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did anyone else have trouble…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 16, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 18, 2014
Original author: m.j. kissane
 

did anyone else have trouble getting the parkie to open up and hand out the balls and other equipment (checkers and stuff like that)? there used to be 2-3 parkies in the house who would be playing cards and wouldn’t open up unless you got a mom to go over. our park was not too close so we didn’t go very often. we had see saws (see saw margery daw), sliding ponds (i’d forgotten that term!), monkey bars (wish they were still around), a ‘pool’ (just a bunch of sprinklers in a recessed area. the only way you got a ‘pool’ out of it was to plug the drains with tissues), skully board (bottle caps), sand pile and a big grassy area. it was up the hill from ps11. can’t remember the street name but the carmelite convent was up there, too. (da bronx) we did the swing tricks, too. one standing, one sitting, ducking under, standing up for maximum ‘pump’. would we kill our kids for doing this now? thanks for the memories!!!

Posted in Bronx, Playgrounds

Hey Big Daddy, I…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 16, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsMarch 25, 2016
Original author: Ed Almodovar [e-mail]
 

Hey Big Daddy, I absolutely remember triangle baseball. I lived in the bed-stuy section of Brooklyn. We used to play on Pulaski St. Between Stuyvesant Ave and Willoughby. It was a one-way street where we played most of our neighborhood games and we played them all. Stickball, chinese handball, fast pitch stickball with automatics, off-the-point, stoopball, boxball, ringalievio, hide-and-seek, kick-the-can, johnny on the pony, skelleys, marbles. All these games were great but I haven’t heard anybody mention – Spinning Tops – a wooden top (shaped like a hot air ballon) with a metal point on the bottom and we would wrap a string around the it then throw the top on the asphalt making it spin. We would play games like crack-the-top. This game was played by two or more players and the object was to shoot your top at the top on the ground in an attempt to crack it.You would choose to see whose top would be layed on the ground. Then taking one turn at a time each player would spin his top attempting to hit the top on the ground. If you didn’t hit it in one shot you could pick up the top in your hand while it was spinning and throw against the top on the ground then you would get another chance.If in your turn, you couldn’t hit the object top then you would have to lay your top down to be the target top. –Making wooden carpet guns–. The easy way to make one was with a piece of 1×4 or anything similar about three feet in length. Then we would attach a thick rubber band to the front with a nail. Toward the back part of the gun on the top edge, we would then attach a clothes pin with one leg cut off using a few rubber bands to hold it in place.This would act as the trigger. We would then cut little squares from a section of linoleoum flooring to use as ammo. We would then pull back the front rubber band holding it in place under the clothes pin. We would insert a piece of ammo between the the two legs of the rubber band and to shoot the ammo we would press down on the leg of the clothes pin thereby releasing the ammo. How about –Scooters–, made out of a wooden box a two by four and a one skate. We would decorate the box with bottle caps, paint and anything we could think of. I live in Florida now and we have a group of about 20 to 30 ex New Yorkers. Every year we have an annual xmas picnic. At the picnic we have a fathers against sons stickball game and we play a serious game of skelleys. Those were the best days of my life and if had it all to do over again, I wouldn’t change one thing from my childhood days growing up on the streets of the big city. By the way if someone knows where I can find some Spalding HI-Bouncers if they still exist please post the info on this site.

Posted in Ace King Queen, Boxball, Brooklyn, Johnny on the Pony, Other Spaldeen games, Stickball, Stoopball | Tagged Chinese handball, Willoughby Avenue

hi! another highbridger…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 16, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsJune 16, 2000
Original author: m.j. kissane [e-mail]
 

hi! another highbridger checking in. i went to sacred heart and moved ‘upstate’ after 8th grade. anyone out there remember the ‘board’ and rules for bottle caps? you had to shoot your bottle cap from box to box and try to keep your opponents from doing the same. want to teach my nephew who will never know the joys of street games! 1360 ogden ave. where are the rest of you???

Posted in Bronx, Locales

We always used Spaldeens…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 16, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsJanuary 3, 2020
Original author: Jackie Olivia
 

We always used Spaldeens in the Bronx– One day, Willie’s candy store had Pennyslvania Pinkies for sale — no spaldeens! We bought one to play SLUG with — it was horrible. Later we did the Spaldeen/PP test — droppping them both to the ground at the same time. Spaldeen won — it just had that extra zip to it!

Posted in Ace King Queen, Bronx, Food & Drink, Other Spaldeen games | Tagged candy store, Pennsy Pinkie, slugs (the game), spaldeen types

In Brooklyn we used to play…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 15, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
Original author: Ed Almodovar [e-mail]
 

In Brooklyn we used to play Johnny on the Pony in the street from one side of the street to the other (sidewalk to sidewalk). The objective was to make the pony cave-in before the pillar could say ‘Johnny on the Pony 1-2-3’ three times. So naturally when you would choose sides you’d want the fattest kid on your side. One drawback of picking the fattest kid was that he could hardly jump.The jumpers once on top were not supposed to move or rock back and forth but they did it anyway. If the pony caved in before the three count, the jumpers would get another turn to jump. If the pony did not cave or one of the jumpers touched the ground with their foot or fell off, then the rolls would reverse and the jumpers would then become the pony.

Posted in Brooklyn, Johnny on the Pony, Other Games

Anyone familliar with the…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 13, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsJune 13, 2000
Original author: DickF [e-mail]
 

Anyone familliar with the Vanderveer Estates

Posted in Brooklyn, Locales

I belonged to Flatbush Boys…

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

I belonged to Flatbush Boys Club on Bedford Ave in Bklyn. Where else could you go swimming in the winter and walk home in Bklyn. Great, Marty M, Church Ave.

Posted in Brooklyn, Locales | Tagged Flatbush Boys Club

The bronx in the 50’s…”lefty…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 12, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 18, 2014
Original author: Anonymous
 

The bronx in the 50’s…”lefty grove”, a game where you pitched against a box on the schoolyard wall and the batter attempted to hit it out.

Posted in Bronx, Other Spaldeen games

This is a hand clapping…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 12, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsMarch 15, 2019
Original author: Anonymous
 

This is a hand clapping rhyme that my friend & I played in Ridgewood, Queens/Brooklyn NY in the 50’s. We are the Brooklyn girls We wear our hair in curls, We wear our dungarees Rolled up above our knees Sorry I can’t recall the rest…anyone???

Posted in Brooklyn, Clap and Rhyme, Girl games, Queens

In the southern part of…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 11, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsJanuary 3, 2020
Original author: Lloyd Reife [e-mail]
 

In the southern part of Brownsville,”spaldeens” were the choice over “pennsy Pinkies”. When we could not afford to buy a Spaldeen (at 25 cents), we’d settle for a Pennsy Pinky. There were days we’d lose 5-6 Spaldeens under moving vehicles or to the sewers of the city. There was no more comforting logo than Spalding’s on their light-pink colored ball. It had more consistency to the bounce than the Pennsy Pinkie. It was like comparing Fox’s U-Bet Chocolate syrup to Bosco in Brownsville, Brooklyn.

Posted in Brooklyn, Other Spaldeen games | Tagged Pennsy Pinkie, spaldeen types

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