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Okay, you’ve given me more…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 6, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
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Okay, you’ve given me more Brooklyn memories. It seems like my Brooklyn recollections are a shared collective across Boroughs and State lines. Of course there was the knishman. And no potato knish since then has tasted quite so right. There was also the Chow Chow Cup, which sold Chinese food in a cup that could be eaten. And there was the Good Humor Man who sold ice cream out of a truck. And of course the trucks that had the rides in the back of them. When I think of those trucks I can’t believe they never tipped over. All those memories of living in the City. Are my kids deprived because they won’t have them?

Posted in Brooklyn, Food & Drink, Reader Stories

I had a childhood like lisas,…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 6, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
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I had a childhood like lisas, join in or get left out and called a sissy or a priss. we played 4 square, SPUD, wolf, hide and go seek, hopscotch, jumprope games, like school, cinderella, chase me, sea shells ect

Posted in Girl games, Hide & Seek, Hopscotch, Jumprope, Reader Stories | Tagged runs in the family

Who did it? Cagan did…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 6, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsApril 6, 1999
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Who did it? Cagan did it. Put his mother In a can.

Posted in Reader Stories | Tagged pranks and troublemaking

It’s me again — the person…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 6, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
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It’s me again — the person who started this “ice cream, knish man, etc” topic. Just thought of something else. I remember the milk man, the Fuller Brush man, and the man who sold seltzer in big blue bottles. I remember going to the corner luncheonette (I don’t think they call them luncheonettes anymore), and buying egg creams after school. I haven’t seen one of those blue seltzer bottles in years. Several years ago, I decided to make an egg cream for my daughter (who has never seen or tasted a “real” one). I made it using Canada Dry seltzer. Wasn’t bad…but it wasn’t like I remembered. But now she’s a convert! But…she keeps asking me where the “egg” is in the egg cream. I haven’t a clue. 🙂

Posted in Food & Drink, Reader Stories | Tagged egg cream

Now here is something to…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 5, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
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Now here is something to bring back memories!

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In the city of Trenton I…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 5, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsFebruary 16, 2019
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In the city of Trenton I lived in the “projects” and we had a pizza truck, a waffle truck, and a cotton candy man.Of course we had Mister frostie who played his music all over the neighborhood.I love your site it brings back many memories.

Posted in Food & Drink, Reader Stories | Tagged "The Projects", pizza

Growing up all the kids…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 5, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsApril 5, 1999
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Growing up all the kids in the neighborhood played together, boys and girls. Maybe all of us girls were tom-boys, or since that was our only option (join in or get left behind)it molded us into tom-boys! Whatever the case, “boys games” were much more fun, and us girls kept up with them in pickle, butts up, D & D, street ball, and bike races. It was great!

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Remember the name of the…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 5, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
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Remember the name of the Marshmellow cookies with a marshmellow stuffed between two vanilla wafers?? Those were my favorite.. Let me know if you don’t remember..

Posted in Food & Drink, Reader Stories

Girl games… we used to…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 5, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 14, 2014
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Girl games… we used to sit in the vestibule of someone’s house and play “jacks” for hours and hours. Growing up in Pittsburgh, right in the city, not in one of the cleaner suburbs, we played in the streets everynight. Red Rover, Cigarette Tag, Freeze Tag, Can’t cross the Mississippi unless you have(a shouted color) on, then everyone would run across the street if you had that color on. Anyone remember that one?

Posted in Hanging Out, Reader Stories | Tagged stoop sitting, suburbia

Remember the guys that would…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 3, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
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Remember the guys that would come around with rides on the back of their truck. Grew up in Fresh Meadows, Queens. Also bungalow bar ice cream

Posted in Food & Drink, Queens, Reader Stories

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