We used to fish the lost spauldeens out of the sewers in astoria projects where I grew up by fashioning a metal coat hanger with a little loop at the bottom enough to lift the ball out of the muck. Someone called “chips” on the ball, 15 cents was couple days of bottle hunting…Yuk…here’s your ball kid.
Sneaking on the train Did anyone ever sneak on the train growing up in east new york brooklyn we would sneak on the train jumping the turnstyle climbing up the outside of the elevated lines. dangerous” crossing the tracks to get to the other side one day my brother fell through and just grabbed on before he fell to the street below, crazy
Hot Peas and Butter anyone remember hot peas and butter a kind of a brutal game as I remember it someone would hide a belt from the rest and the search would begin, the object would be to find the belt first, and chase ands smack the rest with the belt untill the got “home” you would be helped by the person who hid the belt by them saying hot or cold as you would search.
Our fires escape was on Amsterdam Avenue and 65th Street (before Lincoln Center). My girlfriend lived in the apt. beneath us. She and I had tin cans attached by a string hanging from fire escape to fire escape, so we could chat as we ate cut-up Fig Newtons and penny candy and sunned ourselves on our “terraces.” The metal structures provided a respite from the heat of the tenement buildings where not a fan, certainly no air conditioner, could be found “back in the day.”
my first kiss happened about a month ago. we were riding home from a football game on a BAND BUS. the whole way home i was curled up in his lap with his arm around me and my head on his shoulder, but as we pulled back into our school, he lifted his head off of mine, and i looked up to see what he was doing, and he leaned in and kissed me! it wasnt just a peck, but it wasnt frenching or anything. it was just an awesome and scary feeling that i absolutely love.
i got my first kiss tonight… im 13 and had my girlfriend karla over. we were in my bedroom writing silly little notes with this pen that u can only see the ink under a black light. we were sitting on my couch and i was writing i love karla on my arm i hold the black light to it and laugh,i kinda messed up on the heart i said. she says i think its perfect. naww i say. and she says it is to me and leans over and gives me my first kiss. i hesitated for a minute or so and said i love u karla dont forget. i wont she says. and she rests her head on my shoulder. omgi love this gurl if u ever see this karla dont forget your first kiss i love u!