ooo---This Email Scanned for Virus---ooo by ooo--- Norton Anti-Virus---ooo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ginny Carey" <Ginny.Carey@clerk.co.brevard.fl.us> To: "'Dorothy Borne'" <dotbnj@earthlink.net> Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 9:20 AM Subject: RE: [NJ-Memories] Re: Ice > I taught my granddaughter jacks and pick-up sticks, and for awhile, she > jumped rope. I always enjoyed sitting on the kitchen floor playing, and > wanted her to experience that. She is now 8 and in to other things. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dorothy Borne [mailto:dotbnj@earthlink.net] > Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 9:08 AM > To: NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [NJ-Memories] Re: Ice > > > It's a shame the young people today don't have these good memories we have. > All the games we played are obsolete now. Has anyone seen a child playing > jacks lately? How about hopscotch? Jump rope is practically non-existent. > No wonder the kids have a weight problem what with the fast food and lack of > exercise we had. > Dot > ooo---This Email Scanned for Virus---ooo > by > ooo--- Norton Anti-Virus---ooo > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <Tacy413408@aol.com> > To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 12:26 AM > Subject: [NJ-Memories] Re: Ice > > > > Dot, > > > > This one I did. The iceman's name was Hoppy and we would all yell Hoppy > give > > me some ice. He always gave us a nice junk. Of course, when we went to > an > > electric refrigerator that stopped. > > > > Pat > > > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go > to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

My grandchildren play hopscotch.My mom, before she passed away 4 years ago ,still got jacks in her Christmas stacking.She grew up in the Tacony section of northeast Philly,and adored the game of jacks. She always said "once a city kid,always a city kid". Jerilyn