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OK. Yeah, that was back in Brooklyn around and I was just about being allowed to go and not to stop. And there was a group of us at least, we found a lot of good things. We weren't playing handball, we'd be playing football in the street and in the school yard. We'd play basketball, softball, slackball, that was anything. We'd draw like a pitcher's mound with chalk on the street and then first and second base on each side, several feet away from the mound. And then there would be all play and then I'd take a spouting ball and you would stick to the bounce first and then the person at the mound would slap it in between the two bases and you'd be out at first. We'd play a lot of games and then I'd go to Coney Island. That was a little after steep waves. I went there a few times with my dad. I would take him down but when I was able to go there on my own with friends, we went to Wonder Wheel and rode the cyclone to the paper cars. First you would really stare, that wasn't something I wanted to do. I didn't even like being on steeple when I went with my dad. I thought that was dangerous and I think that probably brought it away. I went to Sea Bay a lot and there was fishing there. We did a lot. Every day I wonder how we had time to even go to school. There was so much I did. Of course, after I left there, I went to high school and my aunt. That came when I had to get more serious.