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So I just read your post....and you might just be the person to answer this question. You mentioned the old General Store that was replaced by the A&P. On the opposite corner....the SW corner of 25a and Bread & Cheese Hollow...there used to be a bar/clambar "Shack" type place. It's now an empty lot.....but I can't seem to find anyone who can remember the name of this place...just that it was once there. Do you remember this?
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Originally Posted by phester
well, I stumbled upon this sight this morning and I've read to page 80!! Grew up in Kings Park/Fort Salonga area. Fun to read of all the bars and clubs and bands that have played....I tended bar at The Salty Dog for almost five years [1980-1985] so I probably served alot of you folks on this site. Also tended at the Park Bench['86-'88] in StonyBrook and wound up my career back in Huntington at New York Ave, ["89-'91] and then Meehans ['92-'93] Lots of great fun and nothing but memories now. I was wondering if anybody knew of, or remembers the 1/4 mile dragstrip that out-of-towners refered to as "country life".....back in the early 70's, rt. 25a in Fort Salonga would be a complete ghost town after 9pm. On the SE corner of 25a and Bread & Cheese Hollow Rd. was a field with a little general store [ in 1973 the general store was bulldozed and born was the A&P shopping center]... there was start/finish line painted on 25a and cars used to line up side by side down Bread and Cheese rd. waiting to turn onto 25a and make their run. We were just kids on our dirtbikes back then but those guys racing their cars were pretty serious. Could not imagine anything like that going on today. I think it was kept more of a guarded secret in amongst race fans because I don't recall 100's of people always showing up at these weekend races.....we called it the general store.....outsiders called it "country life"
Going to Carvel's was treat time. When we had friends come over my dad or mom would drive us down and we would stand there deciding for 5 minutes and always ended up with the same thing.
Always had the vanilla cone with the hard chocolate topping.
That was the "brown bonnet". The one here (Nesconset/St. James) still has them!
You are kidding right? I did not think people still did that. I stopped doing that in like 1993.
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Old Bar/Clambar/Restaurant in Fort Salonga
I did not think people still did that. I stopped doing that in like 1993.
