Category Archives: Skully
Hello fellow skully/skelly…
Hello fellow skully/skelly fans, My name is Shannon and I work at a rec center. Most of you guys talk about growing up in the 50s in New York. You people must be the pros at this game! I was born in the 80s. Since, I work at a playground, I am going to bring this game back to life! I have to run a camp this summer. So, what better way to keep the kids busy then, having a Skully camp! I need to ask you guys a favor. I need as much imformation about Skully as possible. If you have the time can you write me at RoyOrbisonfan18 [at] yahoo [dot] com or Jlennnonfan19 [at] yahoo [dot] com and tell me everything you know? I want to talk to the ulimate Skully players! I promise I will write back! This site is awesome! Thanks! Shannon/Skullyfan19
I’m passing this great game…
I’m passing this great game onto my kids. Growing up in Brooklyn we played everyday at times, in fact the whole block played, kids of all ages. I also remember using my Easy Bake Oven to make the skully caps. It was a blast (NO COMPUTER NEEDED!!!) At one time we were playing so much we decided to paint the board onto the street so we didn’t have to draw it all the time. It’s great to play it again with my kids and bring the game to NJ. Get out there with your kids and have some fun!!!
I grew up in West Baltimore…
I grew up in West Baltimore and my friends and I played skully, especailly during the summer, almost everyday. This was during the 70s. We used for caps the tops from the plastic gallon milk jugs and the tops from certain liquor bottles, which we mainly found in alleys. The tops were made out of a sturdy plastic, which allowed us to melt the crayons and candles wax right into the caps. Also during heat waves, we would dig up asphalt from the streets and rooftops to fill in the caps.
I grew up in Brooklyn during…
I grew up in Brooklyn during the 60’s and 70’s. Skelly was a daily routine. My favorite caps were made with Crayola crayons (melted them right in my mothers frying pan (yikes). Once my older sister helped create a cap made with wax that looked like a target! It was the coolest cap ever.
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The new 2006 Skelly Board…
The new 2006 Skelly Board Game is about to happen! Please go to the new website for more infomation! skellyvisioninternational.com Major investor eyebrows are lifting to support the new Skellyboard game so that we can get the game to you. Please show your support and remember that skelly originated in the streets.From the bottom to the top, skelly will prevail! Call 212 300- 5871 to talk directly to patent owner Darryl!
I just found this site and…
I just found this site and it’s great.We played skully for hours on end on 189th St.in Manhattan.In between,we’d play stickball,off the point(curbball)or Johnny ride the pony.Also,I noticed someone mentioned “slugs”.We called this “Chinese” which I found out was short for Chinese handball.How about that,a bottlecap,a broomstick,and a “spaldeen” was all the equipment we needed for fun from March to November.Who needs Playstation?
Bottle cap art. When I was…
Bottle cap art. When I was younger, twist-off caps were just starting to be seen but no skelsie player would ever be caught dead using one. They were too, light, tall, whatever. They just weren’t used. Crimp-crown caps were the cap of choice. If fact, caps with a cork liner were prefered to those with the new-fangled plastic liner. The cork liner had to be dug out with a can opener or screw driver. If you were good (lucky) the liner would come out in one piece. The cap was then delicatly balanced on the burner of your stove (I think I was in my twenties before I saw an electric stove) and heated. Various pieces of wax crayons (Crayola, anything else was crap) were then added and allowed to melt. The skill was in selecting and mixing the colors to arrive at an eyepleasing design, something like a spin-art picture. Crayon added near the end remained the most vivid but the best caps were made by letting the melted crayon boil and convex. The cap was then taken off the heat and floated in a shallow pan of water to set the design. If the cap sunk you were left with a 3-D wax sculpture, pretty to look at but not playable. About two thirds of the time the colors would just run together. The resulting cap would be fine for playing but not much to look at. Every once in a while, though, you’d get a real work of art.