- A. C. Gilbert Chemistry Sets
- A. C. Gilbert Erector Sets
- Board
Games:
- Candy
Land
- Checkers
- Chinese Marbles
- Monopoly
- Mr.
Ree
- Parcheesi
- 'Bobby Soxs'
- Building
'Leaf Houses' in Bancroft Parkway
- Black & White
Saddlestrap shoes
- Burning "PIC's"
in your car at the drive-ins.
- Buying the
green baby box turtles
- Cans & String
Telephones
- Catching 'Lightning
Bugs' and collecting them in jars
- Crystal Radio
Sets
- Driving to
Hoopes Dam & Valley Garden Park on Sundays
- Driving to
Newark seemed like an all-day trip!
- Flipping Baseball
cards
- Hopping automobiles
and trolley cars with your sled in the snow
- Ice Skating on a pond near Hansen's
Sinclair on Gov. Printz Blvd.
- Inviting all
the kids on your block to your Birthday Party and play
'Spin the Bottle' and 'Pin the Tail On the Donkey'
- Lighting 'Punk
Sticks' and Cattails at night
- Lincoln Logs
- Making 'Scooters'
from skates and orange crates
- Mexican Jumping
Beans
- Mounting a
playing card on your bike so the spokes would create
a 'motor sound'
- Neighborhood
Block Games:
- Buck, Buck
How Many Horns are Up
- Giant Step
- Hide 'n
Seek
- King of
the Castle
- Left Hand
Out
- Mother May
I?
- Red Light
- Relievio "Olly-Olly"
- Simon Says
- Paper Dolls
- 'Penny Loafers'
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- Playing:
- Army
- Badminton
- Ball games
against a wall
- Cowboys &
Indians
- Croquet
- Curb Ball
- Hopscotch
- Horseshoes
- Jacks (Jack & the
ball)
- Jump Rope
- Double Dutch
- Kick the Can
- Marbles
- Pick Up Sticks'
on the front porch
- Quoits
- Stick
Ball
- Tether Ball
- Territory
(with your pocket knife)
- 'Wire Ball'
using the utility wires
- Pogo Sticks
- Printz Roller-Way,
7006 Gov. Printz Blvd.
- Pushmobiles
- Roller Skating
- Sitting on
the curb and try to name the next passing car
model and year
- Sledding on "Monkey
Hill " near the Wilmington Zoo
- Sledding on
Banning Street
- Sledding, playing
baseball & horseshoes, swinging and watching men
play checkers in Woodlawn Park
- Swimming at
Head Gates, Big Baby & Second
Dam
- Swimming at
'The Sand Pitt'
- Swimming at
the Shellpot Creek Dam
- Tinker Toys
- 'Twin Lakes'
on Kennett Pike for ice skating
- Wearing 'Dog
Collars' on you ankles to show you were 'Going
Steady'.
- 'White Bucks'
- 'Whip' ride
trucks that went into the neighborhoods
- Zoo-Bee Land
(a very popular night spot hangout in the 60's - secluded
in the hills of Montchanin)
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