How about Charlie the Ice Cream independent who traveled around the Sheepshead Bay High School area. He was realy dapper with his white uniform handlebar mustache and he even gave you a chance to win free ice cream with his bubblegum dispenser. But only if you got the yellow multicolored gum. Alan Karlin 2450 Haring Street
I had a blue banana seat bike with glitter tassles and a white flowered basket on the handle bars. God did I love that bike! The banana seat was blue with white along its edge. I used to ride with no hands all the time(for some reason I can’t do that anymore on my moutain bike)….holding onto the upside-down u shaped metal bar that the seat was attached to and leaning waaaaay back. Sometimes I would hang a little licence plate back there. Remember the ones that you could get out of cereal boxes??! That bar also made it easier for your passenger to hold on. It’s hard as heck to do that now that’s for sure! Banana seat bikes were the low riders of the bicycle world. You could trick them out in all sorts of ways. Tassles, a basket between the handlebars, playing cards in the spokes, rear-view mirrors, bells, horns, etc. They were the greatest! I’ve seen that they’ve made a little comeback in some communities out west. But sadly, not here on the east coast. *Sigh*
Being born in the 1970 I was blessed to have enjoyed BOTH Metal skates (and yes! I remember having to drag that lose skate over to a bench so I could redo it!) and white boot, orange rubber wheeled ones. I also remember the sneaker skates! I thought those were the coolest! I got stuck with the white, blister causing boots. And you couldn’t have any scuffs on those white boots….Noooooo! As soon as they got scuffed, you busted out the white liquid shoe polish! I polished mine so much that I rubbed off the foam applicator tip on the liquid polish bottle. 🙂 I have a friend who sill has her brown suede skates. She used to show them off but rarely skated with them lest she mess them up. Waste of money if you ask me…. I got some rollerblades a couple of years back. But because I learned to skate on 4 wheels with the stopper at the toe, I have soooo much trouble stopping it’s not funny!!!
Hey, isn’t anybody from Philly?! How about Tarken playground in Oxford Circle? And Solly Avenue? Tarken had the first “twisty slide–” and that’s where I got my first taste of pizza off a truck. It was so great– when Little League games were going on, the trucks would line up along the fence: Mr. Softee, pizza, water ice…. Speaking of which, does anyone remember The Whip (Hint: You rode it, not ate it!)?
Most definitely! I spent many hours galloping around our neighborhood (Bell’s Corner in NE Philly) on an imaginary horse. Asked the kids at camp to call me Bobbie. Loved baseball– biggest insult from Daddy was to be told you pitched like a girl. Did the baseball card thing– including attaching them to the spokes of my bike for a motocycle sound. I’m still not very “girlie–” always the first to volunteer to play any kind of baseball game at the kids’ school or from work or at family b-b-qs.
i think pogo sticking is special.all the pepole hwo ever set foot on a pogo is even more special. most parents or adults see sports as win!win!win!but this sport is so laid back,sense there isnt contests yet,every trick from 1 hander to misty is special!like when i pogo,my parents think its a waste of time.no winning,no money,no stars,but every one hwo masters even 3 bouncecs is a star!now,i see it as base ball,you hit a ball and run in a circle,statiges,plays,mean coaches,but pogoing,is just fun!fun!fun!fun!so get a pogo.
hello.im here to talk about a roller blade related topic…roller skate-roller blade-soaps,no im not a soaps spoke person,haha!i were soaps,know how rollerbladers grind?these shoes magically grind!its the sport of free style walking! if your bored,go to your nearest flight off steps,run,jump off and flip,spin or do a grab example-both feet bent back touching butt,both hands grabbin feet ben head back to perform a suicide!do this sport!its fuunnn!!