You Know You're From Long Island When... (Islip, New Rochelle: salaries, horse)

[sheena12]

More stores from the past - Great Eastern in Jericho - I think there's a Marshalls there now
Mays in Levittown
someplace called Daveega - I may have it spelled wrong
TSS with those strange escalators
Gensell's furniture in Mineola.
Mid Island Plaza in Hicksville - they had a Merry Go Round
they also had a Gertz

[ny2fla]

Originally Posted by 'phank

OK, speaking of cheap stores from the past, I remember a store, on West Main St., Patchogue, called Two Guys. It was dark, had wood plank floors and, if I remember correctly, a theater-type marquee and lights at the entrance. I have fond memories of running around the display tables there as a little kid, bored, as usual, with having to go shopping with my mother. The tables were at my eye level at the time. I ran into a corner, almost "pokin' my eye out," as moms so universally warn. I guess it ended that shopping trip. Sorry, Mom.
Ricky's 15 cent hamburgers! I can still taste the mustard and those great pickles! They were served in a wax paper wrap. It was good for my parents, who didn't have a lot of money. It was a real treat for my sisters and I. That was before we even heard of McDonald's. Sometime after that was Carrol's, which became Burger King. Wow, that's a long time ago!
How about walking around Main and Ocean avenue, smelling whatever was in the ovens at the bakery? Rice pudding at the Skyliner Diner? NY style thin cheese pizza at the Rt. 112 near Medford? Food and fun at the space-age Whirl-Inn with the great kids rides? My favorite was the helicopter. That was next to the building supply store with the robot-like mascot called, what else...Bill Ding! MMMMM!!!!!
Sorry, been living off The Island for a few decades! I wonder if anyone remembers that firehouse-themed restaurant, I think beyond Coram, maybe on Rt. 25 or 25A? How about Gene's, out toward Westhampton, a roadside place with some of the best eats around - the "Meanwhile-back-at-the-ranch" and the "Dagmar Blast" sandwiches, among others. Let me know when they invent that time machine. I know where I'm going!
I'm getting hungry...thanks for the memories!

Two Guys.....Naturally

[felixtibs]

Uh how about the Commack Flea Market. Where else could one get ninja stars and obscene t-shirts prior to going roller skating next store!

[1nevets]

Originally Posted by PEGGYDOUGAN

was it not on the My Father's Place tape??? don't you have that? (from WLIR)

I still miss WLIR. What ever happened to those DJ's, Larry the Duck, Malibu Sue and the rest?

[1nevets]

Originally Posted by lynnsprufera

How about Swift Kick and the Mad Hatter & Ladies Nights all around town.

My first club was Spize on 110. Someone told me it's now a strip club.

[JOE BASSPLAYER]

Originally Posted by sheena12

More stores from the past - Great Eastern in Jericho - I think there's a Marshalls there now
Mays in Levittown
someplace called Daveega - I may have it spelled wrong
TSS with those strange escalators
Gensell's furniture in Mineola.
Mid Island Plaza in Hicksville - they had a Merry Go Round
they also had a Gertz

'Sands Salvage' in Brentwood

[41Willys]

Originally Posted by OhBeeHave

There was a restaurant on 25A in Stony Brook called the Station House which had a fire house theme. Burned down quite a while ago.

LOL!!!!! Kinda funny, no?

[LIGuyandGal]

Don't know if it was already posted, but some places I remember from my younger days:
Flea Market at Roosevelt Raceway
Wolfie's and the Rusty Scupper in Westbury
Beefsteak Charlie's
Westbury Drive-In
40 West in Jericho
Cruising 'the Pike' (parking lot of Tri-County Fleamarket on Hempstead Turnpike)
Sheridan Bowling Alley in Mineola

[nancy thereader]

The Mineola Fair.... with tents, livestock and 4 H contests. Just like "Charlottes Web", really.

[JPGRONVOLD]

Tell me more about The Royal Viking Smorgasbord my uncle used to own it.