A Blast from the Past. To all those born between 1930 and 1979. (Porter: sale, tenant)

[ClarkStreetKid]

And lately the only one I can remember.

[scammed1]

Originally Posted by ClarkStreetKid

Hey wait a minute, how could we forget the The Clay Cole Show on WPIX? Chuck McCann was also on that show.

Gosh, I sure do remember Clay Cole. It was one of my fav. programs.
I too cannot remember Eddie Lawrence, not one bit.
..and as for the young'un calling us old, Veterans maybe.. but not old.

[ClarkStreetKid]

Dang it, even Clay was lured to the evil land of NC.

Clay Cole is retired and lives on an island off the Cape Fear River on the Atlantic Ocean on the North Carolina coast.

The Cole Bin.
Clay's Cole Bin

[nancy thereader]

Whenever I hear about Cape Fear , I just think of my favorite old actor Robert Mitchum. They do not make those kinds of actors anymore.

[ClarkStreetKid]

That was an awesomely creepy movie.

[lisachristina]

do u remember a local tv studio on long island? I'm trying to find information on a children show taped live called "Captain Abhab" have u heard of it???

[LIcowgirl289]

Originally Posted by robiewan

thanks for this, i have been on vairous city-data forum researching my next relocation
grew up on long island and miss it from time to time.
this is my first visit to the NY-LI site - thanks for the memories
born West Islip 1970, Good Sam - moved to Florida in 1993 (after college in Philly)

Why oh why did so many of us move to FL - that's right, my stepdad took a job with the phone company. We grew up in West Islip, Hyman Ave to be exact. I remember riding down to the Grand Union on my bike, and the 5 & 10...remember those? Like one poster said, we rode our bikes everywhere, w/baseball cards in the spokes. McCall Ave and Hyman, we had a TON of friends either my age (born 1967) or my brother's (3 of them) 2 years older than me. No one alienated anyone, we all hung out. We stayed out until dark (when homework was finished) to play "kick the can" or "dead man's army man" - video games, what was that? All we wanted to do was be OUTSIDE when we got home from school. And Halloween, we were out all night trick or treating w/our pillow cases full of candy!!!! Don't even get me started on the 4th of July, nothing like it anywhere, especially as kids. Kids today have no clue how great we had it, and didn't have 1/2 o what they have access to.

[LIcowgirl289]

Originally Posted by I2MISSNY

That's funny, Ann1, because I, too, moved to Houston from Long Island, and can't wait to get back to New York. I can't seem to take the heat, and I miss the conveniences of living in NY. My youngest son, however, loves it here and will stay.

Wow, if this isn't a place for transplants in Houston who want to go back to NY. I'm putting the house up for sale and will be back by the 1st of the year, hopefully - nevermind the heat (it's the worst), but the people are truly different, especially if they grew up in an era when we did. Even though so much has changed, they truly have we NYkers pegged wrong down here in the South.

[LIcowgirl289]

Originally Posted by nancy thereader

Fcm, you are a walking encylopedia of television nostalgia!!!

He sure is...and even though I was born in '67, I remember many of those shows - not to mention, Chiller Theater...that show (when the hand came up to take the letters) scared the crap out of me!!!

[scammed1]

Well, I am so up on things today it took me this long to figure out that almost all the old tv shows and personalities we have mentioned throughout this great thread are posted on YOU TUBE. I spent hours looking at old excerpts from years gone by. You can search the name of the show or a star even old records. Talk about nostalgia.
Let us know what you watch.