If you get a top ,remember…
Original author: 1952 KID
If you get a top ,remember hold it with the point up,then throw it at an angle to the floor.Check you tube for how to throw a top.I think everyone remembers how to use a yo yo!
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Queens,Bellerose,glen oaks,PS186…
Original author: 1952 KID
Queens,Bellerose,glen oaks,PS186 1950’S 1960’S.Finding lost balls after the park closes.We had Creedmore Farm on the side of our school park.I would climb the really high fence,and enter the farm to get all the lost balls.A big great dane dog was allways at the old farm house,so you had to be fast and fill your pockets with balls,which would pop out as you climbed back over.Why didnt i just throw a bunch over the fence?We where allways worried someone from CREEDMORE HOSPITOL escaped and was loose in the farm.
PS 186 bellerose,glen oaks,…
Original author: 1952 KID
PS 186 bellerose,glen oaks, queens 1950’s 1960’s.We played it behind a small brick school park building.Only enough room for two players.Thats the only way i played,one on one,a very fast game,one side of your sneakers allways wore out.And scrapping you fingers on the cement didnt help.The big kids had the little black hand ball,rock hard,with a glove,that was what every kid wanted,that ‘BOSS’ hand ball and special handball glove.And a ten speed bike too!
That calling out,reminds…
Original author: 1952 KID
That calling out,reminds me about another term,after school we would say to a friend “ILL CALL FOR YA”. Anyone else remember this. QUEENS,BELLROSE,AND GLEN OAKS,1950’S AND 1960’S
I “FOUND” my first bike,in…
Original author: 1952 KID
I “FOUND” my first bike,in a storage basement in Grand central apartments in Bellerose,Queens.A old 28″ balloon tire bike,it was the biggest bike i ever saw! I had to mount it from the stoop,and use my tippy toes to peddle it. I was 7 or 8 then,we were to poor to have our own bikes back then. My brother rode it to the library on Union Tpke,and it was stolen.I still tell the story to my kids,now late twenties,the story about the biggest bike in the world. 1953-1964 QUEENS NY.
trying to remember the other…
Original author: frank fletcher jr. (afgan01) [e-mail]
trying to remember the other toys we had in the 70’s……..mostly we made or found things to play with. no $ to buy too much stuff
i was really into them for…
Original author: frank fletcher jr. (afgan01) [e-mail]
i was really into them for a while as a kid then once spawn figures came out i got into it again. my wife won’t let me open any of them in case they’re worth something someday. i have spawn, star wars mostly now. as a kid it was G I Joe, and a few marvel super heroes i e hulk, the thing etc. wish i still had those from childhood.
hahahaha…..i remember trying…
Original author: frank fletcher jr. (afgan01) [e-mail]
hahahaha…..i remember trying that. no recycling of old matresses in our neighborhood.
talking about those 2 large…
Original author: frank fletcher jr. (afgan01) [e-mail]
talking about those 2 large marble looking things on a string that you swung and clanged together? i think we called them klackers or something like that.
Anyone remember Louie’s on…
Original author: andrew [e-mail]
Anyone remember Louie’s on Nostrand Avenue,near Glenwood Road, close to the Junction? The library was nearby and a fur place … what the hell was it’s name — Mitchell’s??? Louie and his wife, Bea, worked their butts off in a hard business, literally working for pennies and putting up with bratty kids like us. Thanks to Milky Ways,Three Musketeers and too many egg creams, I put on mucho weight. Best wishes to the crowd from Vanderveer Estates.