149 for those in the know). There was a park house that was the home of the “parkie” who was supposed to give out equipment and keep everyone from destroying the playground. His “house” had a slanted roof of all sides. We would stand underneath it and throw the ball up onto the roof, usually at an angle and with some spin. The other player had to catch it on a fly off the roof. If he didn’t it was a single-double-triple-homerun depending on how many bounces. It wasn’t as easy as you would think, especially when the ball landed on the cobblestones and would shoot off into the monkey bars. We could play this, and all the other pink ball games, for hours.

Posted in Other Spaldeen games, Queens | Tagged I grew up..., Jackson Heights

Re: Chinese Handball Might…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on November 14, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
Original author: Howard G
 

Re: Chinese Handball Might as well share with all. It’s been over 35 years since I played chinese handball in Queens, but here goes: Unlike handball, where you have to hit the wall on a fly, in chinese handball you have to hit the wall on a bounce. If you hit it on a fly you’re out. If you hit it on 2 bounces you’re out. If the ball bounces twice before you hit it, you’re out. You can hit it off the wall on a fly, but again you have to bounce it once before it hits the wall. You would decide how large the court was. If you hit it out of bounds you’re out too. Like handball, you could only score a point on your serve. It the ball hit off a crack and went at an odd angle, it was a “hindoo” and you played the point over. Hope this helps.

Posted in Ace King Queen, Other Spaldeen games, Queens, Wallball / Off the Wall/Point | Tagged Chinese handball, Off the Wall

Hi to all: I grew up…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on November 13, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
Original author: Paul Roth
 

Hi to all: I grew up in the East Bronx on Hoe Avenue & 173rd Street in the early 50’s. My friends and I treasured the experience of playing stickball. You guessed right. We dismantled a sturdy mop (usually found on the closest fire escape), together with a Spaldeen(usually a high bouncer)we were then prepared for the choosing up of sides. If I remember correctly on our shoestring budget we weren’t too choosey as to what we really used. It was great fun full of memories.

Posted in Bronx, Other Spaldeen games, Stickball | Tagged Hoe Avenue, I grew up..., spaldeen types

Hi – I grew up in Jackson…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on November 12, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsJanuary 3, 2020
Original author: Howard G
 

Hi – I grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens and played all of the street games everyone else did: Handball, stickball, stoop ball, Chinese handball, boxball, single-double-triple, slapball, errors, etc. Pensie Pinkies definitely were higher bouncers than Spaldeens and easier on the hand for both punchball and handball, especially on cold days. I haven’t seen a Pensie Pinkie in maybe 30 years, but I recently bought a “Spalding” at a Modell’s where I now live in Fairfax County, VA. It cost $1.99 – a far cry from the 15 cents or so when I was a kid, but probably equivalent with 35-40 years of inflation. Anyway, I got to play some fungo stickball with my 10 year old son today, and also introduced him to boxball. I have a stickball bat I bought about 10 years ago. If anyone knows where you can currently get a Pensie Pinkie, let me know. It was great finding this site.

Posted in Ace King Queen, Boxball, Other Spaldeen games, Punchball, Queens, Stickball, Stoopball | Tagged Chinese handball, I grew up..., Jackson Heights, Pennsy Pinkie, spaldeen types

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