Yeah marbles, brings back some fond memories, did you play as a youngster, I did me and my childhood friends all played during recess at school till around 4th or 6th grade! Here's the great looking medal I was bidding on yesterday, I didn't win but apparently others liked it as well as it sold for $77.99. Just sharing old memories, that's all! https://www.ebay.com/itm/2257348787...of1KUa%2BI%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc
Yeah. Old memories but I lost my marbles years ago or maybe they're in the basement?? I'll have to look some day along with my Coleco Football handheld game. Remember this too?:
Marbles and Shinny were the games we played. And, I learned math in my head. But, back then it was called Arithmetic.
I have fond memories of playing marble at recess time. I do not have any of my childhood marbles but have been able to acquire some here and there.
That’s cool. One of my favorite programs was Dirty Jobs and they did a piece on making marbles once. I had no idea how much work went into creating those little pieces of glass art.
As a kid probably up to the 5th or 6th grade we played marbles every day at recess and lunch no matter how cold or hot, only heavy rain stopped us. We only played for keeps. I remember these times as me being very good at marbles, possible my memory of this is based more of the way I want to remember, and not fact During this time they came out with a marble we at least called it a cat's eye. They were the popular one. We used to carry our marbles in drawstring bad from the bank. A lot of paperboys did their collections with these. I wonder if young kids still do this. I have a tendency to doubt it, would decrease their phone time.
I lived in Brooklyn and Long Island and no one I knew in either place played marbles. It that game more popular in a specific geographical area?
Marbles were a big past time in Western Nebraska. The way we played was to dig a hole(the pot) in the ground and then draw a line a distance from the pot.You would then determine how many marbles each player would put in the pot to play(5 upper10upperand so on) You then stood behind the pot and lagged your smallest steely(small ball bearings)to the line. The guy who was closest to the line got to go first and 2 closest second and so on. If you were first shooter you then took out you biggest steely and launched it at the pot. If your steely stayed in the pot you won all the marbles. If it hit in the pot but didn’t stay you got to keep any marbles you knocked out of the pot. Games could go on for hours. One time we had to throw your steely off the roof of the garage and have it roll into the pot to win. The older kids played for more marbles (100 upper was as high as I saw) Anyone else play this way?
I do remember playing in a similar manner and rules. We would call Onesies, twosies, threesies and so on for the number of marble played in one game and a challenger could call skootsies and or bootsies which had to do with the way a marble was moved during the game.
I find your statement quite interesting. We also played with slingshots but we made our own out of a tree branch and rubber from a bicycle inner tube. Anyone remember clackers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clackers
Not that old but still, I was playing marbles in the 1960's, great game taught kids how to win and lose and how to socialize, and check out that patina on the medal! Yeah I remember cat's eye's and steelies as well, oh and boulders! Carried my marbles in a bull durham tobacco sack!
Did someone say MARBLES? Now we're talking about something I know a lot about! Besides my beloved coins, marble collecting has become a real passion over the last 10 years or so. Inherited some oldies which got the 'bug' going. I am a long standing member of a similar forum but for marbles. I'd be happy to help anyone ID any marbles in your possession - just ask! You might have a few winners kicking, around and prices for good vintage specimens have sky-rocketed. I mainly collect early American transitional types, and machine mades from the early 1900s thru the 1930s golden era. Some are quite valuable.Here's just a sample of my collection - hope you enjoy! PS: Alurid - very nice collection of West Virginia Swirls (Alley/Ravenswood/Vitro/ Master, Heaton, etc.) Nice authentic medal fretboard, too bad you didn't snag it.
