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In response to a request…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 23, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsFebruary 2, 2019
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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

I grew up in Sunset Park…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 22, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
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I grew up in Sunset Park too,I don’t know if the game was unique to the area but remember playing it.Sometimes you would hit the stick and it would bounce back closer to you making your next shot a lot easier.

Posted in Boxball, Hit the penny / stick / etc., Other Games, Other Spaldeen games | Tagged I grew up...

I grew up in Sunset Park,…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 22, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
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I grew up in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. I also remember playing “hit the stick”. We also played with the icecream stick, standing on opposite ends of 2 cement squares, and trying to hit the stick with a “spalding” ball. I think the winner would be the first one to score 10 or maybe 20 points.

Posted in Boxball, Brooklyn, Hit the penny / stick / etc., Other Games, Other Spaldeen games | Tagged I grew up...

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Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 21, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsFebruary 2, 2019
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Hello all, Welcome to the exploding world of skully! All the chat is gratifying… wow, I even found a “flicking-finger-game ethnologist” out there (thanks, Glenn Kuntz)! My first draft of the Official Skully Rules are now available in .PDF format only (too tired to do a decent HTML treatment right now): http://www.streetplay.com/skully/rules/pdf/skullyrules.pdf To read this document, you’ll need the popular Adobe Acrobat Reader, available at: http://www.adobe.com/ (just look for the yellow “Get Acrobat Reader” button on Adobe’s home page). I’m sure there’s mistakes, and maybe stuff you disagree with, but it’s a start! Let me know how you like it!

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I grew up on 173 St &…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 21, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsFebruary 2, 2019
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I grew up on 173 St & St. Nick. in Washington Heights back in the early sixties. Bottle caps with the melted crayons were cool, but for maximum speed and ease of shooting we used to rub the very top of the old glass soda bottles over the sewer covers until they broke off. Of coarse sooner or later someone would hit you hard enough to break it, but those old time bottles were pretty thick! Man this stuff sure brings back the memories!!!

Posted in Manhattan, Skully | Tagged crayons, I grew up..., Washington Heights

I remember playing this…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 20, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsDecember 4, 2019
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I remember playing this when I was a kid growing up in Baltimore in the early 80’s. I think we used to call it skellet(s)? I live in nowhere Pennsylvania now and no one here has ever heard of it. We used to melt wax in them also, and when it got really hot out we would scrape the soft tar off the street and put it in the cap for weight and cover it with the wax. I sucked at that damn game.

Posted in Skully | Tagged Pennsy Pinkie

Thats the way we played…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 20, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsApril 20, 1999
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Thats the way we played on 51st between 6th and 7th. Sunset Park Rules as they would now say.. Not to many here from our neighborhood..

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I grew up in Sunset Park,…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 20, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
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I grew up in Sunset Park, Brooklyn…57th St. I also remember playing the game and having to say “Caught Caught Alevio, 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3” and then the person would be caught. It definitely sounds like the same game. Anyone else remember playing this way?

Posted in Brooklyn, Other Games, Ringoleavio | Tagged I grew up...

I think the people have…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 20, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsApril 20, 1999
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I think the people have spoken. I will upload the rules as I write them–the “installment plan” I suppose–and post the URL to them in this forum (the rules are far too lengthy to post here). I intend to do an HTML and Adobe Acrobat version of these rules, the latter for increased printability. Ken, no question is foolish. When you “shoot” a skully cap, you flick it with your finger and the cap then glides like a shuffleboard disk. After I am finished with the rules, perhaps I can get some photos if various techniques being employed…

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Fascinating discussions…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 20, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsMay 9, 2019
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Fascinating discussions of a game that I have never heard of but intend to start playing with my daughters immediately. One probably foolish question: when you say shoot, do you mean as in gliding the top along the pavement as you would in shuffleboard? Or are you bouncing them into place liking pitching pennies?

Posted in Skully | Tagged Pitching pennies

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