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Old 06-13-2008, 02:12 PM
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I have determined that one way to tell if someone has lived here a while is if he calls places by their old names. Two that I can think of around my area are:

A strip mall on Larkfield Road in East Northport used to have a drug store called Tick-Tock as an anchor tenant. It's been a CVS for many years but some old timers still call it Tick-Tock.

The shopping center on NY Avenue in Huntington that contains a Home Depot and NYS Motor Vehicle Department is still referred to by many as "Big H", a store that has not been there in at least 10 years.

Does anyone know of any other such places?
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Lol......who still calls Costco ......Price Club?
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If someone calls Stop and Shop Edwards...or even worse, Finast.

Genovese instead of Eckerd or what it is now, Rite Aid.
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Korvette's variety stores.
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Lol......who still calls Costco ......Price Club?

lol I'm guilty of that.
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Oh its still price club to me no matter what.

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Finast...haha I remember that. What is funny is that in New Hyde Park, where Finast was on Hillside Ave, and then Edwards, and now a super stop and Shop, through all the renovations and tenant changes, the fire map inside the store still says "Edwards" on the graphic. I randomly noticed it on my way out one day.

Do roads count? I call Route 135 the Seaford Oyster Bay Expressway but I have never seen a sign calling it that. I just always called it that. I have some friends that just call it 135.

Im guilty of calling Costco Price Club too
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it will always be the Big H. And I still say the A&P even though all the A&Ps were converted to Waldbaums.

i forgot about genovese drug stores! how could I...
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we call One Stop in Huntington "The fake 7-11" lol...it's so much easier to say One Stop...but the latter comes out of our mouths lol
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Guilty on the Price Club/ Costco...

The Stony Brook School (coed prep school) is known by old timers as the boys school.
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