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I was definately a tomboy….

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on May 2, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 13, 2014
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I was definately a tomboy. My favorite things to do were to climb trees/fences, and to race people… Actually, I remember once when I was like 6-7, and I had cut my hair (yes I cut it- in kindergarten, very short- my mom kept the scissors away after that!) and someone called me ‘young man’ (I NEVER wore a skirt/dress, except for school picture day)… hehe.

Posted in Girl games, Street Lifestyle | Tagged tomboy

When I was about 11-13,…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on May 1, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsMay 1, 2000
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When I was about 11-13, I had a young neighbor who I used to ride on my bike. He’d ride in front (I’m still amazed that we both fit on the tiny little seat) and put his feet up on the bar. I still have the bike, and it has ‘scars’ from where he put his feet, hehe… It was soo funny, he was about 4-6 yeard old, and when we got on the bike, he’d say “yeah, bebbay! I’m on my motorcycle!” and “Let’s rock n roll!” before we’d start riding. I took him to the park and stuff a lot, because I always babysat him. I have to say, it was a LOT quicker riding the bike than trying to get him to keep up on his own bike with training wheels.

Posted in Bikes, Toys

Hey, anyone every try to…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on May 1, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsMay 1, 2000
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Hey, anyone every try to play “chicken” on your bikes? I did, with a friend of mine… We chose our block, a long block, then an intersecting street, then another long block. She went down to one end of one long block, I went down to the opposite end of the second long block. We planned to ride as fast as we could toward each other and ‘meet’ at the intersecting street. Well, no one chickened out. We met right in the center of the intersecting street. Probably luckily for us, our bikes were not exactly head-on, so the front tires came alongside each other, our pedals got caught in the other person’s pedals/wheels, and all of us (people and bikes) fell down. I was unhurt, my friend got her ankle scraped by my pedal. The bikes were perfectly fine… I loved bike riding, we’d ride everywhere and anywhere. I only had one bad accident. It was right before my 8th grade graduation. I was riding and I turned my head to see if a friend of mine was home, swerved, and ran into a short (about 1 ft. tall) wall by the alley I was coming up to. I fell off the bike, the bike fell on top of my head. To make a longish story short, I had 3 stitches in my scalp. Ouch.

Posted in Bikes, Toys

Ooooh, anyone have a “Big…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on May 1, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsMay 1, 2000
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Ooooh, anyone have a “Big Wheels” bike when you were a real little kid? I loved those!

Posted in Bikes, Toys

I grew up in the 80s/early…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on May 1, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
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I grew up in the 80s/early 90s, so the scooters I remember are probably different… I still have mine. It’s blue, with a wide standing area, and wheels like tiny bike wheels. I looove that scooter!

Posted in Toys | Tagged I grew up..., scooters

Here are a few I remember…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on May 1, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsMarch 15, 2019
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Here are a few I remember that weren’t for clapping, just to sing/say: Have you ever in your life seen the devil with his wife? No I’ve never in my life seen the devil with his wife. Have you eever iver over in your leefe life lofe seen the deevil divil dovil with his weefe wife wofe? No I’ve neever, niver… etc etc. Then there’s anna, banana, banana SPLIT! Which is either for doing the splits or for chinese jumprope… Here’s a funny one you say. There’s also a version of it in the movie The Labyrinth. Person 1: You remind me of a man! 2: What man? 1: The man with the power! 2: What power?? 1: The power of Whoodoo! 2: Who do? 1: You do! 2: I do what!? 1: You remind me of a man!! And on and on… The way I did it, we would keep acting more frustrated as we went on. Another one like that is where one person says “thank you” the other says “you’re welcome” first says “thank you for saying you’re welcome” second says “thank you for saying thank you for saying you’re welcome” and on and on… I also remember the X marks the spot one. You do it on someone’s back to give them the chills. My friends and I LOVED that one, we’d do it over and over hehe… It was something like this: Circle circle, (mark circles on their back) X X, (mark x’s) spider running down your back, (tickle your fingers lightly down their back) Tight squeeze, (squeeze em) cool breeze, (blow on their back) now you’ve got the chillies! Another game is where you say “I won a _____ (whatever) such as: First person: I won a bicycle Second person: I two a bicycle first person: I three a bicycle second: I four a bicycle first: I five a bicycle second: I six a bicycle first: I seven a bicycle second: I eight a bicycle first person: You ATE a bicycle?!?! This works best with an ‘unsuspecting’ person, hehe… My sister made one up where you don’t stop at 8. You say “I one a turner” and you go up to eighteen, so the person says “I eighteen a turner” and you say “You ate Tina Turner!?” heh.

Posted in Bikes, Clap and Rhyme, Girl games, Jumprope | Tagged Chinese jumprope

My best bike memory was…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 29, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsApril 29, 2000
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My best bike memory was when I hit my neighbors mail box. I always used my bike with shoes to stop, but this day I had no shoes on was also without a shirt. I come flying down the street, turn into the driveway when I see something is in the way, so I move only to hit the mail box knocking me down to the ground. I wake up with the neighbors hovering over me and my bike half way down the street. In the end I was lefted with a HUGE scare on my chest, one on my face, and serval on my back from gravel.

Posted in Bikes, Toys

I’ll have a Ring Ding or…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 28, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
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I’ll have a Ring Ding or a Drakes cake and a chocolate malted made the right way. Rob Auerbach Colleenandrob [at] yahoo [dot] com

Posted in Food & Drink, Reader Stories

I grew up in the Highbridge…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 28, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
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I grew up in the Highbridge area of the Bronx. I lived at 1050 Anderson Ave and 901 Woodycrest Ave. What great times and great memories. Playing stickball in PS73 school yard, hanging out down by the Harlem river and running around in the abandoned subway “The Shuttle” than ran under our neighborhood. Nothing in my life has topped those times and if there was a time machine I’d be there now. Rob Auerbach Colleenandrob [at] yahoo [dot] com

Posted in Bronx, Hanging Out, Locales, Manhattan, Stickball | Tagged Harlem, I grew up...

Yes sliding pond was the…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 22, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsApril 22, 2000
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Yes sliding pond was the term. I have asked several people, who are 40+, all call it that. Not sure about people under 30 though. Will keep inquiring.

Posted in Playgrounds | Tagged backyards

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