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Sorry my message above doesnt belong in the skully posts. BUT, i havent read all the skully posts on the size of the board,but the NYC PARKS DEPT. used to paint these in yellow in most parks,has anyone checked with them,they may have old records on file. As i remember they all where the same size in the parks,they must have had a templete to make them all the same.I hope this helps.
Ive read alot of the differant…
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Ive read alot of the differant posts here,and alot of us all played the same or variations of the same games,but alot of posts mention smells after a rain,and warm city nights,hot endless summer days,sounds up on a fire escape.The haze on the streets,steam from manholes. This was the other half of our lives,our sences have a memory too. A sound or scent from our past can transport you to childhood for a minute,i love getting those minutes,and search for them when ever i can.
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Played skully in Glen Oaks,Queens,at…
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I was thinking the same as you were Dave S. I remember growing up in NYC and all we would do was play Skully. The funny thing about it is about two weeks ago, I was at my parents home and we actually brought up the conversation of playing skully as kids, as I try to explain to my wife (who is originally from California) the rules of the game. My most favorite memory was: this one summer in Prospect Park, they had a Skully tournament, that yes, I did win. The prize, an official fold up Skully board. That I unfortunately and regretably lost. I am going to have to make one and show my kids how its done.
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I just finished telling a story about the game to my goddaugter and her cousin. They had a hopscotch board drawn on the driveway. I tried a search for this game many years ago but no luck because I wasn’t sure about the real name. I got lucky today by searching for street games. I thought we used to call it scalesies or loadies. It was painted in most of the project parks. I played all over TAFT, and Foster projects when I was a kid. I lived right in 1694 Madison Ave. I used to go to different bodegas just to find multi-colored poker chips to make caps. I used bubble gum after chewing out all of the sugar. My nickname was Howslinger
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i dont know if you guys follow this website anymore. I see that the last post was four years ago. But I felt compelled to leave a message I lived in Florida Orlando/Tampa/ Miami. I am about 31 now but when I was about 10 years old my cousins from NY introduced me to the game one summer. And it wasnt long before the whole neighborhood was addicted. anyhow thought I would leave my little story to let you guys know that this game made its way down to sunny south florida. later
For skully caps our favorites…
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For skully caps our favorites in my bronx neighborhood were the plastic liquor bottle tops filled with some tar scraped out of the street; or the metal cap from the bottom of the school chairs legs that made the chairs slide on the floors. The school chair pieces were heavy enough the you didn’t need to give it any additional weight, the only problem was the extreme difficulty of getting it off of the bottom of the chair leg. In all the years that I tried I don’t think that I ever got one off of a chair.