spaldeens!

sagehen sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM
Sun Aug 1 22:40:30 UTC 2004


 In Geoff Nathan's post:
>
 >Margaret Winters reports that she learned the 'One, two three O'Leary'
version from her mother, which antedates it to the early twenties.  She
notes that in NYC people used 'spaldeens'<.........
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Haven't heard that word for more than sixty years!  It was a corruption of
Spaulding, I suppose. A mfr. of sports equipment.
A. Murie



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