Dictum Ct was a wonderful place to grow up, we were a few hundred feet from the water, a few blocks from the park. We had a bunch of kids who were always up to play Stick ball, we had our own field in the sand between the Tamaqua and the Civic Club. We'd chip in 10 cents a piece to buy a few "Spauldeens", a few kids had bats made from a broomstick some even bought the new factory made Sticks for about 50 cents. We played there mostly during the week and we always had spectators watching us like it was a Dodgers-Giants game. One of these spectators was Mr Lombardo a retired cop who had a box seat on his back stoop then we had the regulars at the Civic Club taking up a seat by each window. One guy sat at the window behind home plate and called balls and strikes for us, we only played pitch in stick ball on that field. We had ground rules too, anything over the peak of the Tamaqua was a home run if it just hit off the lower roof it was a double. The big problem we had was the water being 50 feet off first base so a lot of balls had to be retrieved from the water with a crab net. We had to find another place to play on weekends because "our field" was filled with cars from the fisherman, we tried putting up no parking signs but that didn't work. Today I just touched on a few highlights of growing up on Dictum Ct., next time we'll go a bit deeper until then keep the memories coming.
BobC 84 Dictum Ct
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