At any rate, Charlie played the clarinet and saxophone. Neighbors complained about the clarinet's loudness and they had to stop. Charlie found an old cheap broken clarinet in a shop and purchased it. Just out beyond the property of the White House there were a series of garages and a large space in front of them running out to Clayton Ave. This was the stage for many a great bottle cap games.
Bottle caps is a game like cork ball or what today is called fuzz ball.
The equipment was a broomstick and the bottle caps from beer bottles. These had cork inside the lid, and sailed neatly when thrown cap up. When through with the edges of the cap up they could be dangerous and really cut. Most games ruled out upside down caps. We all used to collect huge beer cases full of caps for our games.