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P.S.114 in Canarsie was…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 19, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
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P.S.114 in Canarsie was the place to go for a game of stickball, handball, football, basketball, skulley, Johnny on the Pony, Marbles, Knock Hockey, Punchball, Pitching nickels against the wall or the line, ringalevio, war, slapball and softball just to name a few. There was even some weird guy from Czeckloslavokia who used to hit a soccer[?] ball off his head, {what a strange boring game} but we could never get the ball from him. Glory Days! Mousey

Posted in Brooklyn, Johnny on the Pony, Locales, Playgrounds, Punchball, Stickball | Tagged Canarsie

I also had to ride a boy’s…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 19, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsApril 19, 1999
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I also had to ride a boy’s bike and swing my leg, but the worst thing I remember is riding on the back of my brother’s bike, with him in front, going down this really high hill through this huge puddle I mean I don’t think I would call it a puddle, but a minnie lake and he is going so fast and I am screaming in his ear and he is yelling back and we loose control in the middle of this water and both of us come out with bloody legs.

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I still rue the day that…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 19, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
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I still rue the day that Good Humor discontinued my favorite bar: It was called “Chocolate Cake” — it had chocolate ice cream inside, and the outside was…well, it was sort of like dark chocolate cake! This was also in the “old days”, before they had that “candy in the middle.” Good Humor also made a seasonal special: A red white & blue icecream bar for the 4th of July — it had raspberry, vanilla and blueberry, and it was good! I never heard of Mr. Frostee, but of course we had Mister Softee… and we STILL have Mister Softee: In my current neighborhood, Chelsea/Flatiron, they’re all over, as well as on every other corner in midtown. Hmm… think I’ll run downstairs and get a chocolate shake. Wasn’t there also an icecream truck called “Pied Piper”? This would have been in Long Island, circa 1957-1963. For WEBDIVA: You mentioned the selter bottles, in blue. They also came in green. There was a company a few years ago called “GIMME SELTZER,” and yes, as in days gone by, they delivered seltzer by the case, in those wonderful original blue or green syphon bottles. I just looked in the Manhattan phone book and there is NO listing… uh-oh, did they go out of business?? I will investigate further and see if I can find them.

Posted in Food & Drink, Manhattan, Reader Stories

Like many things within…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 18, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsApril 18, 1999
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Like many things within families, bikes were handed down as kids outgrew them. In my family that meant that I, the girl, got my cousin’s and brother’s boy’s bikes. You know, the ones with that middle bar. To this day, at the age of 48, I still swing my leg even though I finally have a girl’s bike! I sure wish that I could put those multicolored streamers at the ends of the handlebars!!

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Out on LI, just off Hempstead…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 18, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
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Out on LI, just off Hempstead Turnpike in W. Hempstead, there was a long red brick supermarket wall, and concrete paving all the way to the street. This became known as “The Office.” Games of ‘Chinese’ Handball went on all day long in the late 50s and early 60s. Chinese handball was played in a ‘court’ usually two pavers square and was distinguished by one rule: You had to bounce the ball once before it hit the wall. “The Office” was well equipped: Across the street was “Three Finger Jack” McGinn’s candy store, and there was a staircase next to the handball wall where you could climb down and have more ‘private’ conversation, or hide if your mom came looking for you and your cigarette-smoking hooligan friends.

Posted in Ace King Queen, Food & Drink, Other Spaldeen games | Tagged candy store, Chinese handball

I feel a cavity just thinking…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 17, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
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I feel a cavity just thinking about this junk! Anyone remember that Looong, wide, colored Water Taffy? It stretched on and on ….

Posted in Food & Drink, Reader Stories

The Actual verse went like…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 17, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
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The Actual verse went like this: Bang Bang LuLu She’s the girl for me Who’s going to Bang Bang LuLu When I go out to sea Lulu had a boyfriend His name was Diamond Dick She never saw a Diamond She always saw his So who’s going to Bang Bang LuLu When I go out to sea LuLu had a Bicycle It’s seat was made of glass Every time she hit a bump The seat went up her Oh well, Might as well get it right.. Am still LMAO on how I confused the two

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Lucy Had A Boyfriend His…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 16, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
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Lucy Had A Boyfriend His name was Diamond Dick She never saw the Diamond She always saw his ???? or Lucy had a Bicycle It seat was made of glass Every time she hit a bump The seat went up her ??? Oh well, there were a few more but I can’t remember them.. I know.. Thats good.. 🙂

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The BEST schoolyard in Queens…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 14, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsMay 9, 2019
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The BEST schoolyard in Queens in the late ’60s – early ’70s was PS 108 by the entrance to the Aqueduct racetrack. It was relatively square, fenced all around and had poured cement “boxes” roughly 5′ x 5′. These boxes served as softball basepaths, football yardlines, stickball pitchers’ mounds, handball court short lines, and distance markers for stickball and automatics. Connected to the large square area, there was a perfect sized handball court and wall, and the “little schoolyard” – a blacktopped area surrounded by 3 walls and a fence, perfect for roller hockey. Any afternoon in the summer there could be a softball game (sometimes two), a basketball game, 3 stickball games and a handball game going on at once. Summer nights was Ringoleario and just hanging out. In the fall and winter, it was touch football and basketball. Everyone met at the schoolyard. Just show up and you’ll get in some kind of game. We’ll never forget it.

Posted in Hanging Out, Playgrounds, Queens, Stickball | Tagged Summer

Hula hoops were another…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 14, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 13, 2014
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Hula hoops were another game us girls used to play. I doubt if I could go one “round-a-bout” today, but, waaaaay back then, I could shimmy that hoop round my hips many times … I think I even had a PINK hoop!!! 🙂

Posted in Hula hoops & pogo sticks, Toys | Tagged Hula Hoops

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