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I’m 56 years old and grew…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on February 1, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
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I’m 56 years old and grew up in South Philly.Does anyone remember playing “Dead Box” with bottle caps(beeries). The field of play was the street (little street) or schoolyard where the blocks were numbered 1 to 15 in chalk. If you landed in the box where a skull was drawn you lost 3 turns(I think).After going through the boxes in sequence…someone was always trying to knock your beerie down the street, you had to go in the dead box three times. You shined your beerie on the curb to make it slide better.

Posted in Locales, Other Spaldeen games, Philadelphia | Tagged deadbox, Does anyone remember..., South Philadelphia

In Philly we called it Deadbox….

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 28, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 14, 2014
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In Philly we called it Deadbox. Didn’t have the #13 in the middle, but it sounds like the same game.

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In Philly it was called…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 16, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 14, 2014
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In Philly it was called Deadbox, the only rules were you had to wear your best shoes and new pants. This way you were sure to get your mom extra upset. I loved to hear thoses words “Wait until your father comes home”

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Loved it! Played 35 yrs…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on May 18, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 14, 2014
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Loved it! Played 35 yrs ago in South Philly. We called it “Dead Box” At one point I painted a “court” on our basement floor for winter and rainy days. Caps were also filled with clay or play-doe. No computers then!

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I just heard about skully…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 5, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 14, 2014
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I just heard about skully for the first time about a week ago talking to a guy who grew up in Brooklyn. In Philly we called it deadbox. I imagine it’s pretty much the same game with boxes 1 to 12 and the deadbox, always decorated with a skull and crossbones. It’s way funny how all the games were similar like buck-buck instead of Johnie on the Pony or whatever…but damn it they were all fun. Kids today don’t know how to play and how good clean and sometimes physical fun. whatever….

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