Nostalgia – WPC


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Kids in Brooklyn

Playing  out in the streets

Games of a bygone era

kick-the-can-ridge-st-les-1947 Kick the can

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A “Spaldeen”

High bounce ball

Endless games to play

 

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Stick ball

Where manhole covers are bases

circles

Large circles chalked on the payment

For I Declare War On

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Sidewalk handball

 

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Hand ball on brick walls

 

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Stoop ball on my uncle’s front steps

Memories half  buried

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Like marbles in the dirt

7 thoughts on “Nostalgia – WPC

    1. Thanks, sometime you get an idea in your head and then you have to figure out to make it happen. None of these games have ever been played here in NH. Here the streets are lined with basketball hoops. Thanks

    1. It is amazing how much the world has changed since we were kids, I can remember my first crystal radio, watching TV on a round picture tube and stations going off the air at midnight

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