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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 3
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 9:59 am: |    |
Jcole: Did you play in the 8th grade Powder Puff game? I don't remember you being a tomboy. |
Kellyroad
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Username: Kellyroad
Post Number: 308
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 10:05 am: | |
Curb ball on Eastwood or Redmond was OK. The curbs were curved so a to allow just the right trajectory. Saratoga was out of the question. Their curbs were squared off making it almost impossible to find a "sweet spot". Redmond was used often because it was a side street often times with open spaces. It was however a busier street. I introduced curb ball to my kids and the neighborhood kids about 15 yrs ago. They liked it but it was short lived..Too may organized sports and other distractions. Maybe if there were curb ball leagues and tournaments with official rules, equipment and uniforms it would last. LOL
By the way, the 7K kid can tell you that even with one on one competition singles were allowed (perhaps the rubber ball used was not as lively). The games would sometimes have too many "fakes" (pretending like your going for a homerun then dinking a single) which wasted a lot of time and got the ire of your competition.
(Message edited by kellyroad on April 08, 2008) |
Jcole
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Username: Jcole
Post Number: 66
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 10:18 am: | |
Yes, I did. I dislocated my knee when Bev (can't remember her last name) tackled me. I wasn't a real tomboy, but you had to act like one to hang out with the boys on my block. I was the only girl my age on the block until Dugan's moved in.I was a dyed-in-the-wool Barbie fan, first and foremost. |
Zitro
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Post Number: 4
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 10:25 am: | |
Jerzewski |
Jcole
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Username: Jcole
Post Number: 67
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 10:29 am: | |
You're right, Jerzewski.
I take it you were in my class? |
7andkelly
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Username: 7andkelly
Post Number: 52
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 10:32 am: | |
No Barbies for us manly boys!
Instead we had GI Joe, scores of green army men with weapons pointed or with land mine detectors at the ready. Some of us had Jeeps and artillery pieces. And we would mix in a few cowboy and Indian characters too because we could.
Set 'em up on the porch and let the war begin! |
Jcole
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Username: Jcole
Post Number: 68
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 10:37 am: | |
My GI Joe dated Barbie. He was studlier than Ken, with that glued on fuzz for hair and other, noticeably lacking, attributes. |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 5
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 11:07 am: | |
All 8 years as I recall |
Jcole
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Username: Jcole
Post Number: 70
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 11:11 am: | |
OK, can we play twenty questions? 
Are you male or female? |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 6
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 11:18 am: | |
Male |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 54
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 11:21 am: | |
Pretty sure Joe could beat the snot out of Ken.
But before we found out girls had cooties, it was acceptable to play "Sandbox", "Mother May I", "Red Light, Green Light", "Simon Says" and even "House" with girls. "Hop Scotch was out, and so was "Jump Rope", although I remember getting roped into some twirling duty for "Hi Ho Jolly Pepper". |
Jcole
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Username: Jcole
Post Number: 71
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 11:24 am: | |
Did you live north or south of 7 mile? Harper Woods or Detroit? |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 55
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 11:27 am: | |
Is your name Ortiz? |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 7
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 11:28 am: | |
North in the D |
Jcole
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Username: Jcole
Post Number: 72
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 11:28 am: | |
7&K,
For sure Joe could beat Ken bloody. He was a weeny, that's why I HAD a Joe doll.
On my block, we played army all the time, but I had to be the stupid nurse who dragged the soldiers out of the bushes after they were shot. We also played cowboys and indians, where I got to be tied to the stake throughout the whole game, so the cowboys could rescue me. Even then, you boys had ways of keeping the girls in check |
Jcole
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Post Number: 73
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 11:29 am: | |
Are you Jeff Ortiz? |
Jcole
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Username: Jcole
Post Number: 74
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 11:31 am: | |
If you are, I tortured you for six years following you around. never was there such a crush known to God or man |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 8
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 11:31 am: | |
Very good. Didn't take too many clues. 7andKelly got it first. |
Jcole
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Username: Jcole
Post Number: 75
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 11:34 am: | |
I see that now. Are you still in the Detroit area? Don't worry, I won't start walking by your house again if you are. |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 9
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 11:35 am: | |
LOL, I seem to recall |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 10
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 11:38 am: | |
You're too funny. Actually I live in Ames, Iowa. I couldn't take the threat the city was to my children. |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 56
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 11:42 am: | |
Zitro: It's probably too early to apply for a restraining order, but in the next couple of days, watch for a Blue Dodge Caravan with Michigan plates driving past your home every 10 minutes or so:-) |
Jcole
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Username: Jcole
Post Number: 76
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 11:45 am: | |
I've been through Iowa a couple times in the last few years. (I didn't know you were there, honest)My younger daughter lives in CO. and I've taken the train out a couple times. It's a pretty state, green and lush, but a far cry from Detroit.
So glad to know you're doing well.
You were in the choir until at least 6th grade, weren't you? |
Jcole
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Username: Jcole
Post Number: 77
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 11:48 am: | |
I had a real thing for choir boys. I switched my stalking proclivities from you to Mike Sawicki in 7th grade.That lasted a couple years, at least. May have been a precurser to my affection for rock stars
(Message edited by jcole on April 08, 2008) |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 57
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 11:52 am: | |
Philip's older brother |
Jcole
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Username: Jcole
Post Number: 79
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 11:57 am: | |
yep, Philip and Matt were his younger sibs. |
Kellyroad
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Username: Kellyroad
Post Number: 311
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 11:57 am: | |
7 and Kelly Kid: to clarify: Bill and Catherine Sind did live next door. Bill's brother Joe lived on Saratoga and Redmond (kids, Joe, Jeanie, Marty etc) Bill and Catherine's son (the police officer) lived on Lindhurst near Rex (Lisa, Paula, Jackie and Billy were his kids who often visited the grandparents next door to us)
The answer to the snowball trivia was Ed Aubrey. I believe Delores still resides in St. Clair Shores. Steve is still in California, and Joyce resides in the local area but not sure. The Aubreys were a great Eastwood family. My family reminisces about them fondly. |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 11
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 12:00 pm: | |
Ames is a college town (Iowa State) it not too much unlike Ann Arbor in many ways. Just over 50,000 pop. when college is in session. We get a break for few months in the summer with the traffic. People are just about the same though.
7andkelly: Michigan plates stick out like a sore thumb around here so, no worry :-) |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 58
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 12:03 pm: | |
Joe's youngest was Cathy, about a year younger than Marty. SJ Class of '71 likely. |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 59
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 12:06 pm: | |
Looks like Michigan's "thumb" is going to be hurting for some time now. If you look at a U.S. map, it kind of looks like were all looking to hitch a ride out of here! |