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SPwiki
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The game reference YOU can help us build

Streetplay's mission is to document the great city games that we know and love. Over the years, we've wanted to allow our readers to collaborate with us, to make our knowledge base bigger and better. Now, technology has caught up with our desire and we're proud to announce the Streetplay Wiki (SPwiki for short).

Are there games you played in the street as a city youth? Are you a reasonably good writer with attention to detail? Sign up for a SPwiki account and help us make SPWiki the best web resource for urban games anyone can imagine.


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Martha Cooper photography
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Some of the best childhood play photography

We've assembled the Streetplay Galleries to present the work of professional artists who have documented the experience of play all over the world. Over the years, we've assembled some stunning exhibitions.

In this gallery, Fun in the Water, Martha Cooper spans the globe to bring us the fun of kids splashing around.


Featured articles


Contest winners: First kiss
The stories from our readers about their first kiss will make you laugh... and blush.


Streeplay photos: Ice cream
Images of what most any city kid lives for: the ice-cream man!


A Playful World: Philadelphia
The Playful World project documents the games and play of children from different places around the globe, in this case, Philadelphia. Please share the joyful aspects of our shared cultures.


Member spotlight: Bill Weintraub
A lot of our readers have shared their stories with us first-hand in our Member Spotlight section. Here, Bill Weintraub tells us about beating the big kids.

Streetplay postcards
Streetplay postcards
You can share Streetplay goodness via e-mail: just pick out one of the cool pictures and send it to a friend!
 

Site highlights

  • In Tribute: Steve Mercado, FDNY
    Steve Mercado, a leader in the stickball community, was one of the brave firefighters lost in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. This is our tribute to him.
  • Streetplay at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
    The Smithsonian Institution invited us to DC to introduce America to our favorite games. Read how it went!
  • Essays and Commentary
    We're often asked to comment upon the benefits kids get through unsupervised, ad hoc play. Here, we address the evaporation of such activity in modern times
  • Streetplay Cineplex Video!
    Throw some popcorn in the microwave, grab a jumbo-sized soda and watch street games in motion right on your computer!
  • Streetplay Links
    Maybe we're not Google, but we take a shot at listing some of our favorite play-related websites here.



Featured game: Hit the stick

Hit the stick
Hit the stick is one of the many games we cover in The Games section.

Bernie DeKoven's Junklog
Junkyard Sports site syndication

Treasure Hunt in Central London
We received the following annoucement from Dr. Robert Paul. It sounded like fun: Energetic couples pairs sought for amusing‘n’unique outdoor...

A Brief History of Bottle Trees
The Recycled Plastic Bottle Tree Hangings of Russia (http: www.deepfun.com 2007 10 recycled-plastic-bottle-tree-hangings.html), but of a reportedly totally...

Boxbasketracquetball
One of the things that makes this game so much fun is that it combines both hand-eye (using the racquets) and foot-eye (kicking the box) coordinationEquipment:One...

DIY Sports on YouTube
I've been doing a bit of youtube (http: youtube.com) -scouring of late, searching for candidates for the world's first Post-Apocalympics (http:...

Racquet Bowling
Racquet Bowling (http: www.youtube.com watch?v=OmI1MLQF27Q) is not actually the name of this particular Junkyard Sport. It's called Last Game? (http:...

See more in the Junkyard Sports section



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