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Tag Archives: Woodside

I grew up in Bellerose/Glen…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on February 19, 2009 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
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I grew up in Bellerose/Glen Oaks apartments,P.S.186 Castlewood,and M.S.172. 1953-1965. Grand Central Apartments. in those years,its now called Parkwood Estates.ANYONE LIVE THERE BACK THEN???????

Posted in Locales, Queens | Tagged I grew up..., Woodside

does anyone remember burn…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on November 10, 2008 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
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does anyone remember burn ball? the object of the game was to take the ball and try to hit whoever was closest to you. I played this in Woodside Queens

Posted in Locales, Other Spaldeen games, Queens | Tagged Does anyone remember..., Woodside

I grew up in Woodside Queens…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on September 14, 2008 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
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I grew up in Woodside Queens in the 60’s and we played a game where a guy would hit a ball with the bat and if you caight it on the fly, you were up. If you didn’t catch it, whoever got the ball would roll it toward the batter (who had to lay his bat on the ground). If you either missed the bat or hit it and the batter caught the ball before it bounced, he hit again. If the batter missed the ball after it hit, you became the hitter. I tried to bring the game to Long Island when we moved to the burbs but it couldn’t compete with baseball fields.

Posted in Locales, Other Games, Queens | Tagged I grew up..., Woodside

I grew up in Woodside, Queens…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on July 28, 2006 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
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I grew up in Woodside, Queens in the seventies and loved Red Rover, Red Rover, Red Light, Green Light, etc. I remember the boys playing stick ball,etc. Being a girl, we did alot of the jumprope games/rhymes, and also more “girlie” steet games. I recall one being called “germany”, where you needed four concrete “squares” and would have to step for “one”, hop for “two”, Skip for “three”, etc. I think it went up to nine, and you couldn’t touch any “lines” and couldn’t step into “germany”, or the third box. Sound familiar to anyone? WE also played “girls, girls, out” This one used six boxes and had different categories in each box like, colors, girls names, boys names, etc. You would have to hop into the box twice saying “girls, girls out”, then go over each box saying a different girl’s name twice, then go into the next category and do boys names, etc. If anyone has more info on these games, please share. Love this website – it’s so nostalgic!

Posted in Clap and Rhyme, Girl games, Jumprope, Locales, Other Spaldeen games, Queens, Stickball | Tagged I grew up..., Woodside

Hi Jenn, I also…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on November 10, 2003 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
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Hi Jenn, I also grew up in Woodside. I graduated from 151 in 1982. I left NY in 1992. Moved to the DC area then, I moved to Indianapolis in 1996. This site’s pretty cool. Denise L

Posted in Locales, Queens | Tagged Woodside

i moved out of the woodside…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on November 12, 2002 by Streetplay DiscussionsFebruary 16, 2019
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i moved out of the woodside projects in 1991. i would like any one that was a kid in the 80’s that lived in or around the woodside projects or went to P S 151 to write. i moved to florida and haven’t kept in touch with anyone.

Posted in Locales, Queens | Tagged "The Projects", Woodside

Played alot of roller hockey,…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on October 1, 2001 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
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Played alot of roller hockey, Richmond Hill area mostly and up in Woodside. Don’t remeber the freeze rule, except when we played in the street and we would yell CAR! and everybody would freeze where they were until the car passed. Then you picked up play from there,unless of course you were on a break away and then the damn car just had to wait!!!

Posted in Locales, Queens | Tagged Avenue J, Woodside

I used to hang out with…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on September 12, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
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I used to hang out with these kids in Woodside. When it was snowy and icy, we wore special clothes for one of our favorite activities “Skitching.” You had to have boots with substantial soles. We had rubberized fabric gloves and glove liners and the gloves were typically bright colors. Kids even had rubber pants. After a really severe snowstorm the cars would have to slow down, and only go at about 20 miles an hour down Queens Blvd. You could hide between parked cars, sneak out in a crouch behind a car when it stopped at a light. Grabbing the bumper, you’d lean back and let the car pull you down the street. We called it skitching because it was a cross between hitching and skiing. Most times the drivers didn’t see you. You could go for blocks. What a ride!

Posted in All Seasons, Locales, Queens | Tagged Winter, Woodside

I grew up in Laurelton,…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on July 5, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsFebruary 16, 2019
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I grew up in Laurelton, Queens-and loved to play Skelly when I lived in the Woodside projects-melting crayons into soda bottle caps was the way to go-my brother always cried when I took the broken crayons to melt into new caps-I remember the scratches I got from the “pleats” on the caps they were the only caps allowed. I recently taught my girl Scout troop of second graders to play-it caught on quickly in the school in Ohio where I live

Posted in Locales, Queens, Skully | Tagged "The Projects", crayons, Girl / Boy / Cub Scouts, I grew up..., Woodside

This is such a coooooool…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 4, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsFebruary 16, 2019
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This is such a coooooool site! I’m not getting any work done! My sister and I used to play skully in the Woodside Housing Projects in Queens in the late 50’s. To this day, the smell of Crayola Crayons brings back floods of memories — both because I used to draw with them, but mostly because of their aroma when melted for my skully shooters! On the radiator — I had forgotten that! Wow…… Jan

Posted in Locales, Queens, Skully | Tagged "The Projects", crayons, Woodside

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