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I was wondering if anyone…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on January 14, 2005 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
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I was wondering if anyone knows any information, about a game called “Slugs”. It was a game you played up against an apartment building, and I know you used the cracks on the sidewalk as your own box. It was almost like handball, but you had to hit the ball off your hand and onto the ground first than onto the wall towards the box that you chose to hit it towards, depending on how many players you had. You had the Ace server, and there were a bunch of other players were trying to knock off and become the Ace server. But I don’t remember exactly how you play that game. So if someone can please post any info about this street game I would greatly appreciate it. I love this website. Stay strong and God Bless.

Posted in Ace King Queen, Skully | Tagged slugs (the game)

I was born and raised in…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on January 14, 2005 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
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I was born and raised in the Bronx for 18 yrs of my32 yr old life. I grew up playings skellzies, scully, etc… I moved away from the Bronx when I was 19, to Pa., the country part, so I hope you see where i’m going with this. When I was a younger kid, we played out in the streets til dark, keeping out of trouble, playing such games as stickball, skellzies, kick the can, slugs, and handball. When I first moved out here to Pa., I never gave thought of my childhood games because I was excited about being on my own. Now that I’m married and have three beautiful children, and becoming a born again Christian, I want to bring back some of my childhood memories not only to my own kids, but to my church I attend. My father-in-law is the youth Pastor to our church, and he has a different age group from 12 to 18, but we also have the younger kids who I know would love this game. Ever since I found this website, I’ve been very excited about bringing skellzies back to our new generation. I have told a few people about this game, and they look at me like I don’t know what I’m talking about, but I told them to remember me, cause I’m going to be the one to bring back skellzies and hopefully make it popular again. Thank you again for this website.

Posted in Ace King Queen, Bronx, Skully, Stickball | Tagged I grew up..., slugs (the game)

I played “skelly” frequently…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on January 10, 2005 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 14, 2014
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I played “skelly” frequently in Brighton Beach at 2nd Street park in the sixties. I’ve started teaching my skelly to my 7 year old here in West Los Angeles and hope to begin reviving the “sport” by having him teach his classmates in 2nd grade. He loves melting candles into the bottlecaps. I just remebered that we used to scrape the bottlecaps on the concrete to smooth them out and make them go faster. HERE’S To A SKELLY REVIVAL!

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The plastic disc on the…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on January 10, 2005 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 18, 2014
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The plastic disc on the bottom of a “push up” Ice cream(orange )filled with wax made a great skelly cap.

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what a great site!! i grew…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on January 1, 2005 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
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what a great site!! i grew up playing skelly in bklyn in the 70s and i have recently decided to remind some of my old friends about it, maybe teach some new ones about it, and try to bring it back to life here in bklyn. i am also going to try to document any and all of the permanent skelly courts i can find, starting with bklyn, but hopefully covering the entire city. if anyone knows of a few courts in parks or even painted onto the street, please send me an email. thanks so much!

Posted in Skully | Tagged I grew up...

I grew up playing Skully…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on December 24, 2004 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
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I grew up playing Skully in Brooklyn and Queens in the late fifties. We were never sure how the name of the game was spelled, because there was no occasion to ever actually write the name. We used to melt candle wax into the bottle caps to give them weight, and for some reason, the beer bottle caps were always considered to be the best to have. One of the terms of the game that I haven’t yet seen in various versions of written rules I’ve come across is “Heading for the Hills”. This was when your opponent became a killer and needed to hit you three times in a row to get you out, so you would keeping blasting your own cap down the block so he could hopefully never catch you. “Heading for the Hills” was not really “fair” and usually not allowed but sometimes it was, depending on the mood of the players that day.

Posted in Brooklyn, Queens, Skully | Tagged I grew up...

I grew up in West New York,…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on December 10, 2004 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
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I grew up in West New York, NJ. I lived by St. Mary’s Church on the northwest side of town. Growing up in the late 70’s we used to play “bottle caps”. We had a board that was carved right into the street at the entrance to the park. It was painted blue with red boxes. Very professional. We used to hang out there all day playing. We used bottle caps filled with crayon and pennies for added weight. Some of also melted metal to make’em real heavy. We basically played the same way as the rules on this site state, but we had an interesting twist. We played with what was called “sweeping”. If you landed in a box and someone was outside of that box less than a hand laid flat on the ground away you could litterly take that person cap and sweep it down the block. We also had “chucking” and “sewering”. Chucking was just basically picking up the other persons cap and throwing it a block away or onto the church roof. Sewering was when you swept someones cap into the sewer. Big fun. I used to love it. Went through a lot of caps though. I haven’t seen anyone playing it in a long time. I’m glad people remember such a great game. Also, surrounding 13 was what we called the “pit”. No number just P in each box, so no bonus for knocking anyone out.

Posted in Skully | Tagged crayons, I grew up...

Hi Steve… I was…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on December 2, 2004 by Streetplay DiscussionsMarch 23, 2019
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Hi Steve… I was playing Skellies up in the Bronx (Tremont & Fordham Rd areas) in the late 1960’s through the late 1970’s. If I had known about prescription caps back then, I would have been the undisputed KING OF SKELLIES. Here I am thinking I was doing my thing with the metal caps (taken from the bottom of the chairs in elementary school) with wax, the penny and the whole nine. Next time I will remember. Joe Bronx, NY

Posted in Bronx, Other Games, Skully | Tagged Fordham

P.S. I forgot to thank you…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on December 2, 2004 by Streetplay DiscussionsMay 9, 2019
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P.S. I forgot to thank you for this great website. When I remember skully/skelly, I also have fond memories of having fun outside on hot summer afternoons. I’ve e-mailed your site to my relatives spread out round the country so they may also enjoy this bit of nostalgia. Thanks again. Steve Brown Huntington, NY

Posted in Skully | Tagged Summer

I grew up in the early 60’s…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on December 2, 2004 by Streetplay DiscussionsMarch 23, 2019
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I grew up in the early 60’s on Lacombe Avenue in the Castle Hill Avenue projects in the Bronx. We were privilaged enough to have a skully (skelly) board neatly painted in yellow on the playground area outside. We experimented with a myriad of bottle cap types and fillers. The best “shooters” were the little white (soft) plastic prescription bottle tops. (This pre-dates child-proof caps.) Since the precription bottle caps were much lighter than metal bottle caps, we would weight each of them down with a penny and then fill the cap up to the top with candle or crayon wax. When the wax dryed, we would rub the top of the cap on the ground until it was super-smooth. The plastic precription bottle caps were the best shooters. When you would shoot one, it would ride smoothly along the ground, travel farther than a metal bottle cap, and, with the weight of the penny, it had enough weight to smash a competitor’s cap a mile away. I moved to Long Island, NY when I was 12 and miss playing skully.

Posted in Bronx, Skully | Tagged "The Projects", crayons, I grew up..., White Castle

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