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In response to a request…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 23, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsFebruary 2, 2019
Original author: Joe DeLucia [e-mail]
 

In response to a request for the ‘weirdest’ skelly cap, I’d like to add that in Brooklyn, NY during the early ’70s we used the rounded metal feet from the bottom of Catholic school desks. Once we found how well they slid across the street pavement, many of the desks at school (St. Simon and Jude) were imbalanced. It quickly got out of hand and became an unfair advantage for those who were using the standard bottle cap with melted crayons (as the feet were much heavier). I’ll also note that most boards were made in the street with chalk (don’t remember any standard dimensions), but one year we carved a more permanent one into the tar with pocket knives. Thanks for the memories. Makes me think back on other street games like Johnny on the Pony, Ring-o-Leavy-o, Coco-Leavy-o, Slap ball, Box ball, the other game played on a box ball setup (2 adjacent sidewalk boxes) where you had to flip and/or move the popsickle stick or coin -sorry I can’t remember the name…

Posted in Boxball, Brooklyn, Johnny on the Pony, Other Spaldeen games, Skully | Tagged crayons

P.S.114 in Canarsie was…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 19, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
Original author: Mousey [e-mail]
 

P.S.114 in Canarsie was the place to go for a game of stickball, handball, football, basketball, skulley, Johnny on the Pony, Marbles, Knock Hockey, Punchball, Pitching nickels against the wall or the line, ringalevio, war, slapball and softball just to name a few. There was even some weird guy from Czeckloslavokia who used to hit a soccer[?] ball off his head, {what a strange boring game} but we could never get the ball from him. Glory Days! Mousey

Posted in Brooklyn, Johnny on the Pony, Locales, Playgrounds, Punchball, Stickball | Tagged Canarsie

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Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 12, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsMay 9, 2019
Original author: Connie [e-mail]
 

Guess what? I still have all my marbles from the sixties. I don’t know how they survived but they are here and on the mantle piece. We used to play marbles but none of us knew any rules, so, we would make them up. I guess that’s the way it goes with marbles. In our old kitchen, the linoleum had buckled and my dad had nailed down the trough of the buckle. The coolest thing was that it created sort of an elevated highway for the marbles to travel along. The kitchen being an important place, my discovery of the unique properties of the lino forced a banning of the marbles from the kitchen floor. I guess that’s why I still have them. Last summer, I invited some kids from my block into the living room and they discovered the marbles. These two six year old girls had a chance to make up their own rules and play with my marbles. They are still asking if they can come over and play marbles. It’s great!

Posted in Johnny on the Pony, Marbles, Other Games | Tagged Summer

I grew up in New York on…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 7, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
Original author: jonathan amson
 

I grew up in New York on the upper West Side, and we played stickball against the Firemen’s Monument at 100th Street and Riverside Drive. We drew a strike box on the side of the monument with chalk, a pitcher’s mound about 50 feet up the street, and a batter’s box on the street. We used a broom handle (usually wrapped with electrical tape on the handle) and pink rubber balls made by the Spaulding Company (which were universally known as Spaldeens). A single was a ball hit past the pitcher’s rubber on the fly, which hit before the doorway of a building about 75 feet up the street; a double had to be hit on the fly between the marker for a single and another building about 150 feet up the street; a triple had to be hit between the end of the marker for a double and the top of the hill; and a home run was a ball hit over the top of the hill on 100th Street. When I went to buy Spaldeens at the candy store, I looked for ones that had a little extra rubber at the seam from the molding process, because I was one of the few guys who could throw a curve ball with a Spaldeen. There was this one guy I played against, who every time I threw curve balls to him and he swung and missed, who would scream at me, “You cheated! You threw a curve ball!” He could never hit a curve ball, and he was a patsy every time he came up to bat against me. I would set him up with pitches low and inside just over the corner of the plate, then strike him out any time I wanted to with a curve ball that started outside, and broke in at his hands. And you could guarantee that he would be yelling that I cheated, because I threw the curve ball he couldn’t hit. The funny thing is that 45 years later I am now a senior scientist at a major corporation, and he is a big-shot Wall Street lawyer pulling in megabucks, and every time I see him (about twice a year), I can still piss him off by reminding him that he could never hit a curve ball. And you can guarantee he will still be complaining that I won because I cheated, throwing him curve balls.

Posted in Food & Drink, Johnny on the Pony, Stickball | Tagged candy store, I grew up...

Loved buck buck.. Had the…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 6, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 18, 2014
Original author: Mike berntsen [e-mail]
 

Loved buck buck.. Had the guys who would run up the backs and take a high jump to collaspe the line.. We all cheated about how many horns were up.. Strange, but looking back, I never known a kid to get really hurt.. Being the pillar was cool…. Mike

Posted in Johnny on the Pony, Other Games

I just heard about skully…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 5, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 14, 2014
Original author: JimV [e-mail]
 

I just heard about skully for the first time about a week ago talking to a guy who grew up in Brooklyn. In Philly we called it deadbox. I imagine it’s pretty much the same game with boxes 1 to 12 and the deadbox, always decorated with a skull and crossbones. It’s way funny how all the games were similar like buck-buck instead of Johnie on the Pony or whatever…but damn it they were all fun. Kids today don’t know how to play and how good clean and sometimes physical fun. whatever….

Posted in Brooklyn, Johnny on the Pony, Philadelphia, Skully | Tagged deadbox

I played “buck buck” in…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 5, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 18, 2014
Original author: Ron Miller [e-mail]
 

I played “buck buck” in Chicago in the early 50’s when I was about 9 years old. Thanks for bringing back some fond childhood memories.

Posted in Chicago, Johnny on the Pony, Other Games

how about “Johnnie on the…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 5, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsApril 5, 1999
Original author: carmine [e-mail]
 

how about “Johnnie on the Pony?”

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Johnny on the pony was called…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on March 31, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
Original author: Bob Cavaliere
 

Johnny on the pony was called “Buck Buck” in South Brooklyn. One team would crouch over one behind the other with one member “The Pillar” standing against a wall. The other team would leap on to the backs of the team crouched over, hoping to double or triple up on one person. The object was to cause a cave in. When all members of the leaping team were up on top of the other team, one of them would hold up one or two fingers and yell out “Buck Buck how many fingers are up. If the team crouched over guessed right, they would get to leap, if not, they had to crouch over again. “The Pillar” was the judge to make sure the leaping team did not cheat.

Posted in Brooklyn, Johnny on the Pony, Other Games

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