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True story; looked down a…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on January 25, 2009 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 13, 2014
Original author: 1952 KID
 

True story; looked down a sewer in queens for spaldeens,the water was jet black,i saw things moving,it was goldfish with there mouths gulping for air. Ill never forget that contrast of the black water and orange heads popping out.

Posted in Queens, Reader Stories, Street Lifestyle | Tagged sewer fishing

I grew up in the Port Richmond…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on August 30, 2007 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
Original author: mickey [e-mail]
 

I grew up in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia and we would lower the liitlest guy by his feet to scoop up all the pimple balls. Took great courage and faith in those at the ankles to come back up with a coupla’ balls we could cut in half to play Halfsies. I guess our sewers weren’t as deep as yours; about 5 feet to the water line. Well we were close to the Delaware River too!

Posted in Reader Stories, Street Lifestyle | Tagged I grew up..., pimple ball, sewer fishing, spaldeen types

I grew up in Brooklyn on…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 9, 2005 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
Original author: ro
 

I grew up in Brooklyn on McDonald Ave. The F train ran in front of my house. To get change (or the key you dropped) from the gratings, we would use something like a small lock (for weight) and some bubblegum (the kind with Bazooka Joe). This worked pretty well-that gum was sticky.

Posted in Brooklyn, Reader Stories, Street Lifestyle | Tagged I grew up..., sewer fishing

We used to fish the lost…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on December 22, 2003 by Streetplay DiscussionsFebruary 16, 2019
Original author: Pennsylmaniac
 

We used to fish the lost spauldeens out of the sewers in astoria projects where I grew up by fashioning a metal coat hanger with a little loop at the bottom enough to lift the ball out of the muck. Someone called “chips” on the ball, 15 cents was couple days of bottle hunting…Yuk…here’s your ball kid.

Posted in Locales, Queens, Reader Stories, Street Lifestyle | Tagged "The Projects", Astoria, chips on the ball, I grew up..., sewer fishing

I lived on Steinway St in…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 5, 2001 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
Original author: Anonymous
 

I lived on Steinway St in Astoria and we went fishing too. Since it was a busy street we had meters and boy that was good for fishing. People were constantly dropping coins down the gratings. It was like hitting lotto when you got 25 cents. After all look what it could buy.

Posted in Locales, Queens, Reader Stories, Street Lifestyle | Tagged Astoria, sewer fishing

I went down one of those…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on February 22, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 13, 2014
Original author: denise [e-mail]
 

I went down one of those infamous ladders of an opened grate – growing up in Brooklyn, I was trying to get my Spaldeen. A huge “Ben” clone sewer rat was on his way up. Needless to say I gave the monster the right-of-way and haven’t touched a grating since.

Posted in Brooklyn, Reader Stories, Street Lifestyle | Tagged sewer fishing

theres always a ladder in…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on February 9, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 13, 2014
Original author: Anonymous
 

theres always a ladder in one area of each section.. when theres two of us we could just pull up the grate and climb down the ladder…. should scope first though……..

Posted in Reader Stories, Street Lifestyle | Tagged sewer fishing

I grew up on 4th Avenue…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on September 20, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
Original author: John Fornasar [e-mail]
 

I grew up on 4th Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The R Train (4th Avenue Local -The “RR” or Ridge Runner back then) traveled the length of 4th Avenue to 95th Street. Every other block had subway ventilation grates (known as the “subway gratings”) on the sidewalk near the curb. People would drop coins and other “stuff” down there. To get them out, you assembled a “fishing” kit: A 3 ounce lead fishing sinker A ball of string (kite string was good) A jar of Vaseline Take the lead sinker, and scrape and smash the pointed bottom on the sidewalk until it is flattened. Our string used to be wrapped around a small stick. Tie the string on the sinker, and dab Vaseline on the flattened end of it. Walk along the gratings until you see a coin. Lower the sinker, and moving carefully, hover just above the coin. When the sinker steadies, drop it on the coin. (Here you have to be careful… if you miss, the sinker will hit the bottom of the air shaft and the Vaseline gets full of dirt and loses its stickiness). After “catching” the coin, pull it up slowly… if you go too fast, the coin will fall off. Many times you would get a coin all the way to the top, but when maneuvering the sinker and coin through the grating, it would hit the side and the coin would fall off. There always seemed to be lots of coins nearer to Bay Ridge Avenue (69th Street). The local lore had it that people rushing for the train would drop their change.

Posted in Brooklyn, Reader Stories, Street Lifestyle | Tagged I grew up..., sewer fishing

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