Kids games

[S.A. Boggs]

What was your favorite child hood game[s]?
Sam

[togor]

played a lot of baseball, tackle football and basketball in the neighborhood. Of the 3, tackle football was always the most satisfying. Gotta watch that frozen ground though. Games of "kick the can" were fun too. Girls could play that.

[sid]

Monopoly. All the kids in our neighborhood enjoyed this.

[bdm]

we played baseball football and basketball and of course Monopoly.We watched the movie The Great Escape and ended up digging a tunnel from my back yard fort to my friends fort about 100 yds using pallet lumber from a local factory to sure up the tunnel.When my dad found the tunnel he was mad.I am old no cell phones computers a 10" black and white TV a much better time in the 50s and 60s

[Vern Humphrey]

Squirrel and deer hunting. Nowadays there is also Turkey and Black Bear in Arkansas. And in college I started Skydiving.

[JB White]

Played touch football in the street using alley to alley as end zones.
Softball in the street (Chicago Clincher) using storm drain covers as bases.
Street hockey using homemade nets from lumber scraps and chicken wire.
Fast pitch: strike zone painted on a wall wherever we could find an empty parking lot or a clear zone along the railroad tracks.
Climbing: Who could conquer the factory rooftops and who could scale the coal yard fences etc..
Jumping: Climb onto a garage roof and leap from one to the other to see who could make it down the entire block (1/8 of a mile).
Free "L" rides. Scaling up and over the outside of the elevated CTA train platforms bypassing the fare collector at street level.