Street game bottlecaps

The game was played by flicking bottle caps into the numbered squares. I normally played with a friend of mine each Saturday morning. We had the street to ourselves. The surface was asphalt.

It had to be smoothes for the bottle caps to slide properly. The center box was called the skullsies or skull, the dead zone. Players took turns shooting their bottle caps, eliminating opponents by hitting their caps out of the boxes. You had to progress one numbered box at a time by landing your cap inside the box.

Then you had to reverse - that is - go back to each numbered square till you reached one again! Many kids melted crayons or wax and filled their caps to give them more weight and better firepower when flicked.?

Note her posture. She also has the typical grip on the bottle cap. Her fingers are in the same position as one might prepare to? Some people prefer to hold the cap so that the overhang is inside nearest the face while others prefer to hold the cap so that the overhang is outside away from the face. That might explain why he's best known as Philadelphia's chief neon preservationist, the long-suffering champion of a museum that, after decades of work, flickered into existence in pop-up form last year.

So no wonder, then, that one of his current obsessions is reviving the nearly extinct game of deadbox — an overly complicated pastime involving the tossing of bottle caps onto a chalked grid in a particular order, or, in Davidson's vision, on a vinyl game board rolled out in homes and driveways across the region. It's a quixotic vision, this deadbox revival.

But it speaks to something baked deep into this city's social history: Anytime you mention one of these games in the company of Philadelphians of a certain age, they're liable to wax nostalgic. They know about the Mummers Parade or the light show at Wanamakers. But the day-to-day community in Philadelphia evolved around street games and hanging out on rowhouse streets.

An attempt to understand this long-lost arcana took us down back alleys and side streets from West Oak Lane to South Philadelphia, testing the credulity with ridiculous names like "tinny tinny tin can" and "buck buck" and "kick the wickey" and the patience with rules too complicated and varied to explain here we won't even try. Some of the people we surveyed told us stories too racy to print you know who you are. Some told us things that probably aren't true.

Almost everyone mourned that the last generation that remembers these games is getting nearly too old to play them. We've lost that for many reasons — the internet, the architecture of houses with garages, roof decks, air-conditioning — all of these things lessen the incentive for going outside. On a recent weekend on a blacktop in Mayfair, a group of old-heads marked what was likely the last half-ball tournament of the year.

It's a game created to make use of balls that have split in half — infuriatingly unpredictable targets as they float toward a batter — and just one of many classic Philly sports played with what is, in essence, trash.

There's kick the can; stickball, played with deconstructed brooms instead of baseball bats; and hoseball, made with segments of garden hose. But when you hit that hose it really flew," said Larry Rubin, 77, who grew up in Oxford Circle. Scully was a street game we played in New York City during the seventies. The board pictured here varied greatly in dimensions but was roughly feet by feet. It was painted or chalked in on concrete and played with bottlecaps or other round items one could flick with their finger.

The object of the game was simple. To go from the starting line usually located outside of the box to each of the numbered boxes sequentially up to 13 and then back down to box 1 by moving your cap with a flick of your finger.

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