When I was kid, we played ball in the street. We skated on the ice on the street in the winter.
The cops would come and tell us go to the park, but we said it was too far.
Those were some great street soft ball games.
Our small town had 1 park. It was A couple of miles away from our house so we played all up and down the streets. The whole neighborhood was our playground.
Wow, ice skating in the street! Lucky!
My son when little so wanted to skate outside in our yard, showed me from a catalog a plastic “pond” you could buy for ice skating. Fill it up with the hose, voila, the next morning you have your own rink!!! Had to tell him that we wouldn’t get much ice even if it dropped down into the 50s at night...