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Originally Posted by zukes
As we have discussed before, we went to Beddington Heights together, though I think you are a year or two older than me. I lived on Berwick Dr at the corner of Berwick Rd. and the end of that street was Berkshire Rd and then farm when I moved there.
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Yup - and a big part of Beddington Heights was "marble season". Every spring we would all take our marbles to school in our Crown Royal bags and have at it. Marbles were banned from our school for a brief time after a fight erupted over a game involving a King Kong Steely (which in reality was nothing more than a big ball bearing but at our school it represented the heavyweight championship of marbles).
The chap that had the King Kong Steely always demanded you played him 5:1 odds - he would just have to hit you once, you had to hit him 5 times. I lost my best marble in such a game. Anyhoo he finally lost it to another kid but refused to relinquish the marble - leading to a near brawl. Marbles were banned from our school and a letter was sent home to parents.