Anybody here from the Bronx,…
Anybody here from the Bronx, Brooklyn, or Queens who grew up in the 40’s-70’s please e-mail me.
Anybody here from the Bronx, Brooklyn, or Queens who grew up in the 40’s-70’s please e-mail me.
Just to let you know I have a number of images on my website of children at play. Also, an image of boys playing “Conkers”. www.richardsteele.com
Yo, Yall did not have anything in here about tops. We used to wind these things up with a string and shoot them and they would spin. At the outset of the game all participants would shoot their tops. The one whose top spun the longest would shoot first all others had to put their top into a “pot” where the shooter would try to “costy” all of the tops in that pot. There was no real winner in this game, but the one with the most colors on his or her top would have braging rights. I just had a friend of mine buy me one of these tops, and I keep it on my mantle piece. this game is one of the coolest games from the past. Rich provide133@aol
My daughter was doing a school project comparing what I did in middle school to what she does. One of the questions was what did I do for fun. Skully was the first thing that came to mind. I’m from Brooklyn and now live in Maryland so my daughter looked at me like I was crazy. I tried to describe the game to her but I was alittle fuzzy so I looked it up online. A couple of things I noticed right away were the board and the scully cap. Every block in my neighborhood had a perminant board about 6′ x 6′ or so dug into the tar of the street, no chalk to get washed away, I want to say we used a screwdriver to accomplish this. Our caps were also filled with tar from the street that we dug out with the screwdriver. This was best done on hot days so the tar was softer. I see alot of refernces to sidewalk game, again everyone I knew played it in the street. I did get annoying yelling “car” or if a car’s tire made your piece move, but since the street was our playground we lived with it.
Yo Lou: http://www.streetplay.com/skully/ ‘nuf said. -Hugh M. McNally /
Does anyone remember a game called skelly or skully (I’m getting old) where you flick a bottlecap around a numbered field on the pavement or if lucky a pre-fab one in a playground. The object of the game is to go to all 12 numbers before your opponent whilst beinmg able to knock him out of a box. Remember?