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I agree. I grew up on the…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on August 2, 2005 by Streetplay DiscussionsMarch 25, 2016
Original author: Charles Holt [e-mail]
 

I agree. I grew up on the Carlton Ave side of Ft. Greene. There was truly a sense of family Skelzies,punchball,co-co-levio,rollerskating were some of the regular games. On our side we had the Willoughby Center, were we shot pool, played ping-ping, and spades till 11:00 at night

Posted in Brooklyn, Locales, Punchball, Skully | Tagged Fort Greene projects, I grew up..., Willoughby Avenue

Sonie Jaffe’s candy store…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on July 7, 2004 by Streetplay DiscussionsMarch 25, 2016
Original author: Catherine McHugh [e-mail]
 

Sonie Jaffe’s candy store on the corner of Willoughby and ? (Bed/Stuy).

Posted in Food & Drink, Locales | Tagged candy store, Willoughby Avenue

Hey Big Daddy, I…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 16, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsMarch 25, 2016
Original author: Ed Almodovar [e-mail]
 

Hey Big Daddy, I absolutely remember triangle baseball. I lived in the bed-stuy section of Brooklyn. We used to play on Pulaski St. Between Stuyvesant Ave and Willoughby. It was a one-way street where we played most of our neighborhood games and we played them all. Stickball, chinese handball, fast pitch stickball with automatics, off-the-point, stoopball, boxball, ringalievio, hide-and-seek, kick-the-can, johnny on the pony, skelleys, marbles. All these games were great but I haven’t heard anybody mention – Spinning Tops – a wooden top (shaped like a hot air ballon) with a metal point on the bottom and we would wrap a string around the it then throw the top on the asphalt making it spin. We would play games like crack-the-top. This game was played by two or more players and the object was to shoot your top at the top on the ground in an attempt to crack it.You would choose to see whose top would be layed on the ground. Then taking one turn at a time each player would spin his top attempting to hit the top on the ground. If you didn’t hit it in one shot you could pick up the top in your hand while it was spinning and throw against the top on the ground then you would get another chance.If in your turn, you couldn’t hit the object top then you would have to lay your top down to be the target top. –Making wooden carpet guns–. The easy way to make one was with a piece of 1×4 or anything similar about three feet in length. Then we would attach a thick rubber band to the front with a nail. Toward the back part of the gun on the top edge, we would then attach a clothes pin with one leg cut off using a few rubber bands to hold it in place.This would act as the trigger. We would then cut little squares from a section of linoleoum flooring to use as ammo. We would then pull back the front rubber band holding it in place under the clothes pin. We would insert a piece of ammo between the the two legs of the rubber band and to shoot the ammo we would press down on the leg of the clothes pin thereby releasing the ammo. How about –Scooters–, made out of a wooden box a two by four and a one skate. We would decorate the box with bottle caps, paint and anything we could think of. I live in Florida now and we have a group of about 20 to 30 ex New Yorkers. Every year we have an annual xmas picnic. At the picnic we have a fathers against sons stickball game and we play a serious game of skelleys. Those were the best days of my life and if had it all to do over again, I wouldn’t change one thing from my childhood days growing up on the streets of the big city. By the way if someone knows where I can find some Spalding HI-Bouncers if they still exist please post the info on this site.

Posted in Ace King Queen, Boxball, Brooklyn, Johnny on the Pony, Other Spaldeen games, Stickball, Stoopball | Tagged Chinese handball, Willoughby Avenue

HELLO DARE!!!!!!!!!! I have…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on September 12, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsMarch 25, 2016
Original author: Big Richie B [e-mail]
 

HELLO DARE!!!!!!!!!! I have tried every website,every class reunion thing, everything and have come to the conclusion that the people on our block are too stupid or too cheap to use a PC or maybe even dead ’cause none of them have ever shown up anywhere! We should have lived in Flatbush or Ridgewood but not on Willoughby Ave. Big Richie B.

Posted in Brooklyn, Locales | Tagged Willoughby Avenue

Anyone remember St. Johns…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on May 28, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsMarch 25, 2016
Original author: emily [e-mail]
 

Anyone remember St. Johns Teacher college, and Cary Field? How about Johnny on the pony with the guys, Frank C., Joe W., Stanley C. and all the Willoughby Ave. gang. How about Big Richie B.?

Posted in Brooklyn, Johnny on the Pony, Locales | Tagged gangs, Willoughby Avenue

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