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Okay, here’s a suggestion….

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on May 17, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 18, 2014
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Okay, here’s a suggestion. Problem is, it’s not tongue in cheek, and technically it’s not losing money, more like giving it away. If you’re all about street games, take the money to the streets! Start with New York since that seems to be where many of our roots are. Have a city-wide street games tournament and exhibition – give prizes and award money! Get sponsors – that way they can lose their money too! Maybe make it an annual thing. Imagine streets of the City closed off to punchball games, stickball games, skelly (or skully depending on where you were from), jacks, jump rope, etc. If it loses enough money in New York, you can take the show on the road and lose money in other urban areas.

Posted in Punchball, Site suggestions, Skully, Stickball | Tagged Streetplay business goals

I grew up on the Lower east…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on May 17, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
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I grew up on the Lower east Side and played skulley throughout the late seventies/early eighties. I just read your rules document, and it seems complete. We had prepainted boards that did not have numbers in the skull except 13 of course. We just gave everyone 6 boxus/advances if you knocked someone out of the skull. If you knocked them from skull section to skull section it was treated as a standard hit. Our start was also much further from box # 1. Usually on the oposite side of the board, so beginers often found themself in the skull on turn one. We often switched caps when we became killers and used blasters. My favorite was the libby caps (about the size of todays snapple caps)

Posted in Locales, Manhattan, Skully | Tagged I grew up..., Lower East Side

Hey there Sean… I didn’t…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on May 17, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 18, 2014
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Hey there Sean… I didn’t see that you had the last Message… Thanks for sending me the link to this site… It’s very cool… By the way… For all the rest of you, I am from Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn… Maurice again…

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Great site is right… The…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on May 17, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsMay 17, 1999
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Great site is right… The way we used to play skulley (Though we used to call it Skelley). You had to go up the numbers and down the numbers and then you were a SHARK. You then had to hit the other players 3 times. Then you win. We also had the rule that is your cap started to roll on it’s side you could kick it as far the hell away from the board as you could kick… Great game, great site… Maurice

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This is a great site.I am…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on May 15, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 14, 2014
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This is a great site.I am so happy to see that someone has started to compile the rules and variations of skulley ( what the game was known as in flatbush,B’klyn during the 70’s; friends from bensonsonhurst and e. ny call it skellsey).I do remember the parks dep’t putting in a few skulley boards during the late 70’s ( because we kept carving into the soft tar).And, as for standard size ,I think that usually depended on the playing field ( street, park,sidewalk). You were only allowed to use “cheats” (i.e.-catholic school desk glides,lead, coins, rocks, caps from non beverage bottles i.e.-extra wide cleaning bottle caps) as long as everybody had a tricked out cap. The caps were picked out by how flat and heavy they were ( a cap that was from a hard to find product or a discontinued style wer always prized). The next step was selection of material to be inserted into the cap(tar,crayons,lead,coins,prayer candles).Crayons always were the preferred method because of how cool looking the cap would come out. Next you would melt it ( radiator was my method, Mom wasn’t too happy about the psychedlic patterns it left). Then you would spend an hour grinding it smooth on a sidewalk to make it ready for play.

Posted in Skully | Tagged crayons

Love that picture of Yogi…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on May 11, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsMay 11, 1999
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Love that picture of Yogi with the Yoohoo bottles. Different neighborhoods had different boards. You might want to show some of the variations.

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Melting the crayons was…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on May 11, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsMarch 24, 2019
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Melting the crayons was the best part. We’d put them on the radiator in the winter, stove at other times. Love to watch them melt and add little chips to try to change the coloring

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Pictures of melting crayons,…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on May 9, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 14, 2014
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Pictures of melting crayons, maybe some swirly caps. How about a contest for the best cap?

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I grew up in Flatbush during…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on May 7, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
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I grew up in Flatbush during the late 50s early 60s, and I played alot of skelley. What was really nice was that I hung out on a dead end street (E 22) and there wasn’t much traffic to interrupt the game. I do recall a that there were usually a few games going at any given time, There was usualy a fresh board drawn to play on, although most of us took great pride in our ability to lay out “The best” Skelley court. The sale of chalk in my neighborhood was probably up there with milk or newspapers. In my neghborhood, we only used soda or beer caps. It was a blessing when twist-offs came out ’cause then you didn’t have to try and straighten out a bent cap to use it. Before them, opening a soda bottle, to get the cap became an artform. We’d melt crayons into the caps, sometimes trying to mix and swirl the colors before it cooled.

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Thanks so very much for…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on May 6, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 18, 2014
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Thanks so very much for recording the rules, Hugh. I haven’t played Skully since Jr High, I would guess, which was about 45 years ago. The best Skully piece I ever had was a wooden checker (do they make them any more? All I ever see now are plastic ones) that had a hole in the middle (burned with a soldering iron) which was then filled with molten lead. Bronx Gal

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