As to the game of bottle caps, my fingernails got blue from flicking upside  
down caps along asphalt in games designed in chalk to land in squares, 
diamonds  and on lines. Now that I think about it, these were probably the bottle 
caps  that got the pennies in wax, which were attempts at gaining better control. 
 Strangely enough, all the schools outlawed bottle caps in the 1950s. Of 
course,  outlawed games were all the rage in those days. Same with marbles and Pez 
 machines. I can imagine a lot of teachers with burgeoning pockets full of  
marbles, bottle caps and Pez machines at the end of a day.
 
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.