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I was a mix of Tomboy and…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on October 24, 2007 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 14, 2014
Original author: pamela cartagena
 

I was a mix of Tomboy and girlie, I loved basketball, went shoeshining with my cousin. played Scully’s, cracktop, baseball , you name it ,but at the same time i loved my dolls, and i loved boys and had a lot of boyfriends. I was a lil bit of cagney and a lil of lacey. I never outgrew doing the guys stuff I love homedepot and i love refurnishing stuff i find in fleamarkets and then selling them. But growing up i guess being a tomboy kept me out of trouble.

Posted in Girl games, Street Lifestyle, Toys | Tagged cracktop, tomboy, tops and yo-yos

the doll that walked with…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 15, 2007 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
Original author: PC [e-mail]
 

the doll that walked with you was Patty Play Doll All time favorite original Tiny Tears….

Posted in Girl games, Toys | Tagged dolls & cutouts

I had a Shirley Temple doll,…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 15, 2007 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
Original author: jackie rohrs [e-mail]
 

I had a Shirley Temple doll, she came with a few outfits and was about 12″ tall. I wanted her for Christmas so bad. I remember how carefully I combed and restyled her curly hair.

Posted in Girl games, Toys | Tagged dolls & cutouts

As a kid my big thing was…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 4, 2006 by Streetplay DiscussionsMay 9, 2019
Original author: jzero [e-mail]
 

As a kid my big thing was horror. I drew horror comics, hung horror posters in my room, and collected an impressive assortment of horror related toys. I made my own super-8 movies about axe murderers, the dead coming back to life and aliens in miniature spaceships who could render you horribly deformed with a blast of their ray guns. My notebooks were filled with drawings of freaks, multi-limbed oddities and all sorts of straight-jacketed loonies. I wasn’t just a ghoulish kid, mind you – as this was juxtoposed against my other interests of a more joyful nature such as The Beatles, The Marx Bros, super heros and the like. But if I spotted anything creepy or strange in my neighborhood candy and magazine store, my eyes would instantly light up and I would start digging in my pockets to see if I could afford it. An old after school haunt of mine was a small candy shop in Queens Village known only as “Helen’s”. I used to go there to get my “Wacky Packages” bubble gum cards. It was run by a cantankerous old woman who was suspicious of just about any kid she didn’t know who would wander in for an egg cream or a comic book. Even though I had been there hundreds of times I was usually rushed to make my purchase and get out, along with the rest of them – but she always had these dusty old model kits in the back of her store which I’d always gravitate to. The old Universal Monsters of yesteryear were Gods in my eyes… and I eagerly assembled and painted my horror model kits with the care and detail of a fine surgeon. I had ’em all… Frankenstein, The Werewolf, The Phantom of the Opera, Dracula, Godzilla and King Kong. These kits came with alternate glow in the dark heads and hands… which I always thought was pretty damn cool. I also collected the lesser known, but even more intriguing Aurora Monster Scenes kits which included Doctor Deadly, The Hanging Cage, The Pendulum and the beautiful Vampirella, also with interchangable arms and legs. Also available was “the victim”, a plastic model kit of a scantly clad woman in hot pants and a torn blouse, that I’d assumed, was intended for the hanging cage. Today, of course, in our politically correct environment – you’d NEVER see toys like this again! One of Queens Village’s best kept secrets was the basement of Stevens department store on Hillside Avenue (now long gone) where, similiar to Helen’s, also seemed to have it’s share of creepy, long forgotten toys. Sort of the land of Misfit toys, I’d say! It was there my older brother bought me one of the creepiest toys I still own today – a ventriloquist doll made by the old Juro company, famous for it’s Jerry Mahoney knock-offs. With his unblinking stare and wearing his dapper little red suit – he was the sort of toy you couldn’t tear your eyes from – yet he was petrifying. It was the same sort of ventriloquist dummy you’d see coming to life in those old, black n’ white Twilight Zone episodes. He must’ve felt right at home sitting up there on my shelf, alongside my other toys of horror. Alas, the great monsters of yesterday have all but dissappeared. Even a trip to Universal Studios last summer left me gravely dissapointed (excuse the pun!) as the store where I had previously bought my wolfman head drinking cup, my animated battery-operated Frankenstein and my Dracula doll – was sadly monster deprived. The nearest thing to a ghoul were their plush mummy figures from the recent Brendan Fraser movies – almost as cute and cuddly as their Shrek dolls. Not the same thing, I’m afraid. Today, these horror model kits sell for big bucks on eBay, and those old ventriloquist dummies can fetch anything up to $300-500 bucks a piece. During my earliest introduction to the internet auction scene I ended up being reunited with many of my childhood “friends” once again – and more recently I was thrilled to meet and talk to some other ghoulish icons from my past at the Big Apple Comic Con this April, the alluring Elvira – Mistress of the Dark, and George Romero, the legendary director of “Night Of The Living Dead”. I was in monster heaven. Once a ghoul enthusiast, always a ghoul enthusiast.

Posted in Ace King Queen, Food & Drink, Johnny on the Pony, Locales, Queens, Toys | Tagged egg cream, Queens Village, Summer

Hey, Loved playing Cracktop…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on October 19, 2005 by Streetplay DiscussionsFebruary 16, 2019
Original author: Frank [e-mail]
 

Hey, Loved playing Cracktop as a kid growing up in the Ravenswood projects on 21 st. and 35 ave. in Astoria It involved the use of small wooden tops. We would get in a circle and spin all of our tops at the same time. The first top to come to a stop on it’s side was the top that was put in the middle of our circle. Then each of us in turn would try to “Crack” the top in the middle by hitting it with our top as hard as we could as we threw it to spin it. If you hit the top in the middle on your throw and your top kept spinning, you were good till next turn. If you hit the top or missed and your top did not spin, it was your turn in the middle. But if you missed the top in the middle, as your top was spinning you could pick it up in the palm of your hand ( the top had to remain spinning all the while ) and drop it on the top in the middle, if yours kept spinning after that, you were good to go. We had hours of fun playing this game and we became quite adept at hitting and even Cracking the tops in the middle. We would show off the Paint of other tops that would rub off on ours after hitting them. We also had a name for hitting the top in the middle. I have no freakin idea where it came from, but we called it a ” Kosky ” LOL I have no clue what that means, but when we hit the top in the middle it was called a Kosky! Hope this brings back some good memories, it does for me.

Posted in Locales, Other Games, Queens, Toys | Tagged "The Projects", Astoria, cracktop, Ravenswood, tops and yo-yos

Oh yeah Frank. Two table…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on May 3, 2005 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 13, 2014
Original author: Eric Vaughan [e-mail]
 

Oh yeah Frank. Two table legs, drill out the narrow end(and by drill, I mean use our parents’ good steak knife to whittle away at the wood..), and use a screw or nail to hold in the 4″ of dog chain we’d use to make the nunchucks. Bruce Lee heaven, until you missed a spin and hit your chin or elbow. I loved the dirt bomb fight. Clumps of clod that when they hit the ground gave off the perfect “poof” of cloud to simulate a grenade hit.

Posted in Street Lifestyle, Toys | Tagged weapons of choice

Does anyone remeber those?…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 29, 2005 by Streetplay DiscussionsApril 29, 2005
Original author: ladibug
 

Does anyone remeber those? I think they came out late 70’s or early 80’s. I remember getting kbanged!*!*!*! and knocked !&*(*#(*@&(*! while trying to learn how to do them!

Posted in Toys | Tagged Clackers

My sister had the Sparkle…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on March 28, 2005 by Streetplay DiscussionsMarch 28, 2005
Original author: Pat Harris (westsidegirl) [e-mail]
 

My sister had the Sparkle Plenty doll. Sparkle was the daughter of B.O. Plenty and Gravel Gertie (characters from Dick Tracy). She was beautiful with long, blonde hair. Thanks for sharing, I hadn’t thought of that doll for many years.

Posted in Toys | Tagged 1940s toys

Ginny dolls, Tiny Tears,…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on February 5, 2005 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
Original author: sandy2wheels
 

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!

Posted in Girl games, Toys | Tagged dolls & cutouts

forgot to mention…..anyone…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on January 4, 2005 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 13, 2014
Original author: frank fletcher jr. [e-mail]
 

forgot to mention…..anyone here ever make a pair of nunchuks? 2 sticks connected to a length of chain? rope? etc….we thought we were Bruce Lee…until we’d pop ourselves in the head while trying to use them……heeeeeYaaaaahhh!!(ouch)

Posted in Street Lifestyle, Toys | Tagged weapons of choice

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