Street Games from your childhood (Philadelphia: backyard, tree, telephone)

[nuts2uiam]

Originally Posted by Mr.Malakalot

I bet you used to kick the can also!

Not as much as the others but, yes we did.

[SandyJet]

johnny on a pony

[SandyJet]

step on a crack break your mothers back
hop scotch
Miss Mary Mack
stoop ball

[NYC2RDU]

Box ball, kind of like tennis but using a Spalding and consecutive squares on a poured concrete path/walkway.

[ANM1982]

Ghost in a Graveyard (in which we insulted the next-door neighbor's mother-in-law, who thought we were yelling at her to "Go back to the graveyard")
Manhunt
Sardines
TV Guide
Cherry Drop
Kickball
Freeze Tag
Red Light, Green Light
Red Rover
Mother, May I
Puss in a Corner
Sick, Sicker, Dying, Dead
Spud

[nuts2uiam]

Originally Posted by SandyJet

step on a crack break your mothers back
hop scotch
Miss Mary Mack
stoop ball

HATED THAT GAME, but do remember them all.

[lubby]

S.P.U.D.
Kickball
catches flies up
running bases
kick the can
Jump rope
mother may I
Red light green light
hot potato
whiffle ball
dodge ball
basket ball
street hockey no skates
water balloon fights
relay races
flag football
Simon says
Ouija board- scared the crap out of me when we played it in a dark garage. (not s a street game I know)

[loribell38]

Remember all the games mentioned. I grew up in Queens not LI. Not sure if anyone did these or remembers them.

They are not considered street games. We did them in the summer at pool/beach clubs.

Greasy watermelon contest & diving for pennies. Was so much fun for kids in the late 60's & 70's.

[nuts2uiam]

Originally Posted by ANM1982

Ghost in a Graveyard (in which we insulted the next-door neighbor's mother-in-law, who thought we were yelling at her to "Go back to the graveyard")
Manhunt
Sardines
TV Guide
Cherry Drop
Kickball
Freeze Tag
Red Light, Green Light
Red Rover
Mother, May I
Puss in a Corner
Sick, Sicker, Dying, Dead
Spud

Got to ask. How do you play this? Does not sound like fun but......I will await your response.

[ANM1982]

Originally Posted by nuts2uiam

Got to ask. How do you play this? Does not sound like fun but......I will await your response.

It's a ball toss game.

Everyone starts by standing normally, and you toss a ball back and forth to each other. If you miss the ball, you have to cross your legs. If you miss the ball again, you have to stand with your feet as wide apart as they can go. The next position is on your knees, then Indian style, then finally, flat on your back. Each position is varying degrees of "sickness" (making it harder to catch the ball), and then if you miss it while you're lying down, you're dead and out of the game. The last person in the game wins.