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Ginny dolls, Tiny Tears,…

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Ginny dolls, Tiny Tears, Barbies, Chatty Cathy! Paper dolls – YES! The Betsy McCall ones that would show up in McCalls magazine every month. Movie stars – Janet Leigh, Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds. Girls – modern & old-fashioned. After a while, I drew & made my own – loved coloring in the clothes with colored pencils (before felt-tipped markers appeared on the scene). Made the dolls out of oak tag so they’d last – even made stands for them!

Okay, couldn’t sleep tonight,…

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Okay, couldn’t sleep tonight, my mind racing on the many games I loved playing in my youth in Deepdale (Little Neck) Queens in the 1950’s-early 60’s. Want to document some of these for my grandkids, who probably won’t know a street game from a milk machine (‘member those, anyone?). Thrilled to find this website – way to GO! …So, the girls in my “court” (WWII veterans’ garden apartments, with sections built around a central grass area, all over Queens, especially Glen Oaks & Little Neck) loved both Spauldeens AND Pensie Pinkies. I remember at one time each costing about a quarter at our local candy store. And fishing them out of the sewers could be a whole day’s frustrating & exhilirating challenge – mainly with unbent hangers, made into a fishing circle at one end. Anyone remember a game played by throwing the ball high against a brick wall, and doing a variety of activities before catching it? Like 1 = clap one time; 4 = 4 jumping jacks, etc? Can’t remember what it was called – maybe Russian ______????

Now;do you remember the…

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Now;do you remember the lead bottom can you had to scrath off before you could pick up the johnny pump water,Chaulk was a given,to be used on sidewalks or placed in an old sock to hit somebody with.(now)this is all illegal—————Roof top tag many a friend died missing that roof,Parachuting across the tops of elevators in buildings,hitching a ride on the back of a city bus with iron roller skates,Tree tag only in the trees not on the ground,OH-BOY thank the Lord we are all alive. Danny Boy

Mr. Fletcher – Thank…

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Mr. Fletcher – Thank you for the comliment. Keep in my I’m the “baby” of the Channels at 42 yrs old. This year marks my 10th year with the Channels. You may want to visit these other DooWop message boards: http://groups.msn.com/DooWopCorner http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/doowopcafe/ Regards, Joe – http://mypages.netopia.com/channels

joe, thanks for the…

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joe, thanks for the quick reply…..listened to some of your music….WOW!……i’m pretty new to doo-wop and have only a small collection…..usually i go into the doo wop chatrooms on paltalk.com and listen……i’m gonna have to look up some info on you guys and learn more…..btw i listened to “that’s my desire” and “the closer you are”….best of luck in the new year. frank

grew up in jersey city,…

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grew up in jersey city, NJ during the 70’s…..one weapon i learned to use was the “dirt bomb”……balled up a wad of dirt in to a tight ball and throw it….those dirt bomb fights were fun until my friend shelton hit me in the chest one day and yelled out “WIN-CHEST-ER”!!!i was wearing a brown windbreaker as i recall and it stung by boney little chest and i though it’d cave in………………wonder if i can find shelton (back turned, preferably)

I remember summers in my…

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I remember summers in my neighborhood and how we couldn’t wait for school to get out so we could spend all our time at the park! The park on the conduit in South Ozone Park was our place! Boy we really had fun there! We did everything there, we played handball until the wee hours of the morning when we were teenagers, we could sit on the benches and play chess or checkers on those tables that had the boards set right in them, I thought that was the coolest thing, you didn’t need to bring anything to the park just your bike and friends! I now live in Arizona and have lived in Utah for years and the first time I saw a park in Utah I thought how strange it was that there were no parks like we had and I felt sad that the kids were missing alot of fun! I long for those hot summer days sometimes when life was easier and all that concerned us was a good Pensy-Pinkie or spalding and if we could get to the park before the big guys so we could get a court.I loved growing up in New York and wouldn’t trade it for the world!