Marbles. I lost mine years ago. Well, truth be told, I flung them out of a long sock packed full, onto the playground of Jefferson Elementary in Pullman when I was 10. Clearies, aggies, boulders, cats eyes, popeyes, steelies and more. Flying through the air like shot from a clown's shotgun. Kids rushing and running and scooping them up. It was my last day there before we moved to Bellevue and I was leaving behind a gift to the schoolyard on which I wasted many recesses playing marbles with my peers. Anyway, so I've been decorating my little studio, and buying cool cheap crap from Ikea and putting up a few of my favorite prints from home and the place is looking damn fine, a bit spare but classy, and so it hits me the other day how cool a little glass bowl full of antique marbles would look/TUBOB. More here (scroll down)
Question: Did you play marbles, jacks, or any other game as a kid that no longer is in vogue?
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.
Jefferson Elementary in Pullman when I was 10. Clearies, aggies, boulders, cats eyes, popeyes, steelies and more. Flying through the air like shot from a clown's shotgun. Kids rushing and running and scooping them up. It was my last day there before we moved to Bellevue and I was leaving behind a gift to the schoolyard on which I wasted many recesses playing marbles with my peers. Anyway, so I've been decorating my little studio, and buying cool cheap crap from Ikea and putting up a few of my favorite prints from home and the place is looking damn fine, a bit spare but classy, and so it hits me the other day how cool a little glass bowl full of antique marbles would look/TUBOB. More here (scroll down)
