"Back in the Bronx" book

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BACK IN THE BRONX:
CELEBRATING THE EXPERIENCE OF GROWING UP AND LIVING IN THE BRONX
(www.backinthebronx.com)
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     This book turned up at the local Barnes & Noble booksellers.  It's a
collection of the first three volumes (12 issues total) of the periodical
BACK IN THE BRONX.  Dates (for the book and for the issues themselves) are
missing, as is the price of the book ($34.95).  Is it worth $35 to find
William Safire's name on their Bronx High School Honor Roll?
     There's a Jahn's Ice Cream menu (1950s) that features its popular "The
Kitchen Sink--Everything else but-serves four to six."  I don't know when the
item was first introduced.  The Jahn's Ice Cream "kitchen sink" is not in the
RHHDAS.
     There are two word lists.
     From Vol. I, Issue III, pg. 12:

_198th St, Dictionary_
_Proverbs & Sayings_
Hindoo: (a do-over while playing ball)
Roly Poly: you roll the ball after you catch it and try to hit the stick ball
stick on the ground
The New Fields:  The Bronx baseball fields
Sidewalk Hockey:  wearing out your shoes
Penny in a Loafer Shoe:  The 1940's macho look
A Federal:  lunch at Clinton High School--Ugh!
Ring-A Leevio:  Oh! to run like that again
Kick the Can:  not your rear end--a soda can
3 Steps to Germany:  Glad 198th St. wasn't so wide
Skelly:  game played on sidewalk with bottlecaps
A Nuggie:  a shot in the head with your knuckles
Play Knucks:  card game--bleed--blood--ouch!
Lido Theatre:  where Sambo was King Usher
King & Queen:  hitting ball against wall
Off the Point: hitting ball off point; baseball
Egg Cream:  only Sarah, George and the Bronx can do it
A Lariet:  a strip of long paper on a string and you swing it around

     From Vol. III, Issue IX, pg. 10:

_Proverbs & Sayings_
1. Chinese Checkers...A game played on a board shaped like a star with marbles
2. Immies...Another name for marbles
3. Saddle Shoes...White and black shoes; worn by both boys and girls
4. Saddle Stitch...White stitching down the side of boys pants
5. Peg Pants...Pants tapered at the cuffs
6. Bells/Bell bottoms...Pants wide at the bottom
7. A Black & White Soda...A Chocolate ice cream soda w/Vanilla ice cream
8. Creamsicle...Vanilla ice cream inside orange ice on a stick
9. Frappe...What we called an ice cream sundae in the Bronx
10. Cockamamy...Decals of fruit on refrigerators or kitchen cabinets
11. Oil Cloth...What we used to call linoleum (Floor covering)
12. Parlor...Living Room
13. Lime Ricky...Lemon & Lime soda w/a cherry in it served in a tall slim
glass
14. Charlotte Russe...Sponge cake in a cylindrical body of cardboard with a
lot of whipped cream and as you eat it, you push it up from the bottom
15. Mello Roll...Ice cream wrapped in a cylindrical shape that you peeled off
the wrapper and pushed in a special mello roll cone
16. Pitching Pennies...Throw pennies against the wall; the furthest one
thrown wins
17. Cats Cradle...A game played with string (Mostly by girls)
18. Flipping Cards..lst person flips 3 or 4 baseball cards; If 2nd person
matches his flips, he wins
19. Slug or Chinese Handball...Ball must hit ground than wall: King, Queen,
Jack were positions
20. Knock Hockey...Played on a table in after-school centers
21. Curb Ball...Hit the ball off the curb, the four corners were the bases
22. Iron Tag...One person was "it", you had to run and touch something metal
before you got tagged or you wouldn't be "it"
23. Land..Draw a square in the dirt, then throw a penknife in the dirt and
carve up the land
24. Statues...Someone would count and then say freeze and you would make a
pose like a statue
25.  Haggies or No Haggies...When someone bought a box of candy, you would
yell haggies and he would have to share with you unless that person had
shouted no haggies first

    "Haggies" is, unfortunately, not in DARE.  It is the rare term that's not
found on ANY of my search engines (Nexis, Dow Jones, Alta Vista, Lycos,
Infoseek, Deja News, et al.).  Someone from the Bronx had once asked me about
"haggies."