Does anyone remember playing hopscotch or marbles too?
Hopscotch fairly frequently, and occasionally played marbles. We’d chalk the hopscotch board on the sidewalk (or in the street—we lived on a street that was only 3 blocks long, and that didn’t go through to many major road, so the only traffic was from people who lived there). The marbles ring was strictly sidewalk. I think the marbles game didn’t take off because no one wanted to have to give up their marbles! We also spent what seemed like hours on summer evenings, jumping rope (with two adults or older kids doing the turning). There were games of hide and seek, tag, freeze tag, flying statues, Red Rover… I was youngest, and my older brother and sister pretty much were too big to want to participate, but there were 5 kids across the street, and 2 more families with several more kinds in one direction, 2 more in the other direction. The games would range in yards all over the neighborhood, and tag or freeze tag games could have 10 to 15 participants on summer nights. This would have b
